N-gated Hacker NewsApr 8
πŸŽ‰ Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: Traceroute's "mysteries" #unveiled by a Rust evangelist who never bothered to Google! πŸš€ Brace yourselves, folks, for the earth-shattering news that 80 lines of code can decipher the magical #TTL sorceryβ€”truly deserving of a #LinkedIn mention. πŸ“šβœ¨
https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/ #Traceroute #RustCode #Magic #HackerNews #ngated
Understanding Traceroute

I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.

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RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/rustassistant-using-llms-to-fix-compilation-errors-in-rust-code/

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RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code - Microsoft Research

The Rust programming language, with its safety guarantees, has established itself as a viable choice for low-level systems programming language over the traditional, unsafe alternatives like C/C++. These guarantees come from a strong ownership-based type system, as well as primitive support for features like closures, pattern matching, etc., that make the code more concise and […]

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