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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox
Posted by Mark Brand, Exploit Technique Archaeologist.IntroductionAfter discovering a collection ...
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Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available
Today, we’re excited to report the availability of our ARM64-native build of Firefox for Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 Always Connected PCs in our beta release channel, a channel aimed at developers or early tech adopters to test upcoming features before they’re released to consumers.
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NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD
NVMM provides the infrastructure needed for both the kernel driver and the userland emulators.
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A fork() in the road
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
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HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
A binary-compatible unikernel
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PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi
Have you ever wondered how well PostgreSQL performs on a Raspberry Pi 3B ? Oh. You haven't? Oh well, I asked myself that question and put it to the test. This post covers how I used pgbench to answer this question and the results of what I found.
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Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver
Our discovery of two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in a driver highlights the strength of Microsoft Defender ATP’s sensors. These sensors expose anomalous behavior and give SecOps personnel the intelligence and tools to investigate threats, as we did.
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Splitting atoms in XNU
Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project ZeroTL;DRA locking bug in the XNU virtual memory subsystem all...
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
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Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
WebAssembly is an assembly language for a conceptual machine, not a physical one. This is why it can be run across a variety of different machine architectures. WebAssembly needs a ...
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Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.1.9
2019-04-10: The long fork test used in this analysis contained a bug which caused it to (in many cases) fail to identify long fork anomalies. We have re-checked YugaByte DB 1.1.15.0-b16 with a corrected checker, and its long fork tests still pass.
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We improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70%
In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.
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Redox OS 0.5.0
The Redox official website
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Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3
We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.
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Computer Latency at a Human Scale
We help businesses turn data into decisions and decisions into growth, combining deep expertise, AI capabilities, and executional excellence. Contact us today.
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When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters
This is part two in my series of articles about bytecode interpreters, based on a small stack virtual machine which I have nicknamed PM…
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Vertically Scaling PostgreSQL
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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Project Zipline – High-throughput low-latency compression
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable.
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A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster
Building a 4-node cluster for experimenting with the distributed operating system.
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JIT-Less V8
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
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Better web video with AV1 codec
Learn to use AV1 to make videos on your website smaller and better quality. CLI instructions and cross-browser tricks.
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DTrace on Windows
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10
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Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved
Last month, I sat down and decided to at the very least attempt to fix our XHCI (USB 3 host controller) bus driver. Issues with it have been the most significant problem users have been facing, as most hardware made post-2012 has an XHCI chip as the …