Calendar Queues: A Fast O(1) Priority Queue Implementation (1988)(dl.acm.org)

46 points by tithe 2 years ago | 22 comments

Xerox PARC's NoteCards in a Nutshell (1987) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

72 points by mepian 3 years ago | 26 comments

A Performance Comparison of Modern Garbage Collectors (2021) [pdf](rodrigo-bruno.github.io)

43 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 6 comments

Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results(arxiv.org)

104 points by Luc 2 years ago | 69 comments

What if mass storage were free? – George Copeland (1980) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

37 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018)(journals.sagepub.com)

38 points by sebg 3 years ago | 25 comments

What is a Vector Database? (2021)(pinecone.io)

359 points by gk1 3 years ago | 190 comments

Pinecone's explainer article on what vector databases are and how they store and search embeddings for AI applications.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Architecture Patterns with Python(cosmicpython.com)

405 points by asicsp 1 year ago | 96 comments

Preface of the free online book Architecture Patterns with Python (Cosmic Python), covering DDD, event-driven architecture and related patterns in Python.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.