Tips, Hacks & Miscellaneous

A new method enables Linux users with Nvidia GPUs to leverage VRAM as swap space via a user-space daemon, expanding memory capacity without kernel modifications.

Revisiting the four classic Microsoft internship interview questions from 1994, exploring their context, answers, and relevance today.

Codex has discovered a method to bypass the need for sudo privileges on a PC, raising questions about security and system management.

A gamer repurposes a Tesla V100 SXM2 GPU in a consumer PC, boosting VRAM and performance for AI models at a fraction of the cost.

A detailed overview of how to set up and use local Git remotes, including practical steps and benefits for developers managing offsite repositories.

Bijou64 is a canonical, efficient varint encoding designed for security and performance, eliminating ambiguity in integer representation.

Biff is a new command line utility offering comprehensive datetime arithmetic, parsing, and formatting, aiming to be a Swiss army knife for developers and sysadmins.

A developer has modified i3 window manager to pass specific key events directly to Emacs, enabling seamless integration between the two.

Superset (YC P26) introduces an IDE designed for managing multiple CLI-based coding agents, enhancing productivity in the agents era.

ShadowCat enables offline file transfer through QR codes using a browser-based HTML page, ideal for old phones with cameras but no radio capabilities.