Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet, by Steven Levy.

The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace (YouTube), read by John Perry Barlow.

When Textbook RSA is Used to Protect the Privacy of Hundreds of Millions of Users, by Jeffrey Knockel, Thomas Ristenpart, and Jedidiah Crandall. Shudder.

Limiting Your Child’s Fire Time: A Guide for Concerned Paleolithic Parents, by Rachel Klein.

Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch (PDF), by Warren Toomey. “This paper looks at the creation of Unix after AT&T’s depature from the Multics project, the features and innovations in the PDP-7 version of Unix, and the work done in 2016 to restore a working version of PDP-7 Unix from the available source code.”

VF-1, a command line gopher client. High speed, low drag.

Pudding is a new proof assistant under development at Indiana University.

The Remarkable Number 1/89, this is neat.

This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe

The mLab, abstract nonsense nonsense.

The EDGE Question 2018, “What is the Last Question?”.

Igniting the Open Hardware Ecosystem with RISC-V, FOSDEM talk about the HiFive Unleashed board.

NO_COLOR, a proposal to disable ANSI colors in a uniform way.

LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.

Obarun, an Arch Linux based system without systemd.

LIBXSMM is a library for small dense and small sparse matrix-matrix multiplications.

Numberjack is a modelling package written in Python for constraint programming. “There are a number of available back-ends: three mixed integer programming solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX, and SCIP), satisfiability solvers (MiniSat, Walksat, and many others), a constraint programming solver (Mistral), and a weighted constraint satisfaction solver (Toulbar2).”

leela-chess is an adaptation of GCP’s Leela Zero repository to chess, using Stockfish’s position representation and move generation.

Swankish, an Emacs SLIME swank for Schemes.

Shortest Addition Chains, or how to multiply by a constant using only additions of previous results.

Here’s the Solution to the 3-Year-Old, $50,000 Bitcoin Puzzle