Links tagged “wtc-012”

tris.sherliker.net

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt - a real, self-evaluating, obfuscated Akamai script, sold as clothing, taken apart line by line.

purplesyringa.moe

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if - branch prediction, aliasing and autovectorisation, taken apart with benchmarks.

lore.kernel.org

"Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" - Torvalds settles kernel LLM policy on the mailing list: it is a tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork or walk away.

maurycyz.com

Regressive JPEGs - later scans in a progressive JPEG can overwrite what was already drawn, so a single file can show a different image while it loads, and animate if you push it. The format taken apart byte by byte.

bun.com

Bun's own account of a mechanical port from Zig to Rust over eleven days, reporting better stability and fewer leaks.

rfc-editor.org

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method - a real HTTP method for search, safe and idempotent, with a request body. No more choosing between a GET with a body that nothing guarantees and a POST that lies about what it does.

x.com

A post reporting that Grok Build silently uploaded the poster's whole home directory — SSH keys, password manager database, documents, photos — to xAI's servers.

simonwillison.net

Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way - short and immediately applicable CI tip.

raymyers.org

Reads the Bun rewrite announcements against each other and argues the Zig-to-Rust move was told as a story rather than justified as engineering.