Rewriting the Technical Interview, by Kyle Kingsbury.
Inside the HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can’t even add, Part 2, by Ken Shirriff.
Note-writing livestream, by Andy Matuschak. (His notes.)
DuckDB is an embeddable SQL OLAP database management system.
sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector.
name-the-biggest-number in Coq.
Time in the Danish Realm, six different time zones.
BlindSide allows attackers to “hack blind” in the Spectre era. That is, given a simple buffer overflow in the kernel and no additional info leak vulnerability, BlindSide can mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation.
Raccoon is a timing vulnerability in the TLS specification, related to Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.
A Time Leap Challenge for SAT-Solving, by Johannes K. Fichte, Markus Hecher, and Stefan Szeider. “We compare the impact of hardware advancement and algorithm advancement for SAT-solving over the last two decades. In particular, we compare 20-year-old SAT-solvers on new computer hardware with modern SAT-solvers on 20-year-old hardware.”
Entangelement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox, by Geoffrey Penington.
AVIF has landed, a new image format derived from the keyframes of AV1 video.
Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards, by Ben Cox.
FVWM 3, the successor to fvwm2.
RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users
The Sound of Silence: Mining Security Vulnerabilities from Secret Integration Channels in Open-Source Projects, by Ralf Ramsauer, Lukas Bulwahn, Daniel Lohmann, and Wolfgang Mauerer.
UMASH: a fast and universal enough hash
Chasing the Tail of the Gaussian (cont’d), by John Baez.
WebWormhole creates ephemeral pipes between computers to send files or other data. Works in the browser!
ZzFXM, a tiny JavaScript music renderer for ZzFX.
Notes On Making Cola (2005), by Richard Grove.
The IKEA catalogue through the ages
Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches, with help of Computer Vision!