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Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
It is now ??????????.??? ( ????-??-??T??:??:??.???Z ) in Unix time , according to your local system clock.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,897 posts.
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Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (2005)
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
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Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
May 20, 2024: As of September 2022, DynamoDB now supports 100 items per transactions. March 13, 2020: Post updated to clarify how to use transactions with global tables and the increase in the maximum number of items per transaction from 10 to 25. Over the years, customers have used Amazon DynamoDB for lots of…
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Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Authenticate and authorize your users with Supabase Auth
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LuaJit 2.0 is out
LuaJIT is only made available as source code from a git repository. To access this repository, you need to install the git command for your operating system. Please refer to the git version control system documentation for details.
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Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages
A discussion of some of the downsides of Zig
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Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
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Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2
For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump. The final part in this series takes you through fuzzing rust-minidump.
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Experimenting with Node.js
Using Node.js and a bit of jQuery to annoy you.
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A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (2012)
Mathematicians study a variety of different mathematical structures, but perhaps the structures that are most commonly associated with mathematics are the number systems, such as the integers $late…
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Brain vs. Deep Learning (2015)
This blog post compares deep learning to the brain and derives an estimate of computational power for the brain which is used to predict the singularity.
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Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
The sole purpose of this blog is to host a single article..
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Docker in Production: An Update
The previous article Docker in Production: A History of Failure was quite a hit. After long discussions, hundreds of feedbacks, thousands of comments, meetings with various individuals and major pl…
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Computers Can Be Understood
Computers and computer systems are build up from deterministic, comprehensible, building blocks. Their operations and behaviors can be understood and reasoned about. I relate my personal beliefs and mindset on this point, and explore some manifestations and ramifications of this philosophy.
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Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)
How to organise and deploy dotfiles using GNU stow.
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Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
Backpropagation is the key algorithm that makes training deep models computationally tractable. For modern neural networks, it can make training with gradient descent as much as ten million times faster, relative to a naive implementation. That’s the difference between a model taking a week to train and taking 200,000…
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Design and Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
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Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres
Durable execution with just postgres.
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Faster Integer Parsing
Back with a post after 6 years of silence. If you had to parse a microsecond-resolution epoch timestamp as quickly as possible, how would you do it? We’ll take a look at using compiler intrinsics to do it in log(n) time.