Wesley A. Clark, Made Computing Personal, Dies at 88

Breaking Symmetric Cryptosystems using Quantum Period Finding, by Marc Kaplan, Gaëtan Leurent, Anthony Leverrier, and María Naya-Plasencia. “In this paper, we consider attacks where an adversary can query an oracle implementing a cryptographic primitive in a quantum superposition of different states. … ]e e show that the most widely used modes of operation for authentication and authenticated encryption (e.g. CBC-MAC, PMAC, GMAC, GCM, and OCB) are completely broken in this security model.”

A Natural Prime-Generating Recurrence, by Eric S. Rowland (2008). “For the sequence defined by a(n) = a(n-1) + gcd(n,a(n-1)) with a(1) = 7 we prove that a(n) - a(n-1) takes on only 1’s and primes, making this recurrence a rare ‘naturally occurring’ generator of primes.”

Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions

Cool Graphs of Implicit Equations, nifty.

Keepalive, permanent outdoor installation by Aram Bartholl.

Weanarisch Wiad Wödsproch im World Wide Web

The MetaFilter gopher server is back

Quotation marks in Europe

2D-Brille

Twitter’s missing manual

Introducing the B3 JIT Compiler, the new WebKit JIT backend.

How I Vim, interviews with heavy Vim users.

Bolt is a pure Go key/value store inspired by Howard Chu’s LMDB project.

Which Clang Warning Is Generating This Message?

John Cage Computer Programs

sike mama, Sebastian Morr’s translation of Andy Weir’s short story “The Egg” into Toki Pona.

Do Artists Need Websites? This.

New 3D Calligraphy Exercises by Tolga Girgin

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

htop 2.0, now also runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X without emulation layers!

BPF Compiler Collection (BCC), a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs using eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filters).

List of IPython/Jupyter Notebooks by Peter Norvig.

Cyclotomic polynomials and nonstandard dice, by Joseph A. Gallian and David J. Rusin. “The original problem was to find all possible ways to label cubes with positive integers so that the cubes, when thrown simultaneously, will yield the same sum totals with the same frequency as ordinary dice labelled 1 through 6. We investigate the analogous problem for dice, each with labels.”

Wired Style: A Linguist Explains Vintage Internet Slang

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch, an online interactive adventure.

Kitchen and Backyard, by Liza Lou. “What you’ll see in the pictures below is actually a real life-size kitchen, only it’s covered entirely in millions of glass beads.”

Why Ghana Started a Space Program

Fractal Jigsaw Puzzle

Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest, quite impressive!

The ARM1 processor’s flags, reverse engineered, by Ken Shirriff.

I am a puts debuggerer, by tenderlove.

ppx_let: a ppx rewriter for monadic and applicative let bindings and match statements, by Jane Street.

The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. You can run them now in DOSBOX in your browser!

The Oldschool PC Font Resource, 81 classic type faces.

5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus, why not.

Große Zahlen: Millionen unserer Vorfahren, “Und da fragt man sich doch, welche Freiheiten Pretzell denn meinen könnte, für die Millionen Deutsche gestorben seien.”

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88, RIP.

Minsky The Theorist, Marvin Minsky’s contributions to complexity theory.

RFC7748: Elliptic Curves for Security, finally published! Specifies Curve25519 and Curve448.

AlphaGo, mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. By Google DeepMind. “AlphaGo won over 99% of games against the strongest other Go programs. It also defeated the human European champion by 5–0 in tournament games.”

Conditional instructions in the ARM1 processor, reverse engineered, by Ken Shirriff.

Tcl in Javascript, why not.

The Magic Wand Throughout Art History, PNSFW.

Gender of the Night