I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's…

When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die, implemented in a straightforward, cost-e...

A simple RGB colour guessing game.

I wrote 84 new matmul kernels to improve llamafile CPU performance.

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QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.

CityGaussians realize high-quality and real-time rendering of large-scale scenes across vastly different scales.

A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.

I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. For the last five releases of GCC, I've been working on -fanalyzer, a static analysis pass that tries to identify various problems at

Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.

Designing a modern pulse compression radar that uses digital signal processing.

Preface In October 2023 I learned about HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack, dubbed “the largest DDoS attack to date”. I didn’t have deep knowledge of HTTP/2 back then. I knew its basics like frames or HPACK but I was focusing more on HTTP/1.1 protocol and programming…

The Great American Rail-Trail map shows the route that connects 150+ existing rail-trails spanning more than 3,700 miles.

A former University of Iowa Hospital employee pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he had been living under another man's identity since 1988, causing the other man to be falsely imprisoned for identity theft and sent to a mental hospital.

I’m often asked to edit friends’ or coworkers’ writing, anything from emails to short stories to documentation. Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve…

WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows - maharmstone/btrfs

Has any processor ever implemented an integer square root instruction? Obviously, floating-point square root instructions are quite common, but I've never seen one specifically for integers.
One cl...

Transformer-based language models spread FLOPs uniformly across input sequences. In this work we demonstrate that transformers can instead learn to dynamically allocate FLOPs (or compute) to...