what i wish someone had told me: blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-so…

Extremely counterintuitive and extremely true: "It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people."

one trick to programming productivity is figure out half of the structure of your program by thinking hard, and then discover the other half from the process of trying to actually write the code for what you've been picturing

If you're a developer and you haven't read Designing Data Intensive Applications, treat yourself. It is an excellent introduction to data and distributed systems thinking, and it's one of the best written and most fun books on software. For experienced developers, there is no

🐝 Using #eBPF to detect noisy neighbors at Netflix! Our latest blog post explains how we leverage eBPF to continuously instrument the Linux scheduler, which helps us detect CPU contention in multitenant environments. netflixtechblog.com/noisy-neighbor…

@lizrice & John Fastabend explore how it's possible to implement Conway's Game of Life in eBPF in this new blog post! 🗞️ isovalent.site/47o5D2g

🇮🇳 India’s Rajasthan-7 PHWR #Nuclear Plant Achieves First Criticality With Commercial Operation Expected This Year. #nuclearpower #nuclearenergy Unit is third in planned series of 16 indigenous plants nucnet.org/news/rajasthan…

Today in a meeting, I said my brain probably got smaller because of Go but it's a good thing. I don't deal with indirection, over-abstraction, circular dependencies, syntactic sugar magic, you name it...

I am taking students in Fall 2025, if you are interested in storage systems, databases, and machine learning systems, please apply to the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. seas.harvard.edu/computer-scien…

I recommend this very straightforward book about writing. It is mostly about the mechanics of writing. Its main message is simple: Schedule time for writing on your weekly calendar, and at those times sit down to write. muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/04/book-r…

Hash tables are among the most thoroughly studied data structures in all of computer science. A recent advance in their efficiency initially sounded too good to be true. quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-…

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Blog: Intuiting TLS The thought process of starting with "I want to talk privately on the internet" & ending up on something that looks like TLS. kprotty.me/2025/04/01/int…

Check out cpu.land - it's a fun learning experience!

I revisited this article recently. The number of things I learned while writing it, and from the discussion on HN was mind blowing. Can't believe it's already been 1.5 years since it was published.

This is a great summary of the history of Go’s garbage collector, and a small glimpse into why Go became so prevalent in the distributed systems space so quickly

Our metrics of consistency are completely broken, and that's why most people fail to build lasting habits. We've all heard "what you cannot measure, you cannot manage," but there's more to that: if you cannot measure correctly, you cannot change sustainably. Our obsession with

most people mess up bechmarking because they fail to generate the right type of load. they are often just measuring how contended some benchmarking tool is.

[new blog post] Optimize for momentum muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/optimi…

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become