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strong cryptography makes the world a safer place

Quoting octra (@octra)

in 1997, a message encrypted with 56-bit DES (data encryption standard at the time) was broken in 11 weeks using thousands of internet-connected volunteer computers…

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A deep dive into how CRDT-powered local-first apps track, merge, and sync every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE inside SQLite.

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"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.

High-performance data engine for AI and multimodal workloads. Process images, audio, video, and structured data at any scale - Eventual-Inc/Daft

OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.

Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that makes it possible to reset even a complex sequence of motion

Lambda calculus is for wimps. Real programmers use combinatory logic.

I read a good post by one of the authors of the Isabelle theorem prover, that got me thinking. The author, Lawrence Paulson, observed that most math proofs are trivial, but writing them (preferably with a proof assistant) is a worthwhile activity, for reasons…

A guide on building a simple Linux distribution from scratch. Detailed guide on building the kernel and the init process. Finally, a little distribution is built with u-root that is capable of connecting to the Internet.