Show HN: Bag of words – Build and share smart data apps using AI
Build and share smart data apps using AI Bag of words enables users to create comprehensive dashboards with a single prompt and refine them iteratively. It integrates seamlessly with various data sources, including databases, APIs, and business systems, allowing for effective data utilization. Key Features: • Data Source Integration: Connect to databases, APIs, files, and […]
Nginx: try_files Is Evil Too
We have by far the largest RPM repository with NGINX module packages and VMODs for Varnish. If you want to install NGINX, Varnish, and lots of useful performance/security software with smooth yum upgrades for production use, this is the repository for you. Active subscription is required. The benefits of try_files NGINX has many useful directives […]
Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL
insert into edges (type, from_id, to_id, details) values — Everyone in the fellowship is friends with everyone else (‘friend’, 1, 3, ‘{}’), — Frodo and Sam (‘friend’, 1, 5, ‘{}’), — Frodo and Gandalf (‘friend’, 1, 6, ‘{}’), — Frodo and Aragorn (‘friend’, 1, 8, ‘{}’), — Frodo and Legolas (‘friend’, 1, 10, ‘{}’), — […]
0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance
We’ll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast. If you’re interested strictly in TLS performance guidelines and don’t care about the details, skip right to the end — but be aware that you’ll be missing out on assembly listings of profound emotional depth, which can shake even a […]
An early social un-network
Feb 16, 2025 reminiscence POWCON Vax With one thing and another I’ve recently been feeling quite nostalgic for the technology landscape of my early university days (around 1990) and so I wanted to write a little bit about that. Background To set the scene for you, I was at university – or rather at polytechnic […]
Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a public facing website. It’s actual size is 6.4 TB. Which is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours. -rw-r–r– 1 searchcode searchcode 6.4T Feb 17 04:30 searchcode.db At least, I think its bigger. I have no evidence to the contrary, […]
Twitter blocks links to Signal messenger
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal. The “Signal.me” domain is specifically used by the service so that users can send out a quick link to directly contact them through the messaging app. X, formerly Twitter, is blocking users from posting […]
A Tail Calling Interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)
It’s been nearly four years since I published Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C. In that article, I presented a technique I co-developed for how to write really fast interpreters through the use of tail calls and the musttail attribute. While the article focused on Protocol Buffer parsers, […]
Word embeddings – Part 3: The secret ingredients of Word2Vec
This post will discuss the factors that account for the success of word2vec and its connection to more traditional models. Table of Contents: Excuse the rather clickbait-y title. This is a blog post that I meant to write for a while. In this post, I want to highlight the factors, i.e. the secret ingredients that […]
PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA
Details Published: February 15, 2025