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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 20 posts.
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Response Time Limits: Article by Jakob Nielsen
How users react to delays in a user interface, whether website or application. The 3 main response time limits are determined by human perceptual abilities.
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Profiling Go Programs
How to use Go's built-in profiler to understand and optimize your programs.
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Linux 3.8 Released
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux Kernel during the 2.6.x and 3.x development
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TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM
TRESOR is a secure implementation of AES which is resistant against cold boot attacks. The basic idea behind this implementation is to store the secret key inside CPU registers rather than in RAM.
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Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views
At more than 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we’ve learned a couple things about delivering comments at scale.
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Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native
As many of you are probably already aware, Mozilla has recently gotten into the mobile OS space with Firefox OS. Firefox OS is built using ...
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Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations
asm.js is a simple subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize, suitable for use as a compiler target from languages like C and C++. Earlier this year Firefox ...
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Megafail
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past few days, Kim Dotcom (of Megaupload infamy) has launched his new cloud storage site, Mega. Mega has an impressive sales pitch, promising secure cloud storage where only the user has the key to decrypt his or her files, and the encryption and decryption happens securely…
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Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want
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Why Cassandra Doesn't Need Vector Clocks
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
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