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I formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)

a year ago | eatonphil | buttondown.email | newest

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Milliseconds Make Millions [pdf] (deloitte.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | deloitte.com | newest

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The curious case of the aggregation query (modern-sql.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | modern-sql.com | best

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Should Venezuela invade its oil-rich neighbor? Maduro puts it to a vote Sunday (miamiherald.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | miamiherald.com | newest

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Populist Leaders and the Economy (aeaweb.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | aeaweb.org | newest

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Log-Structured Merge Tree (medium.com/tomfran)

a year ago | eatonphil | medium.com | newest

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It's About Time! (brooker.co.za)

a year ago | eatonphil | brooker.co.za | newest

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Simplifying Expressions Bottom-Up (buttondown.email/jaffray)

a year ago | eatonphil | buttondown.email | newest

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Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-Based Data Stores [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Exploring a Postgres Query Plan (eatonphil.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Before PowerPoint, DuPont Had a Chart Room. Made in 1919 (twitter.com/emollick)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The Global Battle over Microchips (youtube.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Linearizability versus Serializability (2014) (bailis.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | bailis.org | newest

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Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can't we agree how to pronounce common words? (2015) (theweek.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theweek.com | newest

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NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go (uber.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | uber.com | newest

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Panda Diplomacy Might Not Be Dead Just Yet (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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CRDTs for concurrent file systems [pdf] (lip6.fr)

a year ago | eatonphil | lip6.fr | newest

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A JIT compiler for CPython [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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"Chip War," an Analysis of the Geopolitics of Critical Technology (cfr.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | cfr.org | newest

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Neon – Serverless PostgreSQL – ASDS Chapter 3 (jack-vanlightly.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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RFCGPT: the virtual assistant that has read the entire RFC series (twitter.com/grittygrease)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Improving the dead code elimination algorithm in JS_of_OCaml (micahcantor.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | micahcantor.com | frontpage

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Practical Change Data Streaming Use Cases with Apache Kafka and Debezium (infoq.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | infoq.com | newest

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When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is the Job (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications [pdf] (sigops.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | sigops.org | newest

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method (eatonphil.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Data Page Layouts for Relational Databases on Deep Memory Hierarchies (2002) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

a year ago | eatonphil | cmu.edu | newest

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US Military presence around the world (2021) (aljazeera.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | aljazeera.com | frontpage

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pg_experiments, Part 2: Adding a new data type (aadhav.me)

a year ago | eatonphil | aadhav.me | newest

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GreptimeDB's Newest Storage Engine (greptime.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | greptime.com | newest

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pg_experiments, Part 1: Modifying operator logic (aadhav.me)

a year ago | eatonphil | aadhav.me | newest

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Databases Are Not Compilers (buttondown.email/jaffray)

a year ago | eatonphil | buttondown.email | newest

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Resolving a year-long ClickHouse lock contention (tinybird.co)

a year ago | eatonphil | tinybird.co | newest

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'He has been forgotten': why humorist Art Buchwald should be remembered (theguardian.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theguardian.com | frontpage

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io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk (eatonphil.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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How to search point-of-interest (POI) markers on a map efficiently (medium.com/booking-com-development)

a year ago | eatonphil | medium.com | newest

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What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, and How to Exploit It [pdf] (archive.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | archive.org | newest

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Rite Aid, Facing Slumping Sales and Opioid Suits, Files for Bankruptcy (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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A Swedish company is making flat-pack cars – but it's not the one you think (cnn.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cnn.com | newest

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MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure (theregister.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theregister.com | best

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Testing Distributed Systems for Linearizability (2017) (anishathalye.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | anishathalye.com | newest

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CEO of Regent, startup developing electric seagliders: “$60M Series A” (twitter.com/billythalheimer)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Failures: Analysis of Production Failures (2014) [pdf] (usenix.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | usenix.org | newest

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Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace (eatonphil.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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A shallow survey of OLAP and HTAP query engines (scattered-thoughts.net)

a year ago | eatonphil | scattered-thoughts.net | newest

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ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++ (clickhouse.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | clickhouse.com | best

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How to colorize Game Boy games – First steps (toruzz.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | toruzz.com | newest

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Transactions: Write skew and why we need serialization? (distributed-computing-musings.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | distributed-computing-musings.com | newest

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A Hidden Reason Cities Fall Apart (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf] (tum.de)

a year ago | eatonphil | tum.de | best

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Durability: Linux File APIs (2020) (evanjones.ca)

a year ago | eatonphil | evanjones.ca | newest

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Heartland Metropolitans Are Changing the Map of Talent in the U.S. [pdf] (heartlandforward.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | heartlandforward.org | newest

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The True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse (wired.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | wired.com | frontpage

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Comparing Semgrep and CodeQL (doyensec.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | doyensec.com | newest

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Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking (2020) (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Show HN: Building intuition about primitive database operations (github.com/eatonphil)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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People should not use EBS when building cloud native infrastructure services (twitter.com/nikitabase)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Common Pitfalls in Database Performance Testing (2018) [pdf] (mytherin.github.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.io | frontpage

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ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf] (bailis.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | bailis.org | newest

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Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko is joining the Biden administration (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | washingtonpost.com | newest

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How FoundationDB works and why it works (the-pans.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | the-pans.com | newest

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Tracking Application-Level Consistency with LiteFS (fly.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | fly.io | frontpage

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White House Requests Public Comment on Memory Safe Programming Languages (whitehouse.gov)

a year ago | eatonphil | whitehouse.gov | newest

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Chaos Tools and Techniques for Testing TiDB (2018) (thenewstack.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | thenewstack.io | newest

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Hard and Soft Statistics (buttondown.email/jaffray)

a year ago | eatonphil | buttondown.email | newest

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Getting into formal specification, and getting my team into it too (brooker.co.za)

a year ago | eatonphil | brooker.co.za | newest

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Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011) [pdf] (w6113.github.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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The Ubiquitous B-Tree (1979) [pdf] (carlosproal.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | carlosproal.com | newest

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BRICS leaders invite 6 nations including Saudi Arabia to join bloc (ft.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | ft.com | newest

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Co-Designing Raft and Thread-per-Core Execution Model for the Kafka-API (infoq.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | infoq.com | newest

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Vietnamese EV maker worth more than Ford or GM after US listing (ft.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | ft.com | frontpage

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Thinking about Functional Programming (eatonphil.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Years before BRICS, Lula already proposed counterweight to world’s great powers (twitter.com/caioquero)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the country (cnn.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cnn.com | best

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China’s Once-Top Builder Turns into Penny Stock Amid Debt Woes (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | bloomberg.com | newest

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US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering (reuters.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | reuters.com | best

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Wrap Your NIF with Zig (rbino.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | rbino.com | newest

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What Does the G7 Do? (cfr.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | cfr.org | newest

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Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China (dallasfed.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | dallasfed.org | best

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A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Modern In-Memory Indices [pdf] (nus.edu.sg)

a year ago | eatonphil | nus.edu.sg | newest

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The Taming of the B-Trees (scylladb.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | scylladb.com | newest

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CBOR is Greener than JSON [pdf] (githubusercontent.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | githubusercontent.com | newest

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Energy efficiency in modern programming languages [pdf] (diva-portal.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | diva-portal.org | newest

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Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates [pdf] (nber.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | nber.org | newest

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Human flight and brain drain in Europe (theglobaleconomy.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theglobaleconomy.com | newest

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Efficient data transfer through zero copy (ibm.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | ibm.com | frontpage

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A Shrinking Footprint in Africa for France, the Former Colonizer That Stayed (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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The Social History of Beds (2019) (theconversation.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theconversation.com | newest

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The Last Internet Cafes (restofworld.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | restofworld.org | newest

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Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph (2007) (lowtechmagazine.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | lowtechmagazine.com | best

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Too much debt? China’s foreign investments weigh heavy on borrowers (csmonitor.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | csmonitor.com | newest

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Understanding Zlib (euccas.me)

a year ago | eatonphil | euccas.me | newest

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Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary (2015) (cloudflare.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cloudflare.com | newest

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Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says (bnnbloomberg.ca)

a year ago | eatonphil | bnnbloomberg.ca | best

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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal (restofworld.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | restofworld.org | frontpage

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How Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language (theconversation.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | theconversation.com | newest

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FAA Releases Its ‘Innovate28’ Plan for AAM Integration by 2028 (flyingmag.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | flyingmag.com | frontpage

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Pointers in Far Memory (acm.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | acm.org | newest

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America fell out of love with ice cream (cnn.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cnn.com | newest