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Higher German exports to Russia's neighbours fuel sanctions evasion fears (reuters.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | reuters.com | newest

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Miéville's Fifty Fantasy and Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read (fantasticmetropolis.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | fantasticmetropolis.com | frontpage

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‘It’s the Wild West’: Vienna’s spying problem spins out of control (ft.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | ft.com | frontpage

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I Have Written a JVM in Rust (andreabergia.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | andreabergia.com | frontpage

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Elon Musk announces a new AI company (cnn.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cnn.com | newest

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Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star and Communist Party Outcast, Dies at 94 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Mercedes Design Boss Says a Three-Box Sedan with an EV Battery Pack “Looks Shit” (carscoops.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | carscoops.com | frontpage

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What if NYC had its own public bank? (gothamist.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | gothamist.com | newest

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Look past the swamp, dumps and American Dream mall. This is the Meadowlands (nj.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nj.com | newest

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Reviewing MultiPaxos under partial network partition from the OmniPaxos paper (zhiying12.github.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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Wealthy Chinese seeking to leave create school stock surge (fortune.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | fortune.com | frontpage

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Pakistan’s Existential Economic Crisis (usip.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | usip.org | newest

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/r/programming is back (reddit.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | reddit.com | frontpage

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There are TCP connections for Amazon EFS that have been active for years (2021) (twitter.com/colmmacc)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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A Roller Coaster for Roller Coaster Nerds (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Bruno Bonacci on Viewstamped Replication PWL London (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Canada’s closer: How Trudeau’s pitchman is outplaying America (politico.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | politico.com | newest

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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store (acm.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | acm.org | best

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Joins 13 Ways (justinjaffray.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | justinjaffray.com | newest

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Forget Bob Woodward. These Are the Political Books You Want to Read (politico.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | politico.com | newest

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A virtual machine inside Figma: 3kb program memory, 1kb RAM, and 18 instructions (twitter.com/willyvvu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Playbit is an endeavor to build a new operating system for software creatives (twitter.com/rsms)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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Optimizing a ring buffer for throughput (2021) (rigtorp.se)

2 years ago | eatonphil | rigtorp.se | newest

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Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache (2020) (johnnysswlab.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | johnnysswlab.com | best

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A firsthand account of how Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve works (ggwash.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | ggwash.org | newest

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So you want to write a GUI framework (2021) (cmyr.net)

2 years ago | eatonphil | cmyr.net | best

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Graphics for JVM (2020) (tonsky.me)

2 years ago | eatonphil | tonsky.me | frontpage

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Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb from Your Laptop into the Cloud (motherduck.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | motherduck.com | newest

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Growth in a Time of Debt (2010) [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | harvard.edu | newest

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Robert Mondavi Changed Wine. His Grandson Aims to Change Farming (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (sonyclassics.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | sonyclassics.com | newest

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“Formula for an infrastructure startup success” (twitter.com/nikitabase)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The six problems aviation must fix to hit net zero (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | theguardian.com | newest

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Minimal Linux VM Cross Compiled with Clang and Zig (richiejp.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | richiejp.com | newest

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Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) (cornell.edu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | cornell.edu | newest

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There Are Better Ways to Build a Toilet (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks [pdf] (vldb.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | vldb.org | newest

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Could something like kei cars work in America? (reddit.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | reddit.com | newest

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Amapiano took over the world: “You have to get up and move – it’s contagious” (nme.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nme.com | newest

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Understanding the Failure of the U.S. Embargo on Cuba (wola.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | wola.org | newest

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The case for South Korean membership in the G7 (nationalinterest.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nationalinterest.org | best

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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis (cfr.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | cfr.org | best

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Helping sommeliers inventory wines faster with Whisper, DuckDB, and Metaphone (vikramoberoi.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | vikramoberoi.com | newest

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The simple joys of scaling up (motherduck.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | motherduck.com | best

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An Introduction to Bε -trees and Write-Optimization [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | mit.edu | frontpage

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Building and Deploying MySQL Raft at Meta (fb.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | fb.com | newest

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Understanding Modern Storage APIs: A systematic study of libaio, SPDK, io_uring [pdf] (atlarge-research.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | atlarge-research.com | best

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What use cases would be affected if PostgreSQL switched to (very) large files? (twitter.com/mengtangmu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? (jack-vanlightly.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | best

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Show HN: Discord group for NYC area folks in systems software

2 years ago | eatonphil | ycombinator.com | newest

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Show HN: Discord group for NYC area folks in systems software (discord.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | discord.com | newest

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How OmniPaxos handles partial connectivity – and why other protocols can’t (omnipaxos.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | omnipaxos.com | newest

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JIT Compilers 102 (redvice.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | redvice.org | newest

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TLA+ specification for the Raft consensus algorithm (github.com/ongardie)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Twitter Verification for Organizations, a new kind of network on Twitter (business.twitter.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The World Today, Foretold by Nixon (2011) (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp (twitter.com/en)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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TPC-H benchmark of Hyper, DuckDB and DataFusion on Parquet files (architecture-performance.fr)

2 years ago | eatonphil | architecture-performance.fr | newest

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Testing Sync at Dropbox (2020) (dropbox.tech)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dropbox.tech | newest

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Cross shard transactions at 10M requests per second (2018) (dropbox.tech)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dropbox.tech | newest

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Madsim: Magical Deterministic Simulator for distributed systems in Rust (github.com/madsim-rs)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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High-Level Synthesis Made Easy (hlsbook.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | hlsbook.com | newest

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Building a Database in the 2020s (0xffff.me)

2 years ago | eatonphil | 0xffff.me | newest

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Libeatmydata – because fsync() should be a no-op (github.com/stewartsmith)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Making assertions about compiler decisions in Go programs via inline comments (github.com/jordanlewis)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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When Graham Greene Met Ernest Hemingway on the Set of 'Our Man in Havana' (crimereads.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | crimereads.com | newest

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Ensuring data reaches disk (2011) (lwn.net)

2 years ago | eatonphil | lwn.net | newest

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Can the U.S. See the Truth About China? (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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[flagged] The Problem with AI Is the Problem with Capitalism (jacobin.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jacobin.com | best

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The Evolution of LeanStore (gi.de)

2 years ago | eatonphil | gi.de | newest

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Laptop vs. Desktop for RonDB Development (mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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Who killed US manufacturing? (2021) (investmentmonitor.ai)

2 years ago | eatonphil | investmentmonitor.ai | newest

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Hyundai was poised to become Tesla’s top contender. Then the U.S. blindsided it (latimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | latimes.com | frontpage

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Move over Morricone The record labels rescuing lost Italian B-movie scores (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | theguardian.com | newest

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The Limitations of the Ethernet CRC and TCP/IP Checksums for Error Detection (noahdavids.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | noahdavids.org | newest

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Swarm Testing [pdf] (utah.edu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | utah.edu | newest

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Some of the internal programming and debugging tools we use to make video games (youtube.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | frontpage

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Writing high-performance clients for TigerBeetle (tigerbeetle.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | tigerbeetle.com | newest

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What Uruguay Can Teach Us (americasquarterly.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | americasquarterly.org | newest

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What Is Consensus (twitter.com/alexmillerdb)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale (2021) [pdf] (gts3.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | gts3.org | frontpage

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Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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The Ins and Outs of NYC Commuting (2019) [pdf] (nyc.gov)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nyc.gov | newest

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Benefits of dependencies in software projects as a function of effort (2017) (thegreenplace.net)

2 years ago | eatonphil | thegreenplace.net | newest

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An Effective Product Manager (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Lenovo puts the legendary ThinkPad brand on a phone: Meet the ThinkPhone (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | arstechnica.com | newest

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OkayWAL: A write-ahead log for Rust (bonsaidb.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | bonsaidb.io | newest

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Basic Parsing Difficulties in EndBASIC (jmmv.dev)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jmmv.dev | newest

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New York Announces Launch of $30M Pre-Seed and Seed Matching Fund (ny.gov)

2 years ago | eatonphil | ny.gov | newest

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‘I was a slave’: Up to 100k held captive by Chinese cybercriminals in Cambodia (latimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | latimes.com | newest

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I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | best

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Programming Languages Resources (bernsteinbear.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | bernsteinbear.com | newest

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Favorite Compiler and Interpreter Resources (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | frontpage

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The Birth of Inter (2019) (figma.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | figma.com | newest

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WAL Mode in LiteFS (fly.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | fly.io | best

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Make a Lisp – Review (stereobooster.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | stereobooster.com | newest

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HTTP/3 prioritization demystified (perfplanet.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | perfplanet.com | best

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Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone (aljazeera.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | aljazeera.com | best

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Illegal migration puts Slovakia into Schengen isolation (dw.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dw.com | newest

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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest