Software Engineering Hacker News

Chaosnet

A discussion on Chaosnet, likely referring to an experimental or unconventional networking protocol.

Other Hacker News

Not mine, but it's a website where you can use a segment display

A website providing an interactive simulation of a segment display.

Open Source Phoronix

OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000

OpenJPH 0.28 introduces AVX2 optimizations, significantly increasing JPEG2000 high-throughput encoding and decoding speeds.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Deconstructing Datalog

A deep dive into the mechanics and conceptual framework of Datalog, a declarative logic programming language.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

repo-slopscore: Detecting AI/LLM contributions in git repositories via commit history analysis

Introduction of repo-slopscore, a tool designed to identify AI-generated contributions in git repositories by analyzing commit history.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second

A technical talk by Nia Deckers at RustWeek regarding the implementation and challenges of Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in Miri.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Even More Batteries Included With Emacs

A series of articles highlighting the extensive and often underutilized built-in functionality of the Emacs editor.

AI/ML Lobste.rs

The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough

A critical look at the privacy implications of private inference in the context of the future of Siri.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Simplifying Weak Reference Processing in ZGC

An analysis of improvements made to simplify weak reference processing within the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC).

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL

Comparison of write-heavy sysbench performance tests on modern PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments using a large server.

Other Hacker News

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

A Hacker News discussion thread exploring the decline or failure of a system or entity referred to as 'Rome'.

Cybersecurity The Verge

China may have accessed Mythos

Reports suggest China may have accessed Anthropic's Mythos model, posing national security risks and potential for reverse engineering through distillation.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling

The Wine Wayland driver has added alpha modifier support to improve opacity handling for Windows applications running on Wayland Linux.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses

Qt 6.12 Beta is released, featuring support for running Qt Quick 3D XR applications on 2D AR glasses.

Software Engineering Phoronix

GCC 15.3 Compiler Brings Nearly A Year Worth Of Bug Fixes

GCC 15.3 has been released, providing a comprehensive set of back-ported bug fixes for users on the 15 series.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics

Mesa 26.2 is adding support for AMD's GFX1156 graphics IP, targeting new post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 hardware.

Open Source Phoronix

Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default

Git 2.55-rc0 is released, most notably enabling Rust support by default in the version control system.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages

Performance benchmarks compare the new amd64v3 x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu 26.10 against conventional amd64 packages.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes

Khronos Group released glTF 2.1, a backward-compatible update to the 3D asset standard aimed at supporting larger scenes.

Open Source Phoronix

YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code

Jos Dehaes has developed YSERVER, a modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust with assistance from Claude Code.