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The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (2016)
Posted by James Forshaw, path’ological reverse engineer.How the Win32 APIs process file pat...
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 211 posts.
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Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
With Sophos Cloud Native Security, you can easily integrate protection across multiple environments while minimizing detection time and response.
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Project Zipline – High-throughput low-latency compression
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable.
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Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
Explore how our customers use TiDB to handle their mission-critical workloads.
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Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved
Last month, I sat down and decided to at the very least attempt to fix our XHCI (USB 3 host controller) bus driver. Issues with it have been the most significant problem users have been facing, as most hardware made post-2012 has an XHCI chip as the …
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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
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Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license
A realtime server for the modern web
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Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL
YugabyteDB 2.0 released. Read to learn about production-ready YSQL, performance benchmarks, Jepsen results, and Beta feature previews
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Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
2019-09-05: YugaByte’s blog post states YugaByte DB “passes Jepsen tests”. We feel obligated to state that YugaByte DB’s Jepsen test suite does not pass, though it may in the future. Race conditions in YugaByte DB’s schema system can cause correctness errors. For example, inserting rows into a freshly-created table…
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Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
Linux uses dm-crypt in order to provide transparent disk or partition encryption. What are the options in case you need to recover passphrase from such encryption? There are already ready-made tools, but we have also produced and published our own in order to support newer LUKS format/ciphers/hashing.
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Computer Latency at a Human Scale
We help businesses turn data into decisions and decisions into growth, combining deep expertise, AI capabilities, and executional excellence. Contact us today.
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Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Linux 5.2 released: list of changes
List of changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 5.2 development cycle
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How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010)
It's easy to append bytes to the end of a file: Just open it for writing, seek to the end, and start writing. It's also easy to delete bytes from the end
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The Consul outage that never happened
Sometimes a good plan is the best tool for the job.
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Coreboot 4.11
The coreboot project is proud to announce to have released coreboot 4.11. This release cycle was a bit shorter to get closer to our regular schedule of releasing in spring and autumn. Since 4.10 there were 1630 new commits by over 130 developers. Of these, about 30 contributed to coreboot for the
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Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
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Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly,
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
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The largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
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Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because their production depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).