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Kangaroo: A flash cache optimized for tiny objects (2021)

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/26/core-infra/kangaroo/
15•PaulHoule•6h ago

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jauntywundrkind•2h ago
There's a repo with some of the tools used for graphing/simulation in the paper, https://github.com/saramcallister/Kangaroo?tab=readme-ov-fil...

And that references a fork of CacheLib. Looking at branches, this seems to be the Kangaroo work: https://github.com/saramcallister/CacheLib-1/commits/artifac...

The Future of Flatpak

https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/
55•dxs•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle
109•kepano•3h ago•20 comments

Claude 4

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
1441•meetpateltech•8h ago•769 comments

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years

https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
296•chriskw•9h ago•19 comments

32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone
18•mdp2021•1h ago•2 comments

The Copilot Delusion

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
102•isaiahwp•1h ago•66 comments

Airport for DuckDB

https://airport.query.farm/
32•jonbaer•3d ago•2 comments

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides
121•imurray•6h ago•40 comments

"Secret Mall Apartment," a Protest for Place

https://modernagejournal.com/secret-mall-apartment-a-protest-for-place/251023/
39•rufus_foreman•2h ago•13 comments

Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
760•phantomathkg•8h ago•487 comments

How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-cheat-at-settlers-of-catan-by-loading-the-dice-and-prove-it-with-p-values.html
80•jxmorris12•6h ago•61 comments

Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pydantic-json-memory/
74•itamarst•7h ago•27 comments

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/
247•todsacerdoti•13h ago•84 comments

A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/science/richard-garwin-hydrogen-bomb.html
20•LAsteNERD•3d ago•2 comments

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/
174•tekknolagi•11h ago•42 comments

Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/stargate-and-the-ai-industrial-revolution
13•mhb•2h ago•8 comments

Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (2009)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430463
26•NaOH•4h ago•4 comments

Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts

55•digitaltzar•9h ago•51 comments

I Built My Own Audio Player

https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/
168•nexo-v1•11h ago•87 comments

A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/without-time-there-is-no-flavour-a-south-korean-grand-master-on-the-art-of-the-perfect-soy-sauce
120•n1b0m•1d ago•82 comments

Planetfall

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/planetfall/
310•milliams•15h ago•85 comments

Sketchy Calendar

https://www.inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/sketchy-calendar/
7•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

Problems in AI alignment: A scale model

https://muldoon.cloud/2025/05/22/alignment.html
26•hamburga•5h ago•3 comments

When good pseudorandom numbers go bad

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-05-18_multivariate-normal-sampling-floating-point/
33•chewxy•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-js
139•marcobambini•11h ago•42 comments

The Annotated Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Kan)

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2024/annotated-kan/
22•jxmorris12•4h ago•1 comments

Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp/
85•freediver•11h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Hsdlib – A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD Acceleration

17•habedi0•3d ago•0 comments

Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve

https://akkartik.name/debugUIs.html
21•akkartik•6h ago•1 comments

Four years of sight reading practice

https://sandrock.co.za/carl/2025/05/four-years-of-sight-reading-pracice/
139•chthonicdaemon•3d ago•66 comments