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A solo developer has been building IONA OS, a sovereign operating system written in Rust from scratch over 13 years, with no team, venture capital, or token. The OS includes its own blockchain protoco…

A developer building the experimental Verbose language has written a Verbose compiler front end in Verbose itself, for a toy subset of the language. The front end, which includes a tokenizer, parser, …

The article investigates the performance impact of "split locks" on x86-64 CPUs, which are atomic operations that span two cache lines and force a disruptive "bus lock." Testing on Intel's Arrow Lake …