1. | | Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai) |
| 574 points by davidgu 73 days ago | 321 comments |
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2. | | War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged (clientserver.dev) |
| 462 points by jakevoytko 5 months ago | 187 comments |
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3. | | IO Devices and Latency (planetscale.com) |
| 443 points by milar 6 months ago | 153 comments |
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4. | | “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” (jmspae.se) |
| 586 points by TeMPOraL 6 months ago | 353 comments |
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5. | | Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb (gilesthomas.com) |
| 351 points by gpjt 4 months ago | 67 comments |
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6. | | Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions (depot.dev) |
| 106 points by jacobwg 5 months ago | 72 comments |
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7. | | From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video] (ccc.de) |
| 384 points by cookiengineer 8 months ago | 154 comments |
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8. | | Storing Times for Human Events (simonwillison.net) |
| 168 points by kiyanwang 9 months ago | 80 comments |
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9. | | The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury (nature.com) |
| 366 points by gmays 10 months ago | 249 comments |
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10. | | The Canary (washingtonpost.com) |
| 218 points by ebcode on Sept 8, 2024 | 54 comments |
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11. | | Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow? (val.town) |
| 95 points by maxmcd on July 26, 2024 | 56 comments |
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12. | | NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture (nsa.gov) |
| 946 points by gaws on Aug 26, 2024 | 227 comments |
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13. | | Calling All Hackers (phrack.org) |
| 674 points by picture on Aug 21, 2024 | 253 comments |
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14. | | The Objects of Our Life (1983) (stevejobsarchive.com) |
| 284 points by Brajeshwar on July 18, 2024 | 146 comments |
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15. | | How French Drains Work (practical.engineering) |
| 755 points by chmaynard on Aug 6, 2024 | 209 comments |
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16. | | JavaScript garbage collection and closures (jakearchibald.com) |
| 138 points by jaffathecake on July 30, 2024 | 69 comments |
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17. | | Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video] (youtube.com) |
| 414 points by zdw on July 10, 2024 | 110 comments |
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18. | | Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study (infoq.com) |
| 167 points by mighty_plant on July 14, 2024 | 189 comments |
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19. | | Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes (conduition.io) |
| 2305 points by miki123211 on July 8, 2024 | 714 comments |
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20. | | Why is Chile so long? (tomaspueyo.com) |
| 1441 points by trevin on July 2, 2024 | 445 comments |
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21. | | Working Title (Insurance) (bitsaboutmoney.com) |
| 167 points by Keegs on July 1, 2024 | 92 comments |
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22. | | What goes around comes around and around [pdf] (cmu.edu) |
| 130 points by craigkerstiens on July 1, 2024 | 29 comments |
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23. | | A hacker's guide to Language Models (github.com/fastai) |
| 152 points by tosh on April 21, 2024 | 6 comments |
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24. | | Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer (bawolf.substack.com) |
| 675 points by bryantwolf on April 17, 2024 | 174 comments |
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25. | | Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 178 points by bookofjoe on June 30, 2024 | 193 comments |
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26. | | Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video] (youtube.com) |
| 223 points by zdw on June 23, 2024 | 40 comments |
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27. | | The Costco of Housing is Costco? The retailer's plan to use CA housing laws (urbanproxima.com) |
| 70 points by vwoolf on June 14, 2024 | 62 comments |
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28. | | Seeing Like a Data Structure (belfercenter.org) |
| 154 points by barathr on June 1, 2024 | 33 comments |
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29. | | How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (2023) [pdf] (kk.org) |
| 94 points by Tomte on June 2, 2024 | 4 comments |
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30. | | How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? (physics.stackexchange.com) |
| 1027 points by williamsmj on June 3, 2024 | 195 comments |
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