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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. 822 posts.
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More on Dota 2
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Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy
What users often call a “seamless” or “hitless” reload is a configuration update or a service upgrade performed with no impact on user experience.
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Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
Firefox Quantum was released today. It’s the fastest Firefox yet built on a completely overhauled engine and a beautiful new design. As part of our focu
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Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information
For years, Comcast and other large telecommunication companies around the world have injected javascript into your web browsing experience to serve
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At Scale, Rare Events Aren’t Rare
I’m a connoisseur of failure. I love reading about engineering failures of all forms and, unsurprisingly, I’m particularly interested in data center faults. It’s not that I delight in engineering failures. My interest is driven by believing that the more faults we all understand, the more likely we can engineer…
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Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
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Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly ...
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Building a QNX 7 Desktop
Describes the process of building a QNX 7 x86_64 machine from (almost) scratch.
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Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
Did you hear the one about the tulip bubble? It’s almost certainly a myth. It is myths, though, that explain why cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware.
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Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2)
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIn this blog post we'll continue our journey into gaining re...
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What makes a good REPL?
Dear Reader: although this post mentions Clojure as an example, it is not specifically about Clojure; please do not make it part of a language war. If you know other configurations which allow for a productive REPL experience, please describe them in the comments!
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Robust Adversarial Examples
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TreeMaker: Origami Design Software
In 1989, I wrote an article for the magazine Engineering & Science about the state of technical folding, which, even then, seemed to be progressing by leaps and bounds due to an infusion of scientific and mathematical principles. In recounting some of the connections between origami, math, and technology, I wrote:
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Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
A review of Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
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x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Three-Valued Logic
Making decision despite missing SQL data (NULL): How to avoid OR…IS NULL in the WHERE clause.
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Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality
This post takes a short break from ASDL to expand on one of my Hacker News comments.
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Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow
Posted by Asim Shankar and Wolff Dobson, Google Brain Team UPDATE, April 3 2018: Please see the official user guide for more up-to-date code examp...
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Insert D-Wave Post Here
In the two months since I last blogged, the US has continued its descent into madness. Yet even while so many certainties have proven ephemeral as the morning dew—the US’…
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Lead Bullets (2011)
Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the Power Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a...