JIT-ing a stack machine (with SLJIT)(bullno1.com)

28 points by bullno1 1 year ago | 5 comments

Test, don't just verify(alperenkeles.com)

180 points by alpaylan 10 months ago | 127 comments

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times(lalitm.com)

147 points by lalitmaganti 1 month ago | 29 comments

Docker Compose Isn't Enough(blog.tealok.tech)

105 points by hartspear 1 year ago | 129 comments

Vim Boss(neovim.io)

1189 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 112 comments

A Neovim news post from August 2023 paying tribute to Vim creator Bram Moolenaar and reflecting on his character and influence.

Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp(fratepietro.com)

20 points by antonellof 2 months ago | 22 comments

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.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker(righto.com)

413 points by NelsonMinar 6 months ago | 106 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the electromechanical analog Angle Computer used in the B-52 bomber's automated celestial navigation star tracker.

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane(prospect.org)

735 points by doom2 2 years ago | 446 comments

American Prospect article by Maureen Tkacik on how Boeing's management drove out experienced engineers and workers who knew how to build planes.

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine(construction-physics.com)

411 points by mhb 1 year ago | 198 comments

A Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter explaining why designing and manufacturing jet engines is so difficult.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.