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Is Software Engineering Possible?
When the textile industry arose in the 18th century, craft was the norm in manufacturing. As the industrial revolution progressed, one after another sector of the economy made the transition from c…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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A Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed history
This article has previously been published in Norwegian in Aftenposten Historie no. 6, 2015 and Biolog no, 1, 2014. Due to several reques...
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Neural Translation of Musical Style
Can we teach a neural network to perform like a human?
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Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
You can use of UUIDs as the primary key to avoid database scale problems. But should you? I propose an alternative.
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The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business
Monitor agents, cron jobs, websites, APIs, and everything in between. Jobs, uptime checks, heartbeats, status pages and analytics in one tool.
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Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
Update2: Stripe sent an update and it sounds like Coinbase will credit the BTC to my Coinbase account soon:
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Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.
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Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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A theory of modern Golang
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
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Reading OpenBSD source code daily
I made a new years resolution to read at least one C source file from OpenBSD daily.The goal was to both get better at C and to contribute more to the base s...
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PyPy v5.8 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.8 (an interpreter supporting Python 2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.8 (an inte...
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Can you figure out how this single part boost converter works?
If you think this is easy, then I think you are missing something. This is hard. You need to know your hardware intimately to figure this one out.
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How Torch broke ls and made me vulnerable
If used incorrectly, LD_LIBRARY_PATH can cause a plethora of issues
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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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Working with time in Postgres
A massive amount of reporting queries, whether really intensive data analysis, or just basic insights into your business involving looking at data over a certain time period. Postgres has really rich support for dealing with time out of the box, something that’s often very underweighted when dealing with a database…
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Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB
This blog post outlines how CockroachDB executes queries and shares Cockroach Labs' vision for future work on distributed processing.
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How to Version an API
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
I like Chrome. It’s a great browser. But it’s not so good that it deserves to be the only browser. And that’s the unfortunate opportunity we, people browsing the web, are opening for Google by so o…
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JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
A review of Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
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Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis
In May, some friends and I built Tagger News, a real-time automatic classifier of Hacker News articles based on their text (see here for more about how we built it). This process started me down some interesting paths, particularly analyzing trends in titles. By finding words that became more or less common in Hacker…
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Rust Performance Pitfalls
Overall, Rust is pretty good for performance. Write the most simple, naive stuff, and it will usually run within a factor of two from optimized C/C++ code, without any further performance work on the code. With some investment into optimizations, matching or exceeding C’s speed should be possible in most cases…
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Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
Safety gives security teams real-time visibility and governance over every AI tool, package, MCP server, and IDE extension across their developer fleet.
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Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async
Adding new code to Rails controllers can slow your pages down. Here's how to make rendering your Rails pages faster.