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Cool project. Feels like writing a C compiler in Zig aligns nicely with the old "maintain it in Zig" idea that was part of Zig's early value proposition. Is that still considered a…

I know this is satire, but I would wish to see something like this for liberating proprietary & closed-source hardware drivers.

Lego is one of those companies that is simultaneously amazing and kind of sucks. On one hand the core product is incredible. The tolerances on the bricks are micrometer-level preci…

That's not how SMTP reputation scoring works. Even in IPv4 per-IP reputation stopped being sufficient many years ago because bulk senders churn pools and rotate addresses. Modern s…

>But I do think s-expressions are an improvement over HTML in certain scenarios. I agree. S expressions are a data interchange format. HTML is a markup language. They solve differe…

This seems similar to _hyperscript, except it uses custom tags instead of the "_" attribute. I'm not sure which approach is better, but personally, I prefer keeping the same docume…

Not really. BLAKE3 isn’t a reduced-round tweak of BLAKE2 like K12 is for Keccak. It's a different construction that still meets its full security target. K12 and TurboSHAKE on the …

Honestly, I'm skeptical of the whole Keccak-derived ecosystem. The reduced-rounds variants like K12 and TurboShake are trading a conservative security margin for speed, which kinda…

One of the reasons why I'm using OpenBSD is because it passes what I think of as a litmus test for FLOSS software: can I build the whole thing from scratch, in a short time and wit…

From the submission title I expected some kind of chorded keyboard. This is just a tiny regular keyboard. What a bummer. This reminds me how I once spend months trying to track dow…

Any Forth system at it's core is essentially a stack-based virtual machine with a reprogrammable high-level assembler and a REPL. Some Forths use direct or indirect threading, othe…

I get the appeal of the 512KB Club. Most modern websites are bloat, slow and a privacy nightmare. I even get the nerdy thrill of fitting an entire website into a single IP packet, …

The author is deeply misguided and clearly frustrated. The claim that the GPL can't be enforced is simply wrong. GPL violations are regularly challenged in court and through commun…