Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)(adamdrake.com)

147 points by tosh 2 years ago | 99 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

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing(alephic.com)

377 points by noahbrier 1 year ago | 197 comments

Blog post by Noah Brier on Alephic describing how Claude Code, combined with Obsidian's plain Markdown files and filesystem access, became his agentic operating system.

Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark(lemire.me)

146 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 86 comments

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab(martinalderson.com)

658 points by martinald 4 months ago | 507 comments

Blog post by Martin Alderson arguing xAI's capacity deals with Anthropic and Google make it resemble a datacentre REIT more than a frontier AI lab.

How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022)(siboehm.com)

86 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 21 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)(rhodesmill.org)

344 points by vmbrasseur 2 years ago | 140 comments

Brandon Rhodes' 2009 blog post suggesting prefixing personal shell script names with a comma to avoid collisions with system commands.

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)(rhodesmill.org)

628 points by theblazehen 8 months ago | 227 comments

Brandon Rhodes' 2009 blog post suggesting prefixing personal shell script names with a comma to avoid collisions with system commands.

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)(blog.lizzie.io)

125 points by mkornaukhov 21 days ago | 30 comments

A 2016 blog post walking through a minimal Linux container implementation in C, covering namespaces, capabilities, mounts and other isolation mechanisms.

Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)(blog.hofstede.it)

564 points by zdw 7 months ago | 246 comments

A blog post sharing practical Unix shell tricks and keyboard shortcuts for bash and other shells to speed up everyday terminal work.

Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system(github.com)

1029 points by espressoRunner 3 years ago | 179 comments

GitHub repository for try, a tool that runs a shell command in an overlay sandbox so its filesystem effects can be inspected before committing them.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)(mazzo.li)

462 points by SEJeff 3 years ago | 87 comments

Blog post exploring how Linux pipes are implemented by iteratively optimizing a pipe-based test program from 3.5GiB/s to about 65GiB/s using perf profiling.