Stories by luu

Fun with the Great Firewall

Does the LFENCE instruction make any sense in x86 processors?

It’s Too Hard to Publish Criticisms and Obtain Data for Replication

Twitter News

Wire-Wrap Days

Memory Reordering Caught in the Act

Expii: A community-built textbook

We Have a Long Way to Go

The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Sender and Recipient Untraceability (1988)

Google Voice: So Long, and Thanks for Losing My Texts

Linux process states

Diagnosing weird problems – a Stack Overflow case study (2012)

Fast median search: an ANSI C implementation (1998)

Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation

Google Is Going Through a Rough Transition

The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine?

RFC 1

Decoding Floats

Why I Hate Images

Threat modeling for FPGA software backdoors