Programming

“wrote software that included code that allowed me to understand or technically predict winning numbers” says Iowa man convicted of lottery fraud; how does one predict random numbers yet to be generated? https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/iowa-man-convicted-of-lottery-rigging-scheme-granted-parole/ https://redd.it/sj6sy8 @programmingreddit

DeepMind introduced today AlphaCode: a system that can compete at average human level in competitive coding competitions https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode https://redd.it/siw7e5 @programmingreddit

DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914085/alphacode-ai-coding-program-automatic-deepmind-codeforce https://redd.it/sit2jo @programmingreddit

Serenity OS https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/ https://redd.it/simv95 @programmingreddit

PSA: Transferring IP addresses of EU citizens to the US without consent is illegal *because US spy laws* are incompatible with GDPR https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504018/Privacy-Shield-US-surveillance-law-reforms-essential-for-EU-US-data-says-EU-parliamentary-study https://redd.it/sijdrr @programmingreddit

German Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/german-court-rules-websites-embedding.html https://redd.it/si4qnh @programmingreddit

No capes: the perils of being a hero-engineer https://incident.io/blog/no-capes https://redd.it/shs29w @programmingreddit

Some Modern C++ notes from reading "A Tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/cpp-notes-pt1/ https://redd.it/shl30q @programmingreddit

Pay attention to WebAssembly https://harshal.sheth.io/2022/01/31/webassembly.html https://redd.it/shpy1w @programmingreddit

WebVM: server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser https://medium.com/leaningtech/webvm-client-side-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser-40a60170b361 https://redd.it/shun8o @programmingreddit

10 Bash quirks and how to live with them https://blog.djy.io/10-bash-quirks-and-how-to-live-with-them/ https://redd.it/sh1acr @programmingreddit

How we built a SIMD JIT compiler for SQL in QuestDB https://questdb.io/blog/2022/01/12/jit-sql-compiler https://redd.it/sh4jrn @programmingreddit

A UX designer walks into a Tesla bar https://jenson.org/tesla/ https://redd.it/sh4835 @programmingreddit

How I reversed a NodeJS malware and found the author https://medium.com/@nicolassurleraux/how-i-reversed-a-nodejs-malware-and-found-the-author-7dd9531b389f https://redd.it/sgtaj7 @programmingreddit

Rust-Written Replacement To GNU Coreutils Progressing, Some Binaries Now Faster https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Coreutils-Jan-2022 https://redd.it/sghg2a @programmingreddit

aquatic: extremely performant BitTorrent tracker software (UDP, HTTP, WebTorrent) achieving up to 1.6 million responses per second https://github.com/greatest-ape/aquatic https://redd.it/sg982m @programmingreddit

Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance https://nolanlawson.com/2022/01/05/memory-leaks-the-forgotten-side-of-web-performance https://redd.it/sgcc30 @programmingreddit

How algorithm improvements make quicksort 4x faster than standard implementations by reducing data dependencies https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.html https://redd.it/sg9ks5 @programmingreddit

Rust has a small standard library (and that's ok) https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/rust-stdlib/ https://redd.it/sg7p51 @programmingreddit

Finding Your Home in Game Graphics Programming http://alextardif.com/LearningGraphics.html https://redd.it/sfl6po @programmingreddit