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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. 101 posts.
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re
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Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
200 SQL statements per webpage is excessive for client/server database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server.
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The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)
The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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Asynchronous Everything (2015)
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
[Note: there have been several developments in this space since thisarticle was published. See A Tail Calling Interpreter For Python (And Other Updates) for...
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ZGC – What's new in JDK 16
JDK 16 is out, and as usual, each new release comes with a bunch of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. ZGC received 46 enhancements and 25 bug fixes. Here I’ll cover a few of the more interesting enhancements.
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
Apple’s latest line of Macs includes their in-house “M1” system-on-chip, featuring a custom GPU. This poses a problem for those of us in the Asahi Linux project who wish to run Linux on our devices, as this custom Apple GPU has neither public documentation nor open source drivers. Some speculate it might descend from…
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux
The covers a brief history of DNS on Linux systems and what steps Tailscale is taking to ensure it is configured consistently.
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Étoilé on Gnustep
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.
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
GNOME filepicker and my toilets are broken because of culture of mediocrity.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6
Take a rip-roarin' tour through hundreds of PRs worth of performance improvements for .NET 6.
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It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
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…
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I/O Rings: When One I/O Operation is Not Enough
I usually write about security features or techniques on Windows. But today’s blog is not directly related to any security topics, other than the usual added risk that any new system call introduces. However, it’s an interesting addition to the I/O world in Windows that could be useful for developers and I thought it…
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
This post explains the project's motivation from several perspectives. Unix shell is an old and successful technology, so there are many ways of looking at it.
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Signals and Threads Podcast
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
For the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the first fusion power plant that can produce more energy than…
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects in Multicore OCaml
Algebraic effects and handlers provide a modular abstraction for expressing effectful computation, allowing the programmer to separate the expression of an effectful computation from its implementation. In this post, I will present an extension to OCaml for programming with linear algebraic effects, and demonstrate…
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.