Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,231 posts.
This post is about uninitialized memory, but also about the semantics of highly optimized “low-level” languages in general. I will try to convince you that reasoning by “what the hardware d...
Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind.
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
That's a interesting question I'm willing to spend some of my time on. Someone at StumbleUpon emitted the hypothesis that with all the impr...
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In this post I want to explore the costs of threads on modern Linux machines, both in terms of time and space. The background context is designing high-load concurrent servers, where using threads is one of the common schemes .
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
This is an essential truth of async in its purest form: There is no thread.
In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build a comet application using mochiweb, where each mochiweb connection is registered with a router which dispatches messages to various users. We end up with a working application that…
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.
GNOME filepicker and my toilets are broken because of culture of mediocrity.
We're open sourcing postgres-wasm, a PostgresQL server that runs inside a browser, with our friends at Snaplet.
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Design differences of containers, Zones, Jails and VMs.
Rosetta 2 is remarkably fast when compared to other x86-on-ARM emulators. I’ve spent a little time looking at how it works, out of idle curiosity, and found it to be quite unusual, so I figur…
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Most SQL database engines are implemented as a separate server process. Programs that want to access the database communicate with the server using some kind of interprocess communication (typically TCP/IP) to send requests to the server and to receive back results. SQLite does not work this way. With SQLite, the…
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIt’s a well understood fact that platform security is ...
Take a rip-roarin' tour through hundreds of PRs worth of performance improvements for .NET 6.
Update (2016-10-07): The official FAQ has an entry for this exact problem now. I'll leave this post as more curiously minded people.
Exactly-once is a hard problem to solve, but we've done it. Available now in Apache Kafka 0.11, exactly-once semantics.
A recent blog post posed the question Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?. It triggered a very interesting discussion on Hacker News.
Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here’s how we built it—and why.
A glance at this year's OSDI program shows that Operating Systems are a small niche topic for this conference, not even meriting their own full session. This is unfortunate because good OS design has always been driven by the underlying hardware, and right now that hardware is almost unrecognizable from ten years ago…
Building systems that manage globally distributed data, provide data consistency and are also highly available is really hard. The beauty of the cloud is that someone else can build that for you.
I’ve been discussing Jepsen and partition tolerance with Peter Bailis over the past few weeks, and I’m honored to present this post as a collaboration between the two of us. We’d also like to extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed their research and experience to this piece.
