Links
An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With
https://andrewkelley.me/post/open-letter-everyone-butted-heads.html'The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit!': Adventures in Triton Kernels, Profiling, Parallelism and More
https://ut21.github.io/blog/triton.htmlHeap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE
https://retr0.blog/blog/llama-rpc-rceZig Builds Are Getting Faster
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-fasterSimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold(via). The Github repository accompanies the research paper, SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think (Arxiv 2025).
Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
https://github.com/rxi/sj.hTernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/Sharing for the love of distributed filesystems.
KDE is now my favorite desktop
https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/I agree with OP. KDE is nice, snappy, and simple. During the last years it focused on bug fixing and improvements rather than introducing major redesigns, and I appreciate that. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for macOS.
Nepal has chosen their next interim Prime Minister via vote on Discord, per NYT
https://x.com/rachinkalakheti/status/1966314602251301138Sushila Karki has officially taken office as Prime Minister of Nepal after becoming the first world leader to be elected via a poll on Discord.
One for the books.
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driverThis inspires me to do something similar with an old printer that I have, a Canon MG3500, which does not work anymore because it’s not supported by last OS versions.