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Stories by orib

Meltdown and Spectre (spectreattack.com)
L 142 pts 67 comments by orib Jan 3, 2018 programmingsecurity Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread
LLMs Are Not Fun (orib.dev)
L 137 pts 96 comments by orib Dec 29, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Git/fs: A native git implementation for Plan 9 (bitbucket.org)
L 75 pts 20 comments by orib Apr 3, 2019 cosdevprogrammingreleasevcs Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Until recently, there were no git clients for Plan 9. Upstream git is large, included perl and bash code, and used a large number of system calls that Plan 9 does not support. In addition, it does not feel good to use, with a bewildering array of inconsistent command line arguments and ad-hoc comman...
gefs: a good enough file system for plan 9 (orib.dev)
L 64 pts 9 comments by orib Apr 28, 2023 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Shithub: Public git hosting on 9front (shithub.us)
L 62 pts 11 comments by orib Feb 7, 2021 showvcs Programming (General) thread
Computers can be understood (blog.nelhage.com)
L 48 pts 12 comments by orib Feb 9, 2026 philosophyprogramming Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Performance: Avoid SQLite In Your Next Firefox Feature (wiki.mozilla.org)
L 47 pts 29 comments by orib Jun 13, 2020 databasesprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
git/serve: A git server for Plan 9 (orib.dev)
L 44 pts 3 comments by orib Sep 8, 2020 osdevprogrammingvcs Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Git9 is self hosted now: Hosting git on Plan 9 (orib.dev)
L 43 pts 10 comments by orib Nov 26, 2020 programmingvcs Programming (General) thread
Iā€™m not sure that UNIX won (rubenerd.com)
L 42 pts 26 comments by orib Aug 30, 2021 philosophyunix Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
First Release of the Myrddin Programming Language (myrlang.org)
L 41 pts 16 comments by orib Mar 5, 2017 programmingreleaseshow Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Build Systems A La Carte (2018) (microsoft.com)
L 40 pts 4 comments by orib Dec 14, 2025 pdfprogramming Programming (General) thread
The Myrddin Programming Language (eigenstate.org)
L 40 pts 17 comments by orib Dec 1, 2015 compilersprogrammingreleaseshow Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
A relatively simple language written from the ground up, producing statically linked binaries with zero dependencies.
I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) (stoppels.ch)
L 38 pts 1 comments by orib Jan 6, 2026 performanceprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Alpine: Considering LibreSSL as default OpenSSL provider again (gitlab.alpinelinux.org)
L 38 pts 12 comments by orib Nov 8, 2021 cryptographylinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
How [sl] Switched To Plan 9 (helpful.cat-v.org)
L 38 pts 20 comments by orib Dec 4, 2019 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
This was posted as a comment, but I think it's worth a top level story.
ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V) (changelog.complete.org)
L 35 pts 15 comments by orib Sep 10, 2025 hardwareprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support (tailscale.com)
L 35 pts 3 comments by orib Apr 2, 2025 networkingosdevsatire Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
AI winter - update (blog.piekniewski.info)
L 35 pts 6 comments by orib Jan 3, 2019 aiprogramming AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Tinywm: An X11 window manager in 50 lines of C (github.com)
L 34 pts 18 comments by orib Jan 27, 2021 graphicsprogrammingunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
International Workshop on Plan 9, 2020 Edition (iwp9.org)
L 33 pts 9 comments by orib Jan 14, 2020 eventosdevprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix Source Code (minnie.tuhs.org)
L 32 pts 9 comments by orib Mar 27, 2017 historicalprogrammingunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The actual code is in these directories: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/
Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout (gaultier.github.io)
L 31 pts 4 comments by orib Nov 11, 2024 programming Programming (General) thread
Comments on Comments (orib.dev)
L 31 pts 13 comments by orib Sep 9, 2020 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
A CAP tradeoff in the wild (decomposition.al)
L 28 pts 8 comments by orib Jan 2, 2024 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
signalfd is useless (2015) (ldpreload.com)
L 28 pts 7 comments by orib Jun 3, 2018 linuxprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Irc.myr: A libc-free IRC client written in Myrddin (eigenstate.org)
L 26 pts 11 comments by orib Nov 24, 2017 programmingshow Programming (General) thread
If I'm going to write a language, I may as well start writing my day to day tools in it.
Myrddin 0.3 Released: "Stand Back, We're Proffessionals" (myrlang.org)
L 25 pts 6 comments by orib Jun 30, 2018 pltprogrammingrelease Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The Myrddin 0.3 Release is done. Thanks for everyone that helped!
The Google Willow thing (scottaaronson.blog)
L 24 pts 2 comments by orib Dec 11, 2024 programming Programming (General) thread
Simplicity and Healthy Ecosystems (orib.dev)
L 24 pts 11 comments by orib Sep 24, 2020 philosophyprogramming Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread