How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes(compilade.net)

92 points by JoshTriplett 3 months ago | 45 comments

How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes(compilade.net)

79 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 57 comments

My website is one binary (2022)(j3s.sh)

36 points by smartmic 1 year ago | 30 comments

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing(hereticpleb.vercel.app)

262 points by BurnerBurner 26 days ago | 222 comments

A personal blog post mocking performative LinkedIn culture, describing the author's projects including building a YOLO-based detector for LinkedIn posts.

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On(vlad.website)

47 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Indefinite Backpack Travel(jeremymaluf.com)

408 points by renjieliu 1 year ago | 353 comments

Jeremy Maluf's yearly-updated post on living out of a single laptop backpack since 2015, with a flat-lay of everything he owns and gear recommendations.

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.

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.