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Claude and I have a proper first date
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Railway raises $100M Series B
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Writing a TSDB from Scratch in Go
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Trust AI, but Verify
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In Memory of Frank Gehry
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Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml
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Notes on Afghanistan
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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Book Club
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Minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things
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Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join Correspondence
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India overtakes Japan as 4th-largest economy, report says
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Amtrak: A Year of Records
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Remembering the Night Boats
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Inlining
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How We Optimize RocksDB in TiKV – Write Batch Optimization
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62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
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How Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society
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Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries
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Nippon Steel's Acquisition of US Steel: A $15B Deal
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How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees
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Size of Life
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Does Pittsburgh Have More Bridges Than Any Other City?
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Columns limit in PostgreSQL – how many columns fit into a table
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Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO
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President Donald Trump Appears to Approve Kei Cars for the USA
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Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
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Cool Facilities – The David Taylor Model Basin
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Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
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Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)
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Debugging processes across container boundaries on Kubernetes
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Malaysia: Truly Asia
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A resilient Chord implementation in Go
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Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
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Sharon Osberg, the woman who teaches Warren Buffett and Bill Gates bridge
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Ordering Types in SQL
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JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs
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Network Storage and Scaling Characteristics of a Distributed Filesystem
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They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition
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The journey to virtual generated columns
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The Invisible Curriculum of Research
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One Year of PostgreSQL Hacking Workshops
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China Pushes Trump to Drop Curbs as It Dangles Investment Pledge
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F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
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Autonomous testing of etcd's robustness
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Seven Years of Firecracker
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Infinite Relations
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Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
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Optimizing our way through Metroid
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Octopolis and Octlantis
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Without the futex, it's futile
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From East India Company to Big Tech: Why corporations keep seeking colonies
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Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
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Consensus Algorithms at Scale (2020)
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Why is LED light so bad?
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History of improvements in VACUUM in PostgreSQL (2023)
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PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22, and 18 Beta 3 Released
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LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications [pdf]
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Students from Southeast Asia in demand at universities
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Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data
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Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol (2023)
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Scaling Correctness: Marc Brooker on a Decade of Formal Methods at AWS
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Postgres Replication Slots: Confirmed Flush LSN vs. Restart LSN
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