Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs(quantum5.ca)

203 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 62 comments

An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS(quantum5.ca)

11 points by rsecora 2 years ago | 0 comments

What I wish I knew when I got my ASN(quantum5.ca)

176 points by signa11 3 years ago | 14 comments

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)(quantum5.ca)

43 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 7 comments

A blog tutorial on setting up and using systemd-nspawn containers, covering creating rootfses for Debian, Fedora, and Alpine and booting them.

QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture(qsoe-dev.blogspot.com)

39 points by ymz5 4 months ago | 17 comments

Debcraft – Easiest way to modify and build Debian packages(optimizedbyotto.com)

79 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 25 comments

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01(seiya.me)

458 points by ingve 3 years ago | 112 comments

A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.

The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug(github.com)

391 points by signa11 1 year ago | 166 comments

GitHub repository with a deep dive into ACPI.sys DPC latency problems caused by firmware AML bugs on Asus ROG laptops, including decompilation and ETW traces.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.