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Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it
People that listened to my (Armin Rigo) lightning talk at EuroPython know that suddenly, we have a plan to remove the Global Interpreter Loc...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,834 posts.
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Coding Machines
After a minute Patrick came back with a small dusty cardboard box. Dave and I stared as Patrick opened it and pulled out a network switch, the old kind from the days when they were made with metal cases. He plugged in the power supply and carefully straightened out a CAT -5 cable to hook the switch up to our network…
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Reprogramming a $13 consumer wifi-enabled outlet
The HTML5 Herald
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Why is memory reclamation so important for lock-free algorithms?
As it so happens, object lifetime tracking (or Memory Reclamation as I prefer to call it) is the current most difficult open problem in sha...
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Interactive Code Cells
Like Jupyter notebooks, but for any language.
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Forgejo
After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
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Look ma, no locks
We describe a systematic approach for replacing locks with tasks. In this approach thread blocking is replaced by properly scheduling of tasks.
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Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
the psql client version 18 comes with pipelining, which can speed up client-server communication. In this post, let's see how it works and how much can be g...
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Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go
Here at CloudFlare we are heavy users of the github.com/miekg/dns Go DNS library and we make sure to contribute to its development as much as possible. Therefore when Dmitry Vyukov published go-fuzz and started to uncover tens of bugs in the Go standard library, our task was clear.
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CSS for Internationalisation
I've come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than…
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Unfinished Business with Postgres
7 years ago I left Heroku. Heroku has had a lot of discussion over the past weeks about its demise, whether it was a success or failure, and the current state. Much of this was prompted by the recent, and on-going security incident, but as others have pointed out the product has been frozen in time for some years now…
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A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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Sabotage
In many places it seems to have become the norm to celebrate overwork, sleep deprivation and chronic stress. Ordinarily if you reveal that you are unhappy, unproductive and causing yourself mental and physical harm, people will be concerned and try to intervene. However, the expected response to this kind of suffering…
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How RLHF Works
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
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Making Your Own Tools
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The Elements of APIs (2021)
Would you like the design a web API that is reliable and pleasant to use? I have some ideas for you.
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Accelerated “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in CUDA
Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the…
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Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway
technology blog about ruby, scala, java, golang, software engineering and programming in general
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Flow Field Pathfinding
You may know me for my interactive tutorials. But before that, I was writing visual but non-interactive tutorials. In particular, there wasn’t a lot of information about A* on the web, so I decided to collect all my notes about pathfinding [1] together in one place in the 1990s. But then in the 2010s I started making…
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Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine
After having fun reverse engineering the Comprehend Adventure game (Recomprehend) I was looking for a new DOS game reverse engineering project. Over the years various people have reversed a lot of …
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Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate
Started on 9th May, 2019 it took almost five months to finish. It again puts the tutorial in a place I am happy with for now, and it will likely stay there for quite some time. Given the priorities and circumstances in my life, I don’t expect to keep working on it for time to come.
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Reducing the maximum latency of a bound buffer in Erlang
Recently I came across two great articles on the Pusher blog: Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three and Golang’s Real-time GC in Theory and Practice . The articles tell the story of how Pusher engineers reimplemented their message bus. The first take was done in Haskell. During…
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IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)
The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel.