Stories by wilsonzlin

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

Show HN: Searching 1B embeddings from disk in 15 ms on a single machine

Software 2.0 (2017)

Hierarchical Navigable Small World: a scalable nearest neighbor search

Future Directions for Optimizing Compilers (2018)

Show HN: 40M embeddings to find who knows what on HN

Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

Show HN: Scribe – AI search engine: navigate the web your way, minus the noise

Notes on a Smaller Rust (2019)

The Problem with Single-Threaded Shared Mutability (2015)

Stuff the identity function does in Rust (2015)

C Compilers Disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem (2010)

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (2011)

Rust: A Unique Perspective (2019)

Why Windows uses file extensions to determine file type

Performance Matters

The website obesity crisis (2015)

Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change

The Tao of Programming

Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced tomorrow