A faster way to calculate the day of the week(benjoffe.com)

225 points by gavide 2 months ago | 63 comments

Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem (2021)(matt-rickard.com)

49 points by ingve 3 years ago | 18 comments

The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)(ktema.org)

168 points by ahamez 2 years ago | 103 comments

Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024)(winwang.blog)

73 points by winwang 1 year ago | 9 comments

Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025(chrisebert.net)

111 points by hasanhaja 10 months ago | 51 comments

Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS(tonyfinn.com)

59 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 46 comments

Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)(eater.net)

379 points by jcartw 1 year ago | 62 comments

Ben Eater's project page documenting how to build a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from simple logic gates, with videos, parts lists, and schematics.

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?(lemire.me)

466 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 190 comments

Daniel Lemire blog post examining how AMD Ryzen processors became about 50% faster over two years.

Eight Bytes Are a Number(blog.sebastiansastre.co)

6 points by sebastianconcpt 25 days ago | 2 comments

Blog post by Sebastian Sastre arguing that reading numbers or types from bytes shouldn't require allocating a separate buffer, since eight bytes already are a number.

GridFTP: A Brief History of Fast File Transfer (2024)(globus.org)

3 points by QuantumNomad_ 6 days ago | 0 comments

Globus blog post recounting the history of GridFTP, a protocol for high-speed bulk file transfer used in scientific and grid computing.

Jiff: Datetime library for Rust(github.com)

408 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 186 comments

GitHub repository for Jiff, a date-time library for Rust by BurntSushi designed to make correct datetime handling easy.

Notes by djb on using Fil-C(cr.yp.to)

340 points by transpute 11 months ago | 219 comments

Daniel J. Bernstein's notes on using the memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C, including install scripts, timings, and compatibility observations on Debian 13.