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Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust
How Rust compiles to assembly: enum memory layout, smart pointers, static vs dynamic dispatch, vtables, closures, vector iteration and async state machines.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 164 posts.
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Designing a new concurrent data structure
How to design a lock-free data structure? A detective story for curious developers.
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ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets
How moving from Vnode-based replication to tablets helps dynamically distribute data across the cluster, ultimately increasing ScyllaDB’s elasticity.
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What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intel machines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?
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Building big systems with remote hardware teams
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need. This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need create some daily efficiency challenges for our team. As a remote-first company, we’re…
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Legacy Software Systems: How to Live with Aging Software Architecture?
Legacy software systems in 2026: why they are still used, myths about legacy and Java, tips from our engineers, and when to upgrade Java.
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Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 brings a bit of Rust in the kernel
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 to the Canary Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. Starting with to
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Vulnerabilities in the TPM 2.0 reference implementation code
In this blog post we discuss the details of two vulnerabilities we discovered in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference implementation code. These two vulnerabilities, an out-of-bounds write (CVE-2023-1017) and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2023-1018), affected several TPM 2.0 software implementations (such as…
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Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?
MPEG-TS is still used extensively, even in “modern” transport mechanisms such as SRT, RIST and Zixi. Why though?
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Apache Pinot 1.0
Introducing Apache Pinot 1.0 Release
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What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?
A comparative study of processor architectures.
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)
Discover how Expensify achieved remarkable scaling: 4M QPS on one server! Dive into optimizing SQLite for impressive performance gains.
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Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.