Misha Panchenko
@paimon.github.io
CS Nerd • Software Engineer (C++/Python) • 🎮
A solid summary of the repercussions of the AI coding boom on the open-source ecosystem and its maintainers: www.ft.com/content/cec8... #ai #foss
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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blog.weineng.me/posts/slowes... #performance
Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry
Given an array of data, what is the slowest way to sum up the integers? Is it adding the numbers from left to right, adding them randomly, or doing something else? In this post, we are going to build ...
blog.weineng.me
Where Confucianism sees success as a result of individual effort, the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi sees a more fragile reality. In this illuminating Essay, Christine Abigail L Tan examines where Confucianism goes wrong, finding similarities in the modern ideology of meritocracy
Zhuangzi and the case against meritocracy | Aeon Essays
The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion
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the next version of Python is going to have a built in sampling profiler!!!! this is so exciting to see docs.python.org/3.15/library...
In a historic first, the James Webb Space Telescope has performed a direct mass measurement of a black hole in the early Universe. Located 13 billion light-years away, this black hole weighs in at a massive 50 million times the mass of the Sun. #JWST #SpaceNews #Astronomy 1/4
![Image description: Image showing hundreds of bright objects of different size, colour, and shape on the black background of space. Colours range from white to deep red. Shapes include elliptical, spiral, dot-like, dash-like, and arcuate.Three objects in the central part of the image are called out with small white boxes that contain images of the three objects. From top to bottom these are labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C. At the centre of each box is a tiny, circular red dot. QSO1A (top) is notably larger, brighter, and clearer than the other two. QSO1B, in the middle, is the smallest and fuzziest, and is somewhat washed out by the light of a larger white object next to it.]
Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Furtak (Ben-Gurion University), R. Maiolino (Cambridge), F. D'Eugenio (Cambridge), I. Juodžbalis (Cambridge), H. Übler (MPE), C. Marconcini (University of Florence). Image processing: A. Pagan](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipz7wp4enanb2fscqz375xps/bafkreih6oympgpvcn33af6qhofbghicmeuopyukdv4wr5z6wcih3jixtda)
Artemis II astronauts unknowingly captured satellite glint youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?... #astrophotography #Artemis
NASA Didn't Even Know!!
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
Lunar Flyby - NASA
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Open source maintainers already had enough to worry about before the ongoing agentic AI revolution... my thoughts on recent AI-induced problems in open source development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7...
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
YouTube video by Jeff Geerling
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"In this paper, we examine software-based prefetching thoroughly by delving into its implementation and identifying pitfalls across various platforms" dbis.cs.tu-dortmund.de/storages/dbi... #performance
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Great video on how extreme-UV lithography works and why ASML’s machines are so crucial to chipmaking: youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0 #hardware
The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
YouTube video by Veritasium
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The reason we know Radiation causes bit-flips in DRAM is pretty hilarious. In the late 70s, Intel Ram was occasionally producing soft, uncorrectable errors. Turns out, the ceramic packaging on the chip itself had a little bit of Uranium. You know, as one does.
Everyone knows that the x86 ISA is big. Modern CPUs have ~1000+ mnemonics. Guess how many make up 90% of compiled C/C++ code? TWELVE. I'm not kidding. The question is…what if we shrank it?
Quite impressed by the engineering in this project: youtu.be/J3CnDXh7hH0?... #LEGO #DIY
Building a Cat-Sized Lego Train
YouTube video by Brick Technology
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Interesting chart. It may help explain the current right-wing shift around the globe. With all the reservations, intergenerational transmission of values cannot be completely ignored. Source: www.ft.com/content/a08c... #Demographics #Politics
Here is the Fallout season 2 trailer. Yep I’m in it. I love this show. youtu.be/NZY5WiqeyQQ?...
Fallout Season 2 - Official Teaser Trailer | gamescom 2025
YouTube video by IGN
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