Articles by tosh
17

Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now (macrumors.com)

1

QuestDB 9.4.0 (github.com/questdb)

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Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers (theguardian.com)

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Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64() (developer.mozilla.org)

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Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs (2025) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)

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Discussion of SIMD, SOA, AOSOA (2019) [video] (youtube.com)

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John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)

2

Software After Software (twitter.com/thorstenball)

3

Standard relu should have been defined as passing the value at zero (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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Counting Large Numbers of Events in Small Registers (1978) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

3

Bit Twiddling Hacks (stanford.edu)

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Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975) (microsoft.com)

2

The Free Lunch Is Over (2005) [pdf] (utexas.edu)

1

Rectangles All the Way Down (Dyalog '18) [video] (youtube.com)

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What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)

1

Maybe Programmers are Just Bad [video] (youtube.com)

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Co-Dfns versus BQN's Implementation (mlochbaum.github.io)

2

Foldable iPhone Reportedly Facing Mass Production Issues (macrumors.com)

2

Functional Programming in Lean (leanprover.github.io)

2

50 Years of Proof Assistants (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

1

A Wetland Without Water (theguardian.com)

1

De gustibus non est disputandum (wikipedia.org)

3

Classical Array Algebra (tali.link)

1

KlongPy: PyTorch Back End and Autograd (klongpy.org)

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Bird–Meertens Formalism (wikipedia.org)

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Pipe-Lining Time Series Calculations for Cache Efficiency (2014) (timestored.com)

2

WebAssembly 128-bit packed SIMD Extension (github.com/webassembly)

1

Geo Carncross: How to program computers (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

2

Apple: Human Interface Guidelines (github.com/gingerbeardman)

3

Java Card (wikipedia.org)

1

LPeg – Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua (inf.puc-rio.br)

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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007) (swtch.com)

2

Haskell: Introduction (haskell.org)

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Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training (twitter.com/elonmusk)

3

Overheated chemical tank in southern California 'will fail', EPA chief says (theguardian.com)

2

Golomb Coding (wikipedia.org)

2

Cheney on the MTA (1994) (plover.com)

1

Sieve of Eratosthenes (dyalog.com)

1

Beating C with Dyalog APL: wc (ummaycoc.github.io)

1

Intel: Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 [pdf] (alexrp.com)

1

Sparrow (sparrowhub.io)

2

Gustafson's Law (wikipedia.org)

2

Cost Model: Work, Span and Parallelism [pdf] (wustl.edu)

2

Are Determinacy-Race Bugs Lurking in Your Multicore Application? (2009) (archive.org)

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Mastering Dyalog APL (dyalog.com)

15

What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)

3

K Fragments (beyondloom.com)

1

Data Orientation (wikipedia.org)

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Ruby Arrays on Steroids (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

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User Story (beyondloom.com)

2

Tick Architecture (kx.com)

3

The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts (daringfireball.net)

4

China: Mine death toll rises to 90 after gas blast (theguardian.com)

18

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024) (thonking.ai)

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Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) (horace.io)

3

Bun in Rust is better than the original (twitter.com/jarredsumner)

1

COMP 115: Databases (geophile.com)

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Human factors comparison of a procedural and nonprocedural query language (1981) (acm.org)

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Supply chain attacks and OSS sustainability go hand in hand (twitter.com/mitchellh)

2

What the $#@! is Parallelism, Anyhow? (2009) (archive.org)

2

Jd (jsoftware.com)

3

NYSE Compression Case Study (kx.com)

3

Loop Fusion in Array Languages (mlochbaum.github.io)

2

The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)

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Thinking in an array language (2022) (github.com/razetime)

2

AVX-512 and Validating Usage on AMD EPYC (amd.com)

12

TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework (github.com/dataintellecttech)

1

How do AI chips work? [video] (youtube.com)

1

Pentagon releases second batch of UFO videos and first-hand testimony (theguardian.com)

2

WebGPU back end in llama.cpp/ggml (twitter.com/ggerganov)

2

MathML 4.0 (w3.org)

3

Ibis (ibis-project.org)

2

My own vxsort re-implemented with "modern" C++ (github.com/damageboy)

2

Apple Sports expands to more than 90 new countries and regions (apple.com)

1

Redframes (github.com/maxhumber)

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LZ77 decode at 9,903 MB/s: how we broke the sequential bottleneck on CPU (twitter.com/yasha1971)

1

Goes to Eleven (2020) (houmus.org)

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Microsoft STL (github.com/microsoft)

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OpenAI's Codex Can Now Use Your Mac Even When It's Locked (macrumors.com)

2

MathML (developer.mozilla.org)

2

Fixing LLM Writing with Distribution Fine Tuning (rosmine.ai)

1

AVX 512 will be the future (2022) (realworldtech.com)

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Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf] (nabstreamingsummit.com)

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Amp Labs (ampcode.com)

2

Record 274 climbers summit Everest from Nepalese side in single day (theguardian.com)

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Memory Location Matters for Performance (pythonspeed.com)

2

MLX Vulkan Back End (github.com/goniz)

2

Avoid unnecessary parser lookahead for operators (github.com/astral-sh)

1

AVX-512 Optimization for FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement on AMD Ryzen (2025) (phoronix.com)

2

QuestDB 9.4.0 (questdb.com)

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GCC Lands AVX-512 Fully-Masked Vectorization (2023) (phoronix.com)

2

Been running Claude Code on Bun Rust port for a few days, can't tell difference (twitter.com/jarredsumner)

1

AVX-512 and Validating Usage on AMD EPYC (amd.com)

7

DiffsHub (diffshub.com)

2

PR Diff Speed Matters (twitter.com/mitchellh)

1

ARM SVE2 (arm.com)

4

Fork your dependencies (twitter.com/mitchellh)

1

FMA Instruction Set (wikipedia.org)

2

Discord Voice and Video Calls Now End-to-End Encrypted by Default (macrumors.com)

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Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)