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How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021)
Fast compact external SSDs are prone to thermal throttling. This is demonstrated during tests writing 96 files, when transfer rates fell from 2 GB/s to around 700 MB/s.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)
Description of the film grain synthesis algorithm in AV1. This page provides information on the film grain synthesis algorithm and links for further study
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The Fourth Operation: What Comes After Exponentiation
Tetration -- repeated exponentiation a fractional number of times.
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The one about Lisp interactivity
Lisp REPLs are on the collective lips of the WWW lately and so I thought I’d add my little bit of chatter to the mix as well. 1
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Hacks for Engineering Estimates
Engineers often have to ask each other for “estimates”– rough projections for how long projects will take. While some teams do rigorous estimation rituals to varying degrees of success, many situation
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Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers
I have lots of little ideas for various pet projects, most of which go nowhere ( Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] being the exception), so I'm always looking for the fastest, cheapest way to get up and running. Last month as part of my blog post on How
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Installing an Ethernet card and video card and other upgrades for a Mac SE/30
But there’s only one slot, you say? It’s all a matter of using a clever part to adapt a pass-through.
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The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB)
The problem with building a device that is good at keeping secrets is that it turns users into the weakest link.
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Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi)
Creating the PiRS232 and playing with the Pi over serial has been leading towards an idea - I wanted to create a small, battery powered device, a sidecar that I could carry with my Psion and use as portable Linux terminal. I also managed to turn it into an Internet...
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Faster CRC32-C on x86
Computing the CRC-32C of a 4KB buffer on a modern x86 chip can be done as a simple loop around the crc32 instruction:
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eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries
Modern browsers are some of the most complicated programs ever written. For example, the main Firefox library on my system is over 130Mbytes. Doing 130MB of IO poorly can be quite a performance hit, even with SSDs! :). Few people seem to understand how memory-mapped IO works. There are no pre-canned tools to observe…
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Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle
If you know how to use a command line, you can build one
3613
Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists
A neural network written in pure Lisp without built-in numbers using only atoms and lists in SectorLISP, a 512-byte Lisp interpreter written by the authors of the SectorLISP project.
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How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
It's not as bad as a lot of people are saying
3615
Science is political, and that's a bad thing
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
3616
Let’s Not Have a Beer
For the first time, I won a major raffle at a recent conference. However, I had to give the prize back since it was a beer dispenser and I don’t drink. If your reaction after reading the last line was “Why don’t you drink?” or “Most of us do and it’s your choice that you missed out.”, then this blog is for you. I’m…
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My New Old Macintosh SE/30 Computer
Acquiring and tricking out a 1989 Apple Macintosh SE/30, the greatest Mac of all time
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Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard
Why unsafe Rust is a complex and user unfriendly experience.
3619
Voting from Antarctica
How to vote back home while you're in Antarctica!
3620
Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906
There are a lot of ludicrously terrible government laws, regulations and policies across all the domains of life.
3621
No is a complete sentence
Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway? Or has someone tried to get you to help with something and impres…
3622
Monorepos in JavaScript and TypeScript
A tutorial how to use a monorepo architecture in frontend JavaScript and TypeScript with tools like npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, Turborepo/NX/Lerna, Git Submodules, ...
3623
King George and Tsar Nicolas Looked a Lot Alike
haha, everyone says we look alike but i dont see it
3624
Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener
An interview with Keith Blount, the founder, director and lead developer of Literature & Latte.
3625
Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)
Every Bitcoin transaction is stored in the distributed database known as the Bitcoin blockchain. However, people have found ways to hack ...
3626
A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
Less than a week ago OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world, and it kicked off what feels like a seismic shift in many people’s understand of the capabilities of large …
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Company, Team, Self
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself a helpful decision-making tool, and almost always led to the…
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How to avoid being a secretary for engineers (2018)
If we just see our task as documenting solutions that engineers have solved, it removes the creativity and critical thinking dimension from tech comm. The creative dimension in tech comm comes into play as we identify and solve tech comm challenges, such as devising ways to simplify complexity or otherwise improve the…
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Comparing TCP and QUIC
There is a common view out there that the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000) is just another refinement to the original TCP transport protocol [ 1 ] [ 2 ]. I find it hard to agree with this sentiment, and for me QUIC represents a significant shift in the set of transport capabilities available to applications in terms…
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