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9 stories and discussions about ports, aggregated from every source we track.

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The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM

30 points•pjmlp•11 days ago•34 comments•
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<p>A contributor proposed a new OpenBSD port for uutils, the Rust reimplementations of GNU coreutils. The proposal met firm resistance: Stuart Henderson called it unusable, explaining that GNU coreutils exists mainly to stabilize GNU-sensitive build environments. Theo de Raadt went further arguing that nobody wants subtly differently-behaving utilities in their pipelines and that ports developers would be stuck maintaining the result.</p>

20 points•spikewall•about 19 hours ago•30 comments
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Base vs ports LLVM in OpenBSD, and why we still need both

14 points•fcambus•over 4 years ago•7 comments
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Four read-only Apache Iceberg tools bound into Google ADK, AWS Strands and Microsoft Agent Framework, run against five catalogs, 360 timed runs. Building the agent ports and running it does not; speed follows the model and how much it writes; the storage wiring under the tools is the per-cloud work.

7 points•xbill•15 days ago•1 comment
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Ethernet ports are still desirable on desktop PCs, hanging on alongside the likes of the 3.5mm audio jack and IEC mains connector.

4 points•Brajeshwar•about 9 hours ago•1 comment•
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3 points•signa11•about 15 hours ago•0 comments•
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A free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows what’s running on localhost: every dev server’s port, project, git branch, memory and the Claude Code, Codex or Conductor session that started it. Stop the ones you…

2 points•tomjohndesign•2 days ago•1 comment•
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Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

2 points•consumer451•11 days ago•0 comments•

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