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Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution
Google networking leaders reflect on the milestones that led to Jupiter supporting 13 petabits per second bandwidth, and what comes next.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
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Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm …
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Adventures in Netflix
I’ve been watching a buttload of 40s movies over the past few months, and I was thinking about watching something really modern next. And then it occurred to me: How about if I watch all R…
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No More Full Table Vacuums in PostgreSQL
I just committed a very important patch to PostgreSQL. The short summary for the patch is " Don't vacuum all-frozen pages. " and it follows...
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Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python
Fernando Irarrázaval Stream of consciousness about Data Science, Python, and Economics.
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Blender 2.78 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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What are skiplists good for?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs.
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AI Meets WinDBG
Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.
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How I built the IMDb message boards, in 2001
Update: My erstwhile colleague Mathias wrote up his thoughts about his role in this story
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Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text
Posted by Jonathan Shen and Ruoming Pang, Software Engineers, on behalf of the Google Brain and Machine Perception TeamsGenerating very natural sou...
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Blender Lab
Introducing an innovation space within the Blender project.
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How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
Bayesian inference is a way to get sharper predictions from your data. It’s particularly useful when you don’t have as much data as you would like and want to juice every last bit of predictive strength from it.
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How I wrote Game Programming Patterns
Update 2014/04/28: In case you missed the link, the web site for my book is gameprogrammingpatterns.com .
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I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
Sometimes, I don’t know why I do things. It’s one of these times. A few months ago, Python 3.13 got its JIT engine, built with a new JIT compiler construction methodology (copy-patch, cf. research paper ). After reading the paper, I was sold and I just had to try it with PostgreSQL. And what a fun ride it’s been so…
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A kernel developer made my styluses work again on newer kernels
Both styluses of my XPPen Artist 24 Pro and XPPen Artist 16 Pro Gen2 styluses are now usable again on newer Linux kernels.
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Why I don't like smartphones
They are unequal devices. Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. In this regard they differ critically from PCs, because PCs are equal devices in the sense that the same device is used for creation and consumption. This means that anyone with a PC can create as well as consume, if they so wish. This…
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So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter
Some dumb lawyer figured it would be fun to give GDPR trolls a form letter to use to inflict maximum damage on unsuspecting companies. The reason why this is dumb is simple: the GDPR serves a legitimate need but by decreasing the signal:noise ratio handcrafted requests from users with a legitimate concern can get…
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Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
American and European semi-trucks are very different. You don‘t have to be a truck enthusiast or have brilliant understanding of the mechanical part of these machines to see that semi-trucks used in USA and Europe look very different. But why? Why different ideas about what the truck should look like prevailed in…
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The cult of dd (2017)
You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)) that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century.
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