HN blogs - 4/4/24
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion https://mitxela.com/projects/slide2 (HN source)
LLM Task-Specific Evals That Do and Don't Work https://eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/ (HN source)
Bashing Bevy to Bait Internet Strangers into Improving My Code https://oneirical.github.io/bevyrage/ (HN source)
Performance insights: Engineering for high performance https://hkupty.github.io/penna/blog/performance-insights-specialized/ (HN source)
When and how to move from an assumption to a hypothesis https://grillopress.github.io/2024/03/12/moving-from-an-assumption-to-a-hypothesis.html (HN source)
Yi-34B, Llama 2, and common practices in LLM training https://blog.eleuther.ai/nyt-yi-34b-response/ (HN source)
XDP for Game Programmers https://mas-bandwidth.com/xdp-for-game-programmers/ (HN source)
Reverse engineering Bandcamp authentication protocol https://mijailovic.net/2024/04/04/bandcamp-auth/ (HN source)
Mitchell Hashimoto joins Polar.sh as an advisor https://mitchellh.com/writing/polar (HN source)
Demystifying HTTP with Telnet https://ivdl.co.za/2024/02/19/demystifying-http-with-telnet/ (HN source)
Exploring batch caching of trees in Ruby https://blog.julik.nl/2024/04/batch-caching-of-trees (HN source)
The Video That Inspired Me to Create Odin https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/04/04/video-that-inspired-odin/ (HN source)
Optimizing rendering of 100,000+ HTML nodes https://dimden.dev/blog/?id=13-optimizing-rendering-of-100k-html-nodes (HN source)
Actual Automation https://samwing.dev/posts/dQ3wKkKozhyI (HN source)
Managing Node.js processes: why do people still use pm2? https://jrfom.com/posts/2023/12/15/node-process-management/ (HN source)
XZ backdoor is not the end of open source https://beny23.github.io/posts/xz_backdoor_is_not_the_end_of_open_source/ (HN source)
Apache Kafka and Tinybird (ClickHouse) for Streaming Analytics HTTP APIs https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2024/04/04/apache-kafka-and-tinybird-clickhouse-for-streaming-analytics-http-apis/ (HN source)
HTTP/2 Continuation Flood https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood/ (HN source)
Against URL-Based Content Rendering https://susam.net/against-url-based-content-rendering.html (HN source)
Abstraction is much more than interfaces https://andreiboar.com/posts/abstraction-is-much-more-than-interfaces/ (HN source)
PostgreSQL and Its Annoying Crosstab https://blog.aurelianix.com/2024/04/04/postgresql-and-its-annoying-crosstab/ (HN source)
NixOS Is Not Reproducible https://linderud.dev/blog/nixos-is-not-reproducible/ (HN source)
Use OpenVPN as a proxy to more comfortably access internal Gitlab https://blog.kulman.sk/use-openvn-as-proxy/ (HN source)
Pandoc: Convert links to footnotes (the easy way) https://garrit.xyz/posts/2024-04-04-pandoc-convert-links-to-footnotes-the-easy-way (HN source)
My attempt to explain the xz backdoor https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/xz-backdoor/ (HN source)
Linux Shellcraft: The Pipe Trick https://joev.dev/posts/linux-shellcraft-pipe-tricks (HN source)
Dear San Francisco – Please return my property in accordance with Victims Rights https://jeffbayer.com/blog/please-return-my-property/ (HN source)
How to take down production with a single Helm command https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/04/04/helm-rollbljat/ (HN source)
A Directory of Self-Hosted Software https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/ (HN source)
Measuring your system's performance using software (Go edition) https://lemire.me/blog/2024/03/17/measuring-your-systems-performance-using-software-go-edition/ (HN source)