A short roundup of things I read or bookmarked this month — mostly systems, networking and ML. Links go to the originals.
From lobste.rs
- VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0
- curl: a CVE dispute
- A Better SQL in 11 Lines of Code
- July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more
- The U.S. is more than just the US (according to the ISO)
Recent papers — distributed systems (arXiv cs.DC)
- Characterizing the I/O Behavior of HPC Applications through Modeling and Simulation
- TerraceMoE: A Cost Model for Hierarchical MoE All-to-All Communication
- Learning-Augmented Heuristics: Simple, yet Smart, Robust and Interpretable Cache Eviction
- Great Expectations: Benchmarking the Real-World Performance of RVV 1.0 in HPC
- Memory-efficient GPU pipelines for real-time non-line-of-sight reconstruction
Recent papers — networking (arXiv cs.NI)
- Network Topologies for QKD Networks
- xTRUCE: A Provably Safe Arbiter for Multi-xApp Conflict Mitigation in Agentic O-RAN
- Off the Normal Path: Learning Spatial Density Models of Node Mobility
- Enhancing Network Resilience via Graph-Based Anomaly Detection in Sovereign Functions
- OpenTwin: Closed-Loop Digital Twins for Trustworthy Policy Deployment in Open RAN