421. Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil (devever.net)
103 points | 2019 | author hlandau showed up | their comment | thread
“This is the case with *nix but doesn't need to be. As far as I'm aware, it's quite common in microkernel-based OSes to implement even ELF loading, dynamic linking, etc.…”
422. Stock Option Pricing Inference (thomasvilhena.com)
103 points | 2019 | author tcgv showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback! I tried to imitate a "least squares regression" actually. I confess I wasn't sure if this was the most appropriate approach. I will run the…”
423. Canvas fingerprinting on the web (antoinevastel.com)
102 points | 2019 | author avastel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I run some fingerprinting tests sometimes for research purposes. Nevertheless I don't see which of the tests would ask for any audio or photos permissions. Which browser…”
424. The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
102 points | 2019 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I just want to drop in to reiterate how awesome register renaming is. It's a bit weird to try and understand, but it is crucial to how these out-of-order processors run,…”
425. Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction (randomascii.wordpress.com)
102 points | 2019 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't remember exactly when I did my investigation but I left the Xbox team in early 2009, so it would have been some time before that. The 2011 date from Wikipedia is…”
426. Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language (akkartik.name)
102 points | 2019 | author akkartik showed up | their comment | thread
“You didn't really ask a question, but I thought I'd mention a few things that may be related. 1. Mu isn't intended to be portable. There are no other backends, not even…”
427. Tarot for Hackers (christine.website)
102 points | 2019 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“Give me a tool that works better to understand Kubernetes than a tarot deck and I'll use it happily.”
428. Why I think Haskell is the best general purpose language as of June 22 2019 (philipzucker.com)
101 points | 2019 | author philzook showed up | their comment | thread
“This is deeply amusing that among all the posts I write, the rushed half cogent Haskell rant rehashed for the billionth time gets the most attention. I guess that makes…”
429. Building a language server for Muon (nickmqb.github.io)
101 points | 2019 | author nickmqb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote both the language server and Muon compiler [1] from scratch. The language server reuses the compiler code, for parsing and type checking. I'm not sure which…”
430. Staying Focused on Projects (brendonbody.com)
100 points | 2019 | author bbody showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your in-depth comment. I will have to agree that Step 6 is sometimes the first step for me too, the passion of a new idea can be overwhelming. However I do…”