Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar(infoq.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

Facebook ban on discussing Linux?(distrowatch.com)

746 points by rogerthis 1 year ago | 335 comments

DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.

The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once(motherjones.com)

50 points by jawns 3 years ago | 53 comments

Qualcomm to Bring RISC-V Based Wearable Platform to Wear OS by Google(qualcomm.com)

89 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 24 comments

A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial(mstdn.social)

512 points by zdw 1 year ago | 71 comments

A Mastodon post showing a QR code that resolves to different destinations depending on viewing angle or scanner, using lenticular and adversarial techniques.

The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl"(newyorker.com)

14 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 6 comments

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf](mathcs.holycross.edu)

332 points by o4c 11 months ago | 70 comments

A free PDF textbook by Andrew D. Hwang, 'Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics'.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf](fleuret.org)

420 points by dataminer 3 years ago | 29 comments

A PDF of François Fleuret's The Little Book of Deep Learning, a short introductory textbook on deep learning.

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf](cses.fi)

302 points by vinhnx 23 days ago | 79 comments

PDF of the Competitive Programmer's Handbook by Antti Laaksonen (July 2018 draft), a free book on algorithms for programming contests.

CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification(github.com)

420 points by gorenb 3 years ago | 251 comments

GitHub repository for Catala, a programming language for literate programming of law specifications, such as tax and benefits legislation.

Understanding Deep Learning(udlbook.github.io)

347 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 79 comments

Homepage for Simon J.D. Prince's book Understanding Deep Learning (MIT Press, 2023), offering a free draft PDF of chapters 1-21 under a CC license.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.