NixOS for the Impatient(borretti.me)

139 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 68 comments

Why Lisp Syntax Works(borretti.me)

288 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 262 comments

The Design Space of Wikis(borretti.me)

24 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 7 comments

Scaling HNSWs(antirez.com)

198 points by cyndunlop 11 months ago | 42 comments

Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022)(borretti.me)

131 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 24 comments

Human Routers of Machine Words(borretti.me)

55 points by zx321 4 months ago | 26 comments

FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm(github.com)

339 points by rickcarlino 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub wiki page for fsrs4anki explaining the basics of FSRS, a spaced repetition scheduling algorithm by Jarrett Ye intended to replace Anki's SM2.

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.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it(github.com)

747 points by wrxd 8 months ago | 581 comments

A closed GitHub pull request to matplotlib by user crabby-rathbun proposing to replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for performance.

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)

363 points by edent 3 years ago | 461 comments

Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.

Stop syncing everything(sqlsync.dev)

607 points by neilk 1 year ago | 110 comments

Carl Sverre's blog post launching Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine for lazy, partial replication with strong consistency backed by object storage.