A study of sequence weighting at scale(blog.janestreet.com)

6 points by pranitha_m 1 month ago | 1 comments

Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine(nixiesearch.substack.com)

102 points by shutty 2 years ago | 65 comments

Oxidizing OCaml: Locality(blog.janestreet.com)

229 points by amatheus 3 years ago | 56 comments

Timeseries Indexing at Scale(artem.krylysov.com)

74 points by gsky 2 years ago | 10 comments

Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust(nikolaivazquez.com)

95 points by nvzqz 3 years ago | 10 comments

Database Performance at Scale – A free book(scylladb.com)

306 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 102 comments

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood(obviouslywrong.substack.com)

335 points by JnBrymn 1 year ago | 218 comments

A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)

83 points by KraftyOne 1 month ago | 26 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up(linear.app)

300 points by julian_digital 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.