In my recent post on optimising zlib decompression for the Apple M1, I used a loop that refilled a bit-buffer and decoded a huffman code each iteration, based on variant 4 from Fabian Giesen’…

Excruciating. One phrase I often use to describe what it's like to read
reference letters for Eastern European applicants to PhD and Master's programs
in Cambridge.

Even objectively outstanding students often receive dull, short, factual, almost
negative…

Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO. He is a visionary and builder — having founded the earliest blogging platform and advised hundreds of startups over the last decade.

Improving the flowchart fun language

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This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google?
From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks…

If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …

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The ideas behind the DevOps movements undeniably changed the software development world for the better - but by now, the term “DevOps” has lost all meaning.
Sometimes an idea is so good, that you can’t argue with it. I’m not saying that the original idea…

That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common.

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Nature Climate Change - Greenland ice sheet melt is currently the largest single contributor to sea-level rise. This work combines observations and theory to show that Greenland ice sheet imbalance...

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A case study on how the government censors TV in China.

Google is not bound by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, but its actions in a false positive CSAM case show that it is flouting the spirit behind them.