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Stories by meithecatte

They're putting blue food coloring in everything (blog.foxtrotluna.social)
L 244 pts 34 comments by meithecatte Jul 20, 2025 satirevibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Bitwarden version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software (github.com)
L 150 pts 70 comments by meithecatte Oct 20, 2024 release Programming (General) thread
rtc: rk808: Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015) (github.com)
L 85 pts 39 comments by meithecatte Nov 11, 2025 hardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (vidarholen.net)
L 79 pts 11 comments by meithecatte Nov 6, 2023 unix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash) (sdomi.pl)
L 74 pts 12 comments by meithecatte Feb 15, 2022 programming Programming (General) thread
Working Lego Turing Machine (ideas.lego.com)
L 67 pts 16 comments by meithecatte Oct 5, 2024 compsci Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Compiling Rust is NP-hard (niedzejkob.p4.team)
L 67 pts 26 comments by meithecatte Jul 8, 2021 compscirust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Compiler Optimizations Are Hard Because They Forget (faultlore.com)
L 58 pts 14 comments by meithecatte Sep 24, 2022 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR (shkspr.mobi)
L 53 pts 13 comments by meithecatte Oct 25, 2021 law thread
GNU Taler v1.0 released (taler.net)
L 52 pts 19 comments by meithecatte May 17, 2025 finance Productivity / Career / Business thread
How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019) (blog.teddykatz.com)
L 49 pts 3 comments by meithecatte Jul 9, 2021 securityvcs Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw (liberda.nl)
L 47 pts 28 comments by meithecatte Oct 6, 2024 androidsecurity Security / Privacy thread
Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct (glasgow-embedded.org)
L 40 pts 16 comments by meithecatte Jan 16, 2026 culturepractices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Inline In Rust (matklad.github.io)
L 37 pts 23 comments by meithecatte Jul 10, 2021 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
A sudoku game where you have to prove that your deductions are valid (github.com)
L 33 pts 2 comments by meithecatte Jul 1, 2021 formalmethodsgames Programming Languages / CS TheoryGaming / Retro Computing thread
Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop (sdomi.pl)
L 30 pts 2 comments by meithecatte Jul 2, 2024 hardwaresecurity Security / PrivacyMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
BB(3, 3) is Hard (sligocki.com)
L 29 pts 4 comments by meithecatte Oct 17, 2023 compscimath Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
L 26 pts 0 comments by meithecatte May 11, 2025 cmath Systems / Low-Level / OSScience / Math / Physics thread
Project SERVFAIL: one year in (sdomi.pl)
L 25 pts 3 comments by meithecatte Jul 17, 2025 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language (github.com)
L 22 pts 3 comments by meithecatte Nov 19, 2023 assemblygraphicsplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
bashfuck: Write any bash with only the punctuation characters (github.com)
L 21 pts 4 comments by meithecatte Aug 18, 2024 unix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
When JPEGs compress worse than PNGs (twitter.com)
L 19 pts 10 comments by meithecatte Oct 10, 2021 graphics thread
Domain Theory Lecture Notes (liamoc.net)
L 18 pts 5 comments by meithecatte May 25, 2025 mathplt Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
No branches? No problem — a Forth assembler (niedzejkob.p4.team)
L 18 pts 0 comments by meithecatte Jun 21, 2021 programming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
GSoC 2025 - Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR (blog.llvm.org)
L 17 pts 0 comments by meithecatte Sep 9, 2025 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
The wonders of Prehistorik Man on the GB (eldred.fr)
L 16 pts 1 comments by meithecatte Oct 1, 2024 gamesreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
100 years of Zermelo’s axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (research.mietek.io)
L 15 pts 4 comments by meithecatte Jun 13, 2025 formalmethodsmath Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
This is a recent Agda formalization of a 2006 paper by Martin-Löf.
SQLite on macOS: Not ACID compliant with the bundled version (2022) (bonsaidb.io)
L 15 pts 7 comments by meithecatte Mar 9, 2024 databases Data / Databases / InfrastructureApple / macOS / iOS thread
Solving (Some) Formal Math Olympiad Problems (openai.com)
L 13 pts 0 comments by meithecatte Feb 2, 2022 aiformalmethodsmath AI / Machine LearningProgramming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
Super Mario Bros is (Computationally) Hard (youtube.com)
L 11 pts 0 comments by meithecatte Jul 18, 2025 compscigamesvideo Programming Languages / CS TheoryGaming / Retro Computing thread
[or in the jargon: NP-hard]