Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes, finally!

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres. “T]hhe acronym “TESCREAL” denotes “transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism”.

A low-level look at A-normal form, by William J. Bowman.

SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL, by Jeff Shute, Shannon Bales, Matthew Brown, Jean-Daniel Browne, Brandon Dolphin, Romit Kudtarkar, Andrey Litvinov, Jingchi Ma, John Morcos, Michael Shen, David Wilhite, Xi Wu, and Lulan Yu. Seems like a decent idea.

The GhostWrite vulnerability affects the T-Head XuanTie C910 RISC-V CPU. “This vulnerability allows unprivileged attackers, even those with limited access, to read and write any part of the computer’s memory and to control peripheral devices like network cards.”

Debugging a rustc segfault on illumos, by Rain.

SKINT is a portable interpreter for the R7RS Scheme programming language.

GLIM is a set of GRUB configuration files to turn a simple memory stick into being able to boot many Linux live environments.

Typical, data interchange with algebraic data types. “Typical can be compared to Protocol Buffers and Apache Thrift. The main difference is that Typical has a more modern type system based on algebraic data types, emphasizing a safer programming style with non-nullable types and exhaustive pattern matching.”

GCRA: leaky buckets without the buckets, by Tony Finch. An easy way to do rate-limiting.

rpdf makes working with PDF annotions super easy! It can merge annotations from multiple files, some show statistics (stats) or strip specific (or all) annotations.

Stitch is a minimal grep-based CLI note-managing system.

Yon is a little UI for knowledge, using a Acme-like interface in the Browser.

Planning Weekly Workouts in 100 lines of Haskell, by Rodrigo Mesquita.

The Dying Computer Museum, by Jason Scott.

How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?, by Dan Luu.