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Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

https://lwn.net/Articles/1095811/
20•signa11•1h ago

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p1necone•22m ago
The concept of undefined behaviour specific to C/C++ has always seemed batshit insane to me, and I'm yet to read anything about it that has made it seem any less so.
BeaverGoose•9m ago
Make signed overflow defined please.
chasil•5m ago
"Some Honeywell machines, for example, had nine-bit bytes."

OS 2200 has 36-bit words. It is still a supported platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_1100/2200_series

This platform was the first SMP UNIX implementation:

"Any configuration supplied by Sperry, including multiprocessor ones, can run the UNIX system."

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
588•gmays•10h ago•131 comments

What should we tell our students?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
26•sajid•45m ago•14 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
317•kbyatnal•9h ago•123 comments

Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

https://lwn.net/Articles/1095811/
20•signa11•1h ago•3 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
469•ck2•1d ago•294 comments

Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
60•Philpax•4h ago•9 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
4•sohkamyung•5m ago•0 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
443•soheilpro•2d ago•74 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
464•jonotime•1d ago•402 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
228•Michelangelo11•17h ago•76 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
130•NaOH•8h ago•42 comments

Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools

https://svg-spark.vercel.app/
32•Zeus808•3h ago•4 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
83•ray__•6h ago•10 comments

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
190•bookofjoe•6h ago•133 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
101•chabad360•1d ago•64 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

136•mariocesar•2d ago•211 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
117•mfiguiere•2d ago•36 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
273•speckx•13h ago•152 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
111•AnneWodell•10h ago•25 comments

Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos
22•edris0077•3h ago•3 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
98•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•6 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
130•saikatsg•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
121•scottbez1•10h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man

https://opper.ai/jevman-benchmark/
40•felix089•10h ago•6 comments

Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

https://blog.janestreet.com/scaling-and-benchmarking-a-critical-message-bus/
23•eatonphil•9h ago•0 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
112•Hooke•1d ago•51 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
155•andreynering•13h ago•116 comments

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

https://thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-prison-sentence-for-bot-farming-music-streams/
127•cdrnsf•1d ago•206 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
265•benbreen•2d ago•112 comments

Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU

https://github.com/ymcrcat/rgpu
45•boxstream•1d ago•2 comments