Update Jan 4: Wow, this thing really took off! 1BRC is discussed at a couple of places on the internet, including Hacker News, lobste.rs, and Reddit.
For folks to show-case non-Java solutions, there …

Freetype, included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex. There are so many layers to get it to do what it does that it's easy to get lost. From finding the font, to actually rendering it, and everything in between. Like most of the world, I use a rather…

Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███

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Why ornament matters in architecture

Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has issued instructions to ISPs to block shadow library Anna's Archive following a complaint by publishers.

The papers of Alan Turing and Donald Bayley relating to the Delilah project, a wartime collaboration seeking to develop a speech encryption system, including Turing's mathematical proofs and Bayley's trannoscriptions of Turing's lectures on electrical circuit…

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Wow. Did you know this? There exist *power over fiber* components that can provide 3v 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light coming through a standard multimode optical fiber.

These are very expensive, but also very cool!

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Some thoughts on LLVM Weekly after 10 years of uninterrupted publishing

The new fossil animals have been named Timorebestia, meaning ‘terror beasts’ in Latin. Adorned with fins down the sides of their body, a distinct head with long antennae, massive jaw structures inside their mouth and growing to more than 30cm in length, these…