Stories by luu

Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19

The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event

A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations (1971) [pdf]

Post-Open Source

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?

“Why is the government paying us money, instead of just firing us all?”

I have to solve a CAPTCHA to update my graphics drivers

NSCache (2012)

Classic Bug Reports (2015)

The design of lock_sock() in Linux kernel (2018)

YouTube deleted a video on the origin of the word “cuck”

Estimating the ROI of Insulation

Employment gold cards issued to foreign nationals rise nearly 80%

Coping with Cats

Probable Evidence of Fecal Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a High-Rise

What should go into an allocator benchmark?

Florida’s Flooded Future

The Average New Car Loan Is Now over 70 Months

Sea Level Rise

Mutant: Balancing Storage Cost and Latency in LSM-Tree Data Stores (2018) [pdf]

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