A short roundup of things I read or bookmarked this month — mostly systems, networking and ML. Links go to the originals.
From lobste.rs
- The Cuckoo’s Egg
- What TLA+ can and can’t check
- Tcl/Tk 9.1
- Differences between
foldlandfoldr - How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
Recent papers — distributed systems (arXiv cs.DC)
- Mixture-of-Kittens: MoE Megakernel for NVL72s
- ParaAnya: Accelerating Parallel Diffusion Sampling with Plug-and-Play Output Caching
- Reshaping Rollout Workloads for Asynchronous RL Post-Training on Heterogeneous Accelerators
- Efficient Agentic LLM Serving over SSD-based Sparse KV Storage
- Purlin: Separating Orchestration from the Datapath of Collectives
Recent papers — networking (arXiv cs.NI)
- Traffic Congestion Awareness and On-Demand Distribution in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks in California I-210 Freeway
- Non-Ionizing Radiation Analysis in Close Proximity to Antenna Tower: A Case Study in Northeast Brazil
- People effects on IoT indoor wireless channel characterization
- SCORAS-MoE: Joint Compression and Resource-Adaptive Deployment of MoE-VLMs in LEO Satellite Networks
- DSWM: Decomposed Spatio-Temporal World Model for Demand-Driven UAV Base Station Repositioning