Learning a few things about running SQLite

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains,A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

I started a “dirt notebook”

I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...

Regressive JPEGs

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

KO | EN I still have a netbook I bought back in 2009. The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE has an Intel Atom N280 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The Atom N series was Intel’s line of cheap, low-performance CPUs for netbooks. The chip has 56KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache, and its clock speed is 1.667GHz. Compare that ...

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

Vāgdhenu: a meter-aware Sanskrit śloka-to-chant text-to-speech system. Prof. Prathosh A P, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

Conditional layer creation in the layer based SVG engine

Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld

OpenStrike is out — classic BSP maps, bots, tracers, and a Solid JSX HUD holding a locked 60 FPS on a real Sony PSP: 333 MHz, 32 MB, no shaders. A field guide for JavaScript developers to how it works: rules and HUD in TypeScript on QuickJS, a bundler for 1999's geometry, and a 16.7 ms budget with receipts.

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

Free DIY online tool to generate 3D-printable solder paste stencils from your Gerber files. Convert Gerber to STL/3MF for FDM 3D printing at home. Compatible with KiCad, Eagle, Altium. Free PCB stencil generator for SMD/SMT reflow soldering.

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

We’re expanding our team and hiring a product engineer: - Experience of understanding user / product requirements and building it right. - Understands distributed systems and why production is different from a code repository. - Has all the energy and enthusiasm to hustle. - Is in Bangalore or is ok to move to Bangalore. Assignment link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zrl7VgU11WYikLYWBcrH1Ufo7A4-sXO2lO2Qn3d-h1g/edit?usp=sharing

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Recommended reading 1.4 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.5 Hugepages 1.6 A note on benchmarking 1.7 Cache lines 1.8 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization 2.3 Trailing zeros 2.4 Popcount 2.5 Manual SIMD 3 Optimizing the search 3.1 Batching 3.2 Prefetching 3.3 Pointer arithmetic 3.3.1 Up-front splat 3.3.2 Byte-based pointers 3.3.3 The final version 3.4 Skip prefetch 3.5 Interleave 4 Optimizing the tree layout 4.1 Left-tree 4.2 Memory layouts 4.3 Node size \(B=15\) 4.3.1 Data structure size 4.4 Summary 5 Prefix partitioning 5.1 Full layout 5.2 Compact subtrees 5.3 The best of both: compact first level 5.4 Overlap

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

Independent IoT security research, vulnerability disclosures, and PoCs focusing on firmware analysis, hardware interfaces, and cryptographic flaws. - IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa_EC71.md at main · BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public

Lego building instructions through time