Stories by xk3

Building 20 (18 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The Mystery of Vertical Food

Solidarity (Polish Trade Union)

The World’s Most Expensive Yacht Doesn't Exist

Failure is a great teacher, but it is not the only teacher

The bad guy thinks he’s the good guy

A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click [video]

CPU Utilization Is Wrong (2017)

Process states from /proc/[pid]/stat versus /proc/stat's running and blocked

Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses

Water so pure it will kill you

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021)

Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx

Arms in a Glass Factory

Rat King (Disambiguation)

The Shape of Space

The Reinvention of Owens Lake

I freed up one TiB of space

Show HN: Cluster-Sort

History of the WWII Jerrycan

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