Stories by luu

Service X, Destroyer of Worlds

Knowing I’m Being Tricked Is Barely Enough

The structure of the special type of DOS files called directories (1998)

The High Priests of WordPress (2010)

The importance of the medium

Parallel web performance testing on a budget with Lighthouse and AWS Lambda

Hukou system

Facebook tracks users it thinks could threaten employees and offices

The case of the missing platform doors

The impact of the profit motive

The Earthquake Threat in Southwestern British Columbia [pdf]

Serializability, linearizability, and locality

The Escape of ArrayList.iterator()

Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately

Link prefetching

GMP bignums vs. Python bignums: performance and code examples

Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager (2007) [pdf]

Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusations of Racism

Mipsdis: a MIPS disassembler that runs in the browser

The Impact of New Short-Term Rental Regulations on New York City [pdf]