Computer science recap for week 45/2024

From 4/11/2024 to 10/11/2024

Articles #

• We’re leaving Kubernetes 437 comments in 4 discussions

• XMPP: The Forgotten Gem of Instant Messaging 176 comments in 2 discussions

• Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code 132 comments in 4 discussions

• Alonzo Church: The Forgotten Architect of Computer Intelligence 120 comments in 2 discussions

• Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn’t 95 comments in 2 discussions

• Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs 84 comments in 2 discussions

• Turing kicked us out of Heaven (2023) 56 comments in 2 discussions

• Low-Poly Image Generation using Evolutionary Algorithms in Ruby 42 comments in 1 discussion

• When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story 41 comments in 2 discussions

• Welcoming two new Rust GPU maintainers 39 comments in 1 discussion

• [N] The ARC prize offers $600,000 for few-shot learning of puzzles made of colored squares on a grid. 38 comments in 1 discussion

• [R] State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent 34 comments in 2 discussions

• How to self-host all of Bluesky (except the AppView (for now)) 33 comments in 1 discussion

• Upcoming changes to the DNSSEC root trust anchor 26 comments in 2 discussions

• Implementing Order-Independent Transparency 20 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• Announcing Chicory 1.0.0-M1: First Milestone Release 19 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• I created a POC linear scan register allocator 15 comments in 2 discussions

• [P] I made a tool for building and training neural networks visually, operation by operation 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Video Input for your local LLMS [P] 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Known Attacks On Elliptic Curve Cryptography 4 comments in 1 discussion

• linux-ia64: Linux fork with IA-64 support re-added. See http://t2sde.org/ for an Itanium-enabled Linux distribution 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Krixik – Easily sequence small/specialized AI models (pip-installable) 4 comments in 1 discussion

• CORAL: a Rust-like Borrow Checker for C 3 comments in 1 discussion

• FN-DSA (Falcon) implemented in Rust (by Thomas Pornin) 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Example of the minimalistic (<300 lines) implementation of GPT in TensorFlow.js 2 comments in 1 discussion

• nemulator on GitHub 2 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• PyTorch 2: Faster Machine Learning Through Dynamic Python Bytecode Transformation and Graph Compilation 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Home Grid - Plan9 video series