Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
Text-to-speech systems across the industry typically rely on GPUs or specialized hardware to generate state-of-the-art speech in real-time production. We solved core efficiency challenges to process one second of audio in 500 milliseconds — using only CPUs.
One under-appreciated characteristic of early microprocessors is the difficulty of distributing power inside the integrated circuit. While...
Almost 25 years after Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, another seminal man vs. machine matchup: Neither competitor has much to be proud of here. White has a poor opening. Black screws up and loses his queen…
How we leveraged a textbook data structure in our core platform and achieved a 15x speed up for a key data processing step.
The HIV Prevention Trials Network study (HPTN 084) on the safety and efficacy of the long-acting injectable antiretroviral drug cabotegravir (CAB LA), for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in HIV-uninfected women, was stopped early by the trial Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) as results showed CAB LA to be…
It's late 2020 and you just got a brand-new Mac with Apple's own ARM processors. Exciting! But what will development be like?
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You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
A guide to effective pair-programming
I might be well behind others on this subject, but I’m trying to catch up. I just finished a book entitled Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: how microfinance lost its way and betrayed th…
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This is a guest blog post from Brooke Kuhlmann. Enjoy. Dear developer, Of the many techniques you’ll pick up over the course of your career, one worth investing in early is journaling. Journa…
Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful and heavily used tool for manipulating strings in JavaScript. This post describes how we updated the RegExp engine in ...
The microservices honeymoon period is over. Uber is refactoring thousands of microservices into a more manageable solution [1]; Kelsey Hightower is predicting monoliths are the future [2]; and even Sam Newman is declaring that microservices should never be the default choice, but rather a last resort [3]. What’s going…
Deep dives into Cryptography and Privacy.
Buckle up kids, as this is a tale. As you may know, I have a lovely podcast at ...
I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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I've previously covered writing my own virtual CPU , but I never really fleshed it out and it was never a real thing... For a while, wel...
