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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
We're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort
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How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
A blog by and for database architects.
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Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
CCC 5.1.27 and CCC 6 can make bootable copies of the system on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs (11.3+) right now, and we'll continue to support that functiona...
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Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Initial kernel and subsystem support for new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 posted for review. Learn what’s in the patches and how you can start working with them.
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DTrace on Windows
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10
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Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: Amazon Braket – A fully managed service that allows scientists…
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Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
Calculations in Google Sheets were initially done on the server, then on the client in JavaScript, and now on the client in WebAssembly Garbage Collection. This case study explains how and why.
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
This RFD describes futurelock : a type of deadlock where a resource owned by Future A is required for another Future B to proceed, while the Task responsible for both Futures is no longer polling A . Futurelock is a particularly subtle risk in writing asynchronous Rust.
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass produced AMP architecture and as we’ll see next, it raises the bar for how hard multi-core programing is.
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Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123
Prisma Cloud is the most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for code to cloud security in any cloud, multicloud, and hybrid environment.
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SQLite: Wal2 Mode
"Wal2" mode is very similar to "wal" mode. To change a database to wal2 mode, use the command:
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IO Devices and Latency
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
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Faster JavaScript Calls
Faster JavaScript calls by removing the arguments adaptor frame
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The Mystery of the Slow Downloads
A few months ago, a complaint started popping up from users downloading or updating our apps: “Geez, your downloads are really slow!”
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) d…
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Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
Lots of important MemShrink stuff has happened in the last 27 days: 22 bugs were fixed , and some of them were very important indeed.