Computer science recap for week 8/2025

From 17/2/2025 to 23/2/2025

Articles #

• OpenBSD: Innovations 463 comments in 5 discussions

• We're at a crossroads 326 comments in 2 discussions

• When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines 318 comments in 3 discussions

• Introducing Pi-hole v6 313 comments in 3 discussions

• Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal 170 comments in 4 discussions

• New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code 162 comments in 3 discussions

• My LLM codegen workflow atm 157 comments in 1 discussion

• Can I ethically use LLMs? 150 comments in 2 discussions

• TinyCompiler: a compiler in a week-end 112 comments in 1 discussion

• Ring is unmaintained 102 comments in 2 discussions

• A Tail Calling Interpreter For Python (And Other Updates) 90 comments in 1 discussion

• SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering? 77 comments in 2 discussions

• How to prepare for NLP Engineer position at FinTech company 70 comments in 2 discussions

• FAQ on Microsoft’s topological qubit thing 69 comments in 1 discussion

• Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents 68 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• ArcaOS 5.1.1 released (modern OS/2) 21 comments in 2 discussions

• go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• llm-commit: A plugin for llm that generates commit messages 52 comments in 2 discussions

• ZF not being set on ADC Indirect, X when using TomHarte tests. [6502] 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Copy-Less Vectors 9 comments in 2 discussions

• JetBrains IDEs for Linux RISC-V 64/LoongArch64

• ML-Dev-Bench – Benchmarking Agents on Real-World AI Workflows

• Kocoboy: An experimental Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, GameBoy Emulator.

Videos #

• Linux running on NES via NES86 -- IBM PC emulator 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Recommender Systems - Part 3: Issues & Solutions

• AI models susceptible to 'trojan horse' emojis [video]