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Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite
Discover the power of Snapdragon X Elite with upstreamed Linux kernel support. Explore areas of focus and unlock new potential with Snapdragon Linux today.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 27 posts.
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SQLite: Wal2 Mode
"Wal2" mode is very similar to "wal" mode. To change a database to wal2 mode, use the command:
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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
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Unix and Multics (2019)
Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.
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Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
Calculations in Google Sheets were initially done on the server, then on the client in JavaScript, and now on the client in WebAssembly Garbage Collection. This case study explains how and why.
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How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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The V8 Sandbox
V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs
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Why Oxide Chose Illumos
Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…
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Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.
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DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future
Today the Direct3D and HLSL teams are excited to share some insight into the next big step for GPU programmability. Once Shader Model 7 is released,
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Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome
Compression on the web is getting a big boost from shared dictionary compression. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they could substantially reduce load times even further than standard compression for both static and dynamic resources on the web.
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It Can Be Done (2003)
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
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macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes
Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update
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GPUs Go Brrr
how make gpu fast?
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Sudo for Windows
Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a
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Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed to evolve with data.
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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
Smudge.ai is a Chrome extension that gives you ChatGPT-powered shortcuts in your right-click menu.
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Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary
This post is not going to be about what’s wrong with individual databases. There are so many databases and so many individual API issues, operational problems, and arbitrary limitations that it wou…
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Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
Building a lock free continuous ring buffer
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A transport protocol's view of Starlink
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
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Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale
The Microsoft Azure Core Upstream team is excited to announce the Hyperlight project, an open-source Rust library you can use to create very small VMs for embedded functions. Learn more.
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A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
Another rogue patcher.
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Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis
Maximize the performance of your hardware with memory access amortization