The Cost of Indirection in Rust(blog.sebastiansastre.co)

93 points by sebastianconcpt 7 months ago | 44 comments

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server(blog.diego.dev)

303 points by shantara 1 year ago | 68 comments

Thoughts on Bluesky(canolcer.com)

5 points by shafyy 1 year ago | 1 comments

Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web(benjdd.com)

49 points by bddicken 2 years ago | 10 comments

Staying opinionated as you grow(hugo.writizzy.com)

63 points by hlassiege 11 months ago | 36 comments

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.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)

569 points by tobr 6 months ago | 151 comments

Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.