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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 498 posts.
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Book of the Runtime – Internals of the .Net Runtime not in the documentation
The Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com are really fantastic lately. ...
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The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)
I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006. The most frustrating year of those seven was the ...
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Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many applications
Hmph! Not sure which one is "correct" there... hmm... If you use kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst for the CGBitmapContext rather than kCGImageAlphaNoneFirst, then it looks closer to the original, maybe. ? Also other caveat: NSBitmapImageRep can't seem to deal with the ARGB format either, so if you use that you need to…
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What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?
This post is a slightly edited version of my November presentation to the San Francisco chapter of Papers We Love.
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Beringei: A high-performance time series storage engine
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Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload
In 2017, the toolbox for making sure your web page loads fast includes everything from minification and asset optimization to caching, CDNs, code splitting and tree shaking. Understanding what goes ...
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Hotswapping Haskell
Bluesky: @simonmar.bsky.social Github: simonmar Email: marlowsd@gmail.com LinkedIn: Simon Marlow
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Add a const here, delete a const there
Update, February 2019: Two years later the VC++ bug I reported here still exists, even in VS 2019 preview. However Chromium no longer builds with VC++ so I’m reverting the changes where I del…
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How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
Discover the tech stack used by CircleCI. Explore 34 tools across 4 categories.
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The future of latency profiling in Go
The roadmap for latency profiling in Go
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The HDFS Juggernaut
There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. However, in terms of data volume it turns out that HDFS is the real juggernaut. To give you a better idea here's a quick
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Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
Today we’re launching Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock. This service is provided at no additional charge and is…
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Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?
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Streaming Combinators and Extracting Flat Parallelism
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?
A web browser is a piece of software that loads remote files and displays them locally, allowing for user interaction. Quantum is the code name for an project we’ve undertaken ...
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The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
Beyond its status as a world leader in hackathon organization, BeMyApp has been supporting its customers' digital transformation for 10 years. We are committed to accelerating the development of their innovations by animating internal and external communities around the world, through in-person, virtual, or hybrid…
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Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?
Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per …
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Trust Issues: Exploiting TrustZone TEEs
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroMobile devices are becoming an increasingly privacy-sensitiv...