Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,947 posts.
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
At ISC 2024, Intel announces Aurora is the fastest AI supercomputer, has broken the exascale barrier, and details the importance of an open ecosystem in HPC and AI.
What are the penalties in real-world use for running your code on Icestorm cores, using around 10% of the power used by Firestorms?
Rust struct serialization problem caused by many nullable SQL columns.
A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving this little bit of trivia from digital nirvana.
This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years
News and information from Gentoo Linux
By now it should be (hopefully) widely known that the term “zero-cost abstractions” is a misnomer. Although, to be clear, it's more of an unfortunate name.
Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD . This post is an English transcription of the original French slides that are available here .
In software, it is a common problem to want to remove specific characters from a string. To make the problem precise, let us consider the removal of all ASCII control characters and spaces. In practice, it means the removal of all byte values smaller or equal than 32. I covered a related problem before, the … Continue…
There's a network-server programming pattern which is so popular that it's the canonical approach towards writing network servers:
We estimate the magnitude of speed improvement for optimization solvers and computer hardware in the 35 years from 1989 to 2024.
Discover the tech stack used by CircleCI. Explore 34 tools across 4 categories.
Not just another Hadoop rant — I promise
Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5's VDO for storage optimization - save space, boost performance
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
Learn about the considerations and interop commands available when working across Windows and Linux file systems with WSL.
They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster.
XNU kernel buffer overflow, introduced in macOS 14.0 and fixed in macOS 14.5.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth release of the stable/14 branch.
