JEP Draft: Adapt Object Monitors for Virtual Threads
Summary Change the HotSpot VM implementation of object monitors to allow a virtual thread unmount from its carrier thread when inside a synchronized block or method, when blocking to gain ownership of a monitor, or when waiting in Object.wait. Goals Eliminate the so-called pinning issues with object monitors that can currently harm scalability and performance […]
Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
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Vooma (YC W23) Is Hiring a Growth Lead
TLDR: early business hire, unlimited growth potential, opportunity to join a strong founding teams (ex Stanford) with extremely strong signal of PMF About Vooma Vooma is a high growth freight-tech startup building the AI agent for logistics. Our mission is to improve the efficiency and resiliency of US supply chains. Vooma is backed by top […]
About the IMGUI Paradigm
THIS IS WIP/DRAFT / Discuss this article This is an attempt at explaining what the IMGUI paradigm stands for, and what it could be. Please note the References section where other articles have been written about this. Proponent of the IMGUI paradigm have noticed that it was widely misunderstood, over and over. As of Feb […]
Making PyPy’s GC and JIT produce a sound [video]
Aerc: A Well-Crafted TUI for Email
Aerc is a TUI email client. It had its first release ~4 years ago. This makes it a “baby” compared to most of its “competitors” (Pine was released in 1992, Mutt in 1995). I heard about this program shortly after its first release but ignored it at the time, because I was still reasonably happy […]
Launch HN: Arva AI (YC S24) – AI agents for instant global KYB onboarding
Hi HN! We’re Rhim and Oli, and we’re building Arva AI (https://arva-ai.com). Arva uses an AI agent to automate the manual verification that every banking/fintech does when they get a new business customer. This is called “Know Your Business” compliance (KYB for short) and it’s a royal pain. There’s a demo video here: https://www.arva-ai.com/loom , […]
Ordinals aren’t much worse than Quaternions
There are generalizations of our concept of number that are not considered bothersome because they are so darn useful. It has been a revelation to me to see that the Ordinals (up to $epsilon_0$), a supposedly “infinite” thing, are completely representable and their arithmetic is perfectly computable by any measure. Step by step we can […]
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying on shared drives to a massive network storage system that delivers over 140 trillion daily operations. In this post, […]
Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making
Tech Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much hundreds of software engineers report making in units like Azure and AI Ashley Stewart 2024-08-22T09:00:01Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird […]