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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 173 posts.
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System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively
"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003)
Finally the ultra low profile memory I was waiting for arrived and so at last I had Windows XP running inside my "Windows XP Box", and one of the most compact Mini-ITX projects ever. The cooling solution with two case fans and a ducted CPU fan works like a dream and is both quiet and effective. So far it has shown no…
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This Summer in Redox: A Complete Rewrite of the Kernel
The Redox official website
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PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS
Hey TrueOS Community! I just wanted to take a few minutes to address what some of you may have already guessed. With a heavy heart, the TrueOS Project’s core
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Intro to kernel debugging
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RethinkDB 2.1.5 performance and scalability
This report describes a recent effort that the RethinkDB team took to measure our database product, RethinkDB, under different workloads and in different clustering configurations. We seek to provide a general overview of RethinkDB’s performance metrics for a variety of workloads and potential use cases. In this…
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Qubes OS 3.1 has been released
I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing Qubes OS 3.1! The major new architectural feature of this release has been the introduction of the Qubes Management infrastructure, which is based on the popular Salt management software. In Qubes 3.1, this management stack makes it possi...
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Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption
The V8 team analyzed and significantly reduced the memory footprint of several websites that were identified as representative of modern web development patterns.
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Building an OpenBSD Router
The Ultimate OpenBSD Router
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Dragon: A distributed graph query engine
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Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
Learn about the considerations and interop commands available when working across Windows and Linux file systems with WSL.
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
This post guides you through monitoring and tuning the Linux network stack with the focus on receiving data.
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Living Without Atomic Clocks
If someone knows even a little about Spanner, the first question they have is: "How does CockroachDB provide external consistency without atomic clocks?"
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Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android
The Superpowered Media Server solves Android's audio latency problems.
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (2007)
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages
Distributed computing and designing a system that supports modern commerce and other high-priority applications remains one of the most difficult tasks in computing. We provide expert tips.
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Scalable Live Video Streaming Using NGINX and MPEG-DASH/HLS
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.