Stories by man-and-laptop

AWS Clone – Like Cloud, but Honest

Dealing with GPT Results, Or, Pots, Kettles and Hallucinations

In depth analysis of database workloads and benchmarks

AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance

Evolution and Artificial Intelligence Face the Same Basic Problem

Clips a Tool for Building Expert Systems

Picat: A Logic-based Multi-paradigm Language (2014) [pdf]

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded (2023)

How does this bilibili video downloader work?

The GenAI Divide State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf]

The Java type system is broken (2018)

What is mathematics? A classification based on universals

Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective [pdf]

Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions: findings from real world transactions

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Ask HN: Tips for reducing LLM token usage?

AI and ML AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

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