Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground(mastodon.social)

309 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 43 comments

Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today(mastodon.social)

44 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 7 comments

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Discussing the Neptunian desert, savanna, and ridge(mathstodon.xyz)

26 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 4 comments

Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder(mathstodon.xyz)

359 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 79 comments

Mastodon post by Terence Tao announcing part two of Grant Sanderson's video interview with him on the cosmic distance ladder, plus a blog post with commentary.

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres(topicpartition.io)

500 points by enether 1 year ago | 359 comments

Blog post benchmarking Postgres as a pub-sub and queue system compared to Kafka, arguing for simpler, boring technology choices.

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4(jepsen.io)

581 points by aphyr 1 year ago | 138 comments

Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury showing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters violate Snapshot Isolation, exhibiting Long Fork anomalies across versions 13.15 to 17.4.

Deterministic Concurrency [video](youtube.com)

76 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 5 comments

YouTube video from ACM SIGPLAN of an ICFP 2026 talk titled "Deterministic Concurrency" filmed in Indianapolis.

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O(pganalyze.com)

531 points by lfittl 1 year ago | 140 comments

A pganalyze blog post by Lukas Fittl explaining the new asynchronous I/O subsystem for disk reads in the Postgres 18 beta and its performance implications.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)(coveillance.org)

388 points by eustoria 4 months ago | 265 comments

A Coveillance guide describing a walking tour of Seattle surveillance sites, including cameras, Amazon Go, license plate readers, a fusion center, and an AT&T NSA peering site.

Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second(cerebras.ai)

334 points by mihau 1 year ago | 140 comments

Cerebras press release announcing Qwen3-235B on its Inference Cloud with full 131K context support, billed as the world's fastest frontier AI model.