Thread: The GNU C Library version 2.41 is now available

GNU C Library version 2.40 fixes 5 CVEs (lists.gnu.org)

HN 6 pts 1 comments by frankjr Jul 23, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The GNU C Library version 2.41 is now available (lists.gnu.org)

HN 9 pts 0 comments by thunderbong Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The GNU C Library version 2.43 released (sourceware.org)

HN 21 pts 2 comments by edelsohn Jan 24, 2026 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

conversion.js: Library for converting units of measurement. (github.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by delete Aug 16, 2014 javascript Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

HTML version of the old DOS HelpPC Reference Library (stanislavs.org)

L 1 pts 0 comments by zem Sep 26, 2014 cultureprogramming Web Development Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

HelpPC was an indispensable part of my 386 programming days; glad to see it's been preserved for posterity.

GNU Libreboot, version 20160902 released (coreboot.org)

L 11 pts 1 comments by inactive-user Sep 3, 2016 hardwarerelease Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

D Version 2.072 Released: Over 200 Bugs Fixed, Native TLS on macOS, 40 Significant Library Changes, (dlang.org)

L 9 pts 0 comments by btbytes Nov 3, 2016 programmingrelease Programming (General)Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library (CVE-2017-7526) (thehackernews.com)

L 24 pts 6 comments by matthewfarwell Jul 5, 2017 cryptographysecurity Programming (General)Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fermat's Library | Recounting the rationals annotated/explained version (fermatslibrary.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by river Jul 23, 2018 mathweb Web Development Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fermat's Library | Douglas Carl Engelbart: Developing the Underlying Concepts for Contemporary Computing annotated/explained version (fermatslibrary.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by river Aug 7, 2018 web Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library (lemire.me)

L 8 pts 0 comments by calvin Sep 28, 2019 c++performance Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GNU Readline Library cheatsheet for VI and Emacs Editing Modes (gnureadline-reference.herokuapp.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by rspk Nov 21, 2019 emacsvim Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Getting started with GSL - GNU Scientific Library on Windows, macOS and Linux (solarianprogrammer.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by raymii Jan 26, 2020 cscience Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A new version of the first known on-screen kiss between two African-American actors has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Norway (reuters.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Feb 26, 2021 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library (blog.sunfishcode.online)

L 58 pts 22 comments by brendan Jun 15, 2021 rustsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Gnuplot Version 6.0 Release Notes (gnuplot.info)

L 3 pts 3 comments by przemoc Jan 2, 2024 release thread

How the GNU C Library handles backward compatibility (developers.redhat.com)

L 14 pts 11 comments by vi_mi Feb 8, 2024 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Balancing Old Tricks with New Feats: AI-Powered Conversion From Enzyme to React Testing Library at Slack (slack.engineering)

L 1 pts 0 comments by amw-zero Jun 12, 2024 testingvibecoding AI / Machine Learning Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Making a bignum library for fun (austinhenley.com)

L 21 pts 15 comments by eatonphil Jun 13, 2024 c Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Memory sealing for the GNU C Library (lwn.net)

L 14 pts 0 comments by fro Jun 20, 2024 linuxsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Optimizing a bignum library for fun (austinhenley.com)

L 17 pts 3 comments by azhenley Jul 9, 2024 programming Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GNU C Library (GLIBC) 2.40 Released (sourceware.org)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by edelsohn Jul 23, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

VOLK: Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels for GNU Radio (github.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by teleforce Aug 2, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: GNU less for Win 10 and 11, stand-alone version with no dependencies (github.com)

HN 5 pts 0 comments by jftuga Aug 8, 2024 thread

Can a Rust binary use incompatible versions of the same library? (github.com)

HN 84 pts 85 comments by braxxox Aug 18, 2024 Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Intel Further Speeds Up Strnlen() in the GNU C Library for Recent Intel/AMD CPUs (phoronix.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by peutetre Aug 22, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GNU C Library Tuning for AArch64 Helps Memset Performance by ~24% (phoronix.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by mikece Sep 10, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GNU C Library Tuning for AArch64 Helps Memset Performance by ~24% (phoronix.com)

HN 19 pts 0 comments by transpute Sep 13, 2024 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GCC Preparing to Set C23 "GNU23" as Default C Language Version (phoronix.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by jrepinc Oct 16, 2024 thread

GCC Preparing to Set C23 "GNU23" as Default C Language Version (phoronix.com)

HN 5 pts 2 comments by thunderbong Oct 17, 2024 thread