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Building NexisK: A Technical Deep Dive into My i386 Kernel
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (1627+ words) Building NexisK: Inside My i386 Kernel, Custom Bootloader and Memory Management Building an operating system kernel from scratch is not primarily about displaying text on a screen. It is about establishing a controlled execution environment on hardware that initially knows nothing…...
Giving an AI Agent a Real Sandbox: Filesystem and Network Jail, in Java
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (733+ words) Ask a coding agent to run a build, and you have just handed a language model the ability to cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Prompt-level instructions like "do not read sensitive files" are not a security boundary — they are a suggestion to a…...
TypeScript SDK
19+ hour, 50+ min ago (11+ words) fathom.krakn.ai - Generated reference: see module pages alongside this index....
At the edge, the number that matters is memory - not throughput (specially in Ramageddon)
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (720+ words) We rebuilt LF Edge eKuiper in Rust and ran it against eKuiper, Telegraf and Redpanda Connect... Tagged with rust, iot, performance, opensource....
Does Rust Support Inheritance? Yes, No, and Maybe, All in the Same File
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (445+ words) C started with plain structs: bags of fields without attached behavior. C++ added methods and class inheritance on top, letting a Derived class reuse Base fields and virtual methods while overriding only what differed. For many developers, that transition from…...
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
10+ hour, 56+ min ago (306+ words) Bingo – full house of memory-safe utilities now included Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on…...
Moli Builds a Rust Browser That Uses 10x Less Memory Than Chrome
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (215+ words) Moli is a headless browser built in Rust from scratch that skips rendering by default, cutting memory use to roughly one-tenth of Chrome for agent workloads. Moli, a new Rust project, implements a headless browser for AI agents without wrapping…...
RTK: A High-Performance Rust CLI Proxy That Slashes AI Agent Token Costs
11+ hour, 44+ min ago (16+ words) Eliminating Terminal Bloat: Meet RTK (Rust Token Killer) As developers increasingly... Tagged with ai, opensource, programming....
A stale hash failed 29 of 59 tests. The tool that refreshes hashes had never seen that copy.
11+ hour, 44+ min ago (634+ words) The project keeps derived claims from rotting with freshness pins. A pin is a row that cites another file and records the hash of the bytes it was derived from. A small device recomputes those hashes and re-keys the rows....
Designing a plugin architecture for third-party database providers in a TypeScript application
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (154+ words) I've been working on the architecture of LibreDB Studio, a TypeScript-based database IDE that supports multiple SQL/NoSQL databases While working on the provider layer, I ended up designing a fairly strict provider architecture to make adding new databases safer…...