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P vs. NP
For those who just want the survey itself, not the backstory, it’s here. (Note: Partly because of the feedback I’ve gotten on this blog, it’s now expanded to 121 pages!) Upda…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,859 posts.
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How the SQLite virtual machine works
Let's look at how SQLite parses, optimizes, and compiles every query that it receives.
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Seven habits of highly fraudulent users
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser. We think it’s worthwhile to work on moving the ...
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Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.
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A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table
Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table. This came about because last year I wrote the fastest hash table (I still make that claim) and this year one of the organizers of the C++Now conference asked…
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Announcing MoSQL
MongoDB → PostgreSQL streaming replication - stripe-archive/mosql
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So you wanna build a local RAG?
How to build a RAG system that's fully self-hosted.
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DrawAFish.com Postmortem
A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.
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Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't
I was reading Hacker News a few weeks ago and I stumbled on a story: Amit Gupta needs you. It turns out that Amit is the thoroughly likeable founder of Photojojo. Amit had the double misfortune to: a) have acute leukemia, and b) be South Asian. The problem with the first one is obvious. The problem with the second one…
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I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
Almost every year a joke RFC is made on April 1st (these have caught on so well, that it’s now common to see more than one of these every year), or April Fool’s Day, and some of them are pretty great. Here are some of my favourites:
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Introducing Google Command line Tool
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
Smudge.ai is a Chrome extension that gives you ChatGPT-powered shortcuts in your right-click menu.
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The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and …
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CockroachDB license change
What you need to know about the changes that happened to CockroachDB Enterprise this past November.
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
Monetary Policy 3 created a self-reinforcing demand explosion that is getting harder, not easier, for supply to keep up with.
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Cargo airships could be big
A capital-intensive, high-risk way to revolutionize global commerce
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How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb
How I lost $950 in about an hour on AirBnB by stupidly thinking it worked like a hotel
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Weirdos in the depression
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
Arm unveils its first-ever public CPU forward-looking roadmap and performance numbers.
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I am not a supplier
For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.
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Databricks acquires Neon
Databricks agrees to acquire Neon, a serverless Postgres database company, to bring speed and flexibility to production workloads.