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Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...
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Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? Think again: Even…
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1
An API gateway routes client requests intelligently and handles functions such as load balancing, security, and rate limiting.
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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.
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Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
Nix users value its isolated, repeatable builds and simple sharing of development environments. Nix makes it easy to go back in time and rebuild software from years ago without issue.
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Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
Hi I'm Caleb Doxsey and welcome to my website. I'm a software developer. If you'd like to contact me, you can email me here: [email protected] .
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Magic Leap Review Part I
I have been studying the Magic Leap One (ML1) for a few weeks, taking over 1,000 photos and making many measurements. I’m bursting with things I want to talk about, so I am planning to releas…
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How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)
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A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management
Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project ZeroThis blogpost describes a way to exploit a Linux kernel b...
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Questions
Some questions that I find interesting. I've omitted some that are related to Stripe. ( Pointers to interesting readings on these topics are always welcome, as are pointers to responses.)
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OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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Rust Ownership Explained with Python
Mostly software: Rust, machine learning, and P2P systems. Previously, games and cocktails.
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UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
Thames House, Offices of MI5. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF
opensnoop in pure C using eBPF
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Solving My Email Problem
Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a TODO list. Or at least my inbox is a TODO list and email is the protocol for putting stuff on it. Here’s the problem. It is a s**tty TODO list. Any one of you can put something on my TODO list. And I don’t want that.
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U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year
Congress approved legislation that will renew and strengthen the federal Open Textbook Pilot, which provides grants to expand OER in higher education.
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Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the (lengthy) release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just …
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The relative performance of C and Rust
My blog post on falling in love with Rust got quite a bit of attention – with many being surprised by what had surprised me as well: the high performance of my naive Rust versus my (putatively less naive?) C. However, others viewed it as irresponsible to report these performance differences, believing that these…
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But don’t let that distract you; it was designed to kill people (2017)
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.
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How YC Has Changed
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
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New Standard Deal
We are changing the standard deal at YC and increasing our investment from $120K to $150K. The $150K investment for 7% will be made on a post-money cap safe. We believe the post-money safe is simpler, making ownership and dilution easier to understand. This new deal will start with our Winter 2019 batch, and replaces…
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