What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view, by Bret Victor.

I do not fear, by John Goerzen. “If governors really wanted to save lives, they would support meaningful mass transit alternatives that would prevent tens of thousands of road deaths a year. They would support guaranteed health care for all. They would support good education, science-based climate change action, clean water and air, mental health services for all, and above all, compassion for everyone.”

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (PDF), by D. M. Ritchie. Previously unpublished 1971(?) draft.

The Visual ARM1, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of ARM Ltd., UK.

Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need, by Max Kreminski. Required reading for everyone teaching anything.

Broken Performance Tools (PDF), slides by Brendan Gregg.

How to make error handling less error-prone (YouTube), by Daira Hopwood at StrangeLoop 2014. (Slides)

Quantum mechanical derivation of the Wallis formula for π, by Tamar Friedmann and C. R. Hagen.

Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple’s power adapter

If you want to say…

North Korean Interiors

Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free, by Daniel J. Bernstein.

PCG, a Family of Better Random Number Generators, by Melissa O’Neill.

Klong, a Simple Array Language inspired by K.

vmm(4) userland bits vmd(8), vmmctl(8) hit -current, OpenBSD gets a hypervisor.

Police body cams found pre-installed with notorious Conficker worm

Why do the ellipses in the Star Wars opening crawl have four dots? (In case you care….)

List of selfie-related injuries and deaths

The Black Hole

Early Phishing, by Koceilah Rekouche. “The first of these software programs was mine, called AOHell, and it was where the word phishing was coined. The software provided an automated password and credit card-stealing mechanism starting in January 1995.”

Differential Topology (YouTube, 1965), three lectures by John W. Milnor.

OberonStation is a self-contained FPGA-based, 32-bit computer designed specifically to run Oberon RISC.

lrs is a highly experimental, Linux-only standard library for the rustc compiler.

The Early History of the more Command, by Dan Halbert.

In-place algorithm for interleaving an array is not so easy.

Strict Haskell

The true origins of SCCS

ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The Graphic Novel, the complete, unabridged legal agreement, as drawn by R. Sikoryak.

Password Hashing Competition has finished, the winner is Argon2!

Sandy2x is a Curve25519 implementation tailored for the Intel Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge microarchitectures

Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications, by Daniel Lemire.

Identifier-locator addressing for network virtualization, RFC draft by Tom Herbert.

Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers, awesome resource.

From 0-to-illumos on OmniOS r151016, by Dan McDonald.

Using ed(1) as a password manager, why not.

Mojoptix 001: Digital Sundial, cool!

Buchstabieren vor und nach dem dritten Reich.

Dr. Eugenia Cheng at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! (YouTube)