DEC64 is a number type. It can precisely represent decimal fractions with 16 decimal places, which makes it very well suited to all applications that are concerned with money. It can represent values as gargantuan as 3.6028797018963967E+143 or as measly as 1.0E-127, which makes it well suited to most scientific applications. It can provide very fast performance on integer values, eliminating the need for a separate int type and avoiding the terrible errors than can result from int truncation.

There’s been a lot of attention recently around a number of vulnerabilities in Android’s libstagefright. There’s been a lot of confusion about the remote exploitability of the issues, especially on modern devices. In this blog post we will demonstrate an exploit for one of the libstagefright vulnerabilities that works on recent Android versions (Android 5.0+ on Nexus 5).

Modern OpenGL wrapper, thin C++14 header-only layer on top of the OpenGL 4.5+ API

Ring is a secure and distributed voice, video and chat communication platform that requires no centralized server and leaves the power of privacy in the hands of the user.

Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking data structures for the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems.

The idea behind dependency injection really is quite simple. You have a bunch of objects (I'll refer to them as "services"), some of which depend on the others. Each service explicitly declares its dependencies in some way (for example, by listing them as parameters to its constructor). An external piece of code (the so-called injector) creates and provides the dependencies accordingly, based on these declarations. This is a nice improvement over having everything be a singleton or passing around a huge service locator.

List of interesting info on linux kernel

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Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.

This comes as a standalone single-file .gdbinit which, among the other things, enables a configurable dashboard showing the most relevant information during the program execution. Its main goal is to reduce the number of GDB commands issued to inspect the current program status allowing the programmer to focus on the control flow instead.

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.

IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high throughput content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyperlinks. This forms a generalized Merkle DAG, a data structure upon which one can build versioned file systems, blockchains, and even a Permanent Web. IPFS combines a distributed hashtable, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other.

An idempotent command-line utility for managing your /etc/hosts file.

This project aims to make updating firmware on Linux automatic, safe and reliable.

Other graph: https://github.com/anvaka/pm/blob/master/README.md