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FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU
← Trustworthy software through non-profits? FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU Posted on 2026-01-21 The European Commission has posted…
Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT
If you’re at all concerned about privacy, the rise of AI personal assistants can feel alarming. It’s difficult to use…
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
tl;dr: There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated…
Engineering a Columnar Database in Rust: Lessons on io_uring, SIMD, and why I avoided Async/Await
I recently released the core engine for Frigatebird, an OLAP (Columnar) database built from scratch. While building it, I made…
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
January 16, 2026 Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them A few days ago, I came across…
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He…
The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
CreepyLink The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible. Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them…
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Official Response Due to recent activities that are in direct violation of our Code of Conduct, which is publicly available on…
Google co-founders may be leaving California
In Brief Posted: 2:56 PM PST · January 11, 2026 Image Credits:James Leynse/Corbis / Getty Images Anthony Ha Google co-founders…
WhatsApp is untrustable
WhatsApp is untrustable TL;DR: As the client applications of WhatsApp are closed-source, claims of end-to-end encryption cannot be validated. This…
Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026! Jan 5, 2026 Happy New Year 2026! Once again, a lot has…
Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
Ferrite A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a…
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&&&&&&&&&&&&&&strJanuary 9, 2026rustperformanceWhile adding a failing test to the Rust compiler, I stumbled upon a peculiar code generation test:pub fn…
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration:…
Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI
The project is available at: https://github.com/shuaimu/rusty-cpp As someone who has spent almost 15 years doing systems research with C++, I…
Lessons from 14 Years at Google
When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right….
Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp
Happy New Year!For the past 20+ years, every Common Lisp application that needs HTTPS has traditionally had one option: cl+ssl,…
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week.One net worth…
Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker
Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker A modified Rust compiler with the borrow checker disabled. This allows code that would…