Articles by cyndunlop
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The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)

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Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14 (popsci.com)

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Report on why developers use LLMs to write blog posts (twitter.com/c_a_dunlop)

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New species discovered on expedition to Channel Islands National Park (sfgate.com)

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Why everything breaks at 150 people (falconer.com)

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Offloading I/O to Dedicated Cores: An Asymmetric io_uring Back end for Seastar (scylladb.com)

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Building the AI Retrieval Infrastructure Behind 20B+ Vectors at HubSpot (hubspot.com)

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Write That Blog (writethat.blog)

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In Defense of AI Mandates (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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Make AI Boring Again (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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Why developers use LLMs to write blog posts (writethatblog.substack.com)

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At the Ambitious New A.I Museum, You Feel the Art, and It Feels You Right Back (nytimes.com)

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Discord Automates ScyllaDB Clusters at Scale (discord.com)

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You've Got (Too Much) Mail: Behind the Scenes of the 3/25/26 Voice Outage (discord.com)

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Ask HN: How do you respond to blog posts that seem AI assisted?

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Ask HN: Why/how do you use LLMs to draft tech blogs?

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How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews? (nytimes.com)

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High memory usage in Postgres is good (planetscale.com)

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Gergely Orosz on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Future Casting the Modern Data Stack (motherduck.com)

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What Happens with Open Source in the Age of AI? (turso.tech)

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Integrated Gauges: Lessons Learned Monitoring Seastar's IO Stack (scylladb.com)

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Writing for Developers (manning.com)

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800th blog post: Write that Blog (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything) (discord.com)

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We Wrote a Book: Writing for Developers (Manning Publications) (github.com/scynthiadunlop)

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Data vs. Hype: How Orgs Win with AI – The Pragmatic Summit [video] (youtube.com)

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Implementing a Clear Room Z80 / ZX Spectrum Emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)

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The Deceptively Simple Act of Writing to Disk (scylladb.com)

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Index, Count, Offset, Size (tigerbeetle.com)

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Living in the Inflection Point (brittanyellich.com)

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Sean Goedecke on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Beyond FTS5: Building Transactional Full-Text Search in TursoDB (turso.tech)

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Building a Movie Recommendation Agent (rokn.io)

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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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One for the Treble, Two for the Time (tigerbeetle.com)

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Agent Safety Is a Box (brooker.co.za)

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Technical Blogging Lessons Learned (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Lyft's Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution (lyft.com)

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The Taming of Collection Scans (scylladb.com)

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Atmospheric Computing (pfrazee.com)

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Advice for New Tech Bloggers (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Book: Latency (manning.com)

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The Impact of Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Why Write Engineering Blogs? (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini on Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2E (oreilly.com)

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Intellectual Fly Is Open (dtrace.org)

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References for "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition" (github.com/ept)

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Preston Thorpe on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Scaling HNSWs (antirez.com)

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SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable (sunshowers.io)

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Global weather data from flying airplanes (clickhouse.com)

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The Learning Loop and LLMs (martinfowler.com)

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Eric Lippert: I'm writing another book (ericlippert.com)

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Book: Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms (manning.com)

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"The Bug Hunt" blog post pattern (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Systems Programming with Zig Book (manning.com)

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Aaron Francis on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Te (brendangregg.com)

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Scott Hanselman: Tech Promised Everything. Did It Deliver? (youtube.com)

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Republicans Supersized Silicon Valley's Favorite Tax Break (nytimes.com)

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Writing for Developers (gotopia.tech)

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Unlocking Tokio's Hidden Gems: Determinism, Paused Time, and Local Execution (pierrezemb.fr)

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Ask HN: What newsletters do you follow?

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Biggest Raspberry Pi cluster is now at UCSB (ucsb.edu)

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Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment (charity.wtf)

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The Promise of Rust (youtube.com)

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How Much Should I Be Spending on Observability? (honeycomb.io)

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Jim Gray: "You're not writing enough." (manning.com)

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)

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Jeff Atwood on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Sam Rose on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Writing for Developers Book Club (eatonphil.com)

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HiTeX Press books – AI generated? (books.apple.com)

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Patterns of Low Latency [video] (youtube.com)

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QueryGPT – Natural Language to SQL Using Generative AI (uber.com)

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eBPF Summit 2024 Videos (youtube.com)

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Clues in Long Queues: High IO Queue Delays Explained (scylladb.com)

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A survey on the evolution of stream processing systems (springer.com)

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Database Building Blocks Seminar Series – Fall 2024 (cmu.edu)

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Scaling an ML Feature Store from 1M to 1B Features per Second (thenewstack.io)