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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6
Take a rip-roarin' tour through hundreds of PRs worth of performance improvements for .NET 6.
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Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
Modern applications often spread state across a variety of systems: databases, caches, queues, data warehouses, search indices, and so on. Coordinating these systems is challenging: caches are often stale, the analytics platform might lag days behind the primary database, the search index might lose data, and…
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of…
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How We Ported Linux to the M1
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
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Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10
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PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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Half a million lines of Go
By Kevin Dangoor Back in December 2019, I first wrote about Goliath, Khan Academy’s project to migrate our ... Read more
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Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (2011)
Fan grills are a component in a computer that is often underestimated in terms of their contribution to both system noise and airflow. Most often, grills are chosen based on aesthetics with only a small thought towards performance. In this article, we will be examining nine different grills to determine the effects of…
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BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
A look at Google's delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm, called BBR.
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macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise.
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How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls
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Building durable workflows on Postgres
Explaining the concept of a Postgres-backed durable execution system like DBOS and comparing it to external workflow orchestration systems like Temporal.
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Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way
Adventures in getting to know our database
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An Update on Our Outage
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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Flash-Free Video in 2016
Read about how we turned off Flash support for VHS, the New York Times video player.
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Improved Process Isolation in Firefox 100
Firefox uses a multi-process model for additional security and stability while browsing. Web Content is rendered in separate processes.
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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
After about two years since the last beta, and only about a week after Haiku’s 25th birthday, Haiku R1/beta6 has been released! See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and …
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Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
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What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
By Asa Dotzler and Brad Lassey Electrolysis is the project name for Mozilla's efforts to split Firefox into multiple processes to improve responsiveness, stability, and security. The first phase of ...
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.