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Stories by eatonphil

PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon (anandtech.com)
L 43 pts 3 comments by eatonphil Jul 22, 2021 hardware Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Storing data in pointers (muxup.com)
L 42 pts 29 comments by eatonphil Nov 26, 2023 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
SQLite: QEMU all over again? (glaubercosta-11125.medium.com)
L 41 pts 51 comments by eatonphil Oct 4, 2022 databasespractices Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration (fsf.org)
L 40 pts 13 comments by eatonphil Feb 25, 2020 releasevcs Programming (General) thread
Not Just Scale (brooker.co.za)
L 39 pts 14 comments by eatonphil Jun 4, 2024 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo (datastation.multiprocess.io)
L 39 pts 22 comments by eatonphil May 12, 2022 databasesgoperformance Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Identity Crisis: Sequence v. UUID as Primary Key (brandur.org)
L 39 pts 31 comments by eatonphil May 6, 2022 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021 (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 39 pts 11 comments by eatonphil Aug 21, 2021 compilersplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
RFCs and asynchronous-first culture (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 39 pts 8 comments by eatonphil May 17, 2020 practices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs (pcgamer.com)
L 38 pts 26 comments by eatonphil Jan 8, 2026 hardware AI / Machine LearningMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
SSDs Have Become Ridiculously Fast, Except in the Cloud (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
L 37 pts 4 comments by eatonphil Feb 20, 2024 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS (twitter.com)
L 37 pts 10 comments by eatonphil Dec 12, 2022 zig Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
How do databases execute expressions? (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 36 pts 11 comments by eatonphil Sep 21, 2023 compilersdatabases Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available (lunduke.substack.com)
L 36 pts 19 comments by eatonphil Mar 15, 2022 hardware Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 35 pts 15 comments by eatonphil Sep 21, 2021 javascriptplt Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
"The Great ISAs" reading list (cs.cornell.edu)
L 35 pts 3 comments by eatonphil Apr 27, 2020 hardware Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite (blog.trailofbits.com)
L 34 pts 1 comments by eatonphil Oct 25, 2022 cdatabasessecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
A tiny language called Z (chrisdone.com)
L 34 pts 21 comments by eatonphil May 26, 2020 lisp Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Without the futex, it's futile (h4x0r.org)
L 33 pts 47 comments by eatonphil Aug 19, 2025 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? (jack-vanlightly.com)
L 33 pts 3 comments by eatonphil May 9, 2023 databaseshardware Data / Databases / InfrastructureMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
A simple JVM implementation in Lua (github.com)
L 33 pts 5 comments by eatonphil Mar 16, 2020 javalua Programming (General) thread
Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU (cloud.google.com)
L 32 pts 34 comments by eatonphil Apr 9, 2024 hardware Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Microvium is very small (coder-mike.com)
L 32 pts 12 comments by eatonphil Jun 21, 2022 cjavascriptplt Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged (github.com)
L 32 pts 16 comments by eatonphil Jul 2, 2021 databasesdistributedjavascript Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
How often is the query plan optimal? (vondra.me)
HN 32 pts 26 comments by eatonphil Jun 30, 2025 thread
HYTRADBOI 2022 postmortem (scattered-thoughts.net)
L 31 pts 4 comments by eatonphil May 3, 2022 databasesevent Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees (fly.io)
L 30 pts 2 comments by eatonphil Jul 27, 2022 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects (datastation.multiprocess.io)
L 30 pts 0 comments by eatonphil Mar 3, 2022 goperformance Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written ELF binary (github.com)
L 30 pts 3 comments by eatonphil Dec 5, 2021 plt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
How to Learn: Userland Disk I/O (transactional.blog)
L 29 pts 7 comments by eatonphil Nov 7, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread