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@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 20, 2026 13:24
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active July 6, 2026 01:15
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@stvhwrd
stvhwrd / website-dl.md
Last active July 2, 2025 22:31
Download an entire website for offline use with wget. Internal inks will be corrected so that the entire downloaded site will work as it did online.

The best way to download a website for offline use, using wget

There are two ways - the first way is just one command run plainly in front of you; the second one runs in the background and in a different instance so you can get out of your ssh session and it will continue.

First make a folder to download the websites to and begin your downloading: (note if downloading www.SOME_WEBSITE.com, you will get a folder like this: /websitedl/www.SOME_WEBSITE.com/)


STEP 1:

@kristopolous
kristopolous / hn_seach.js
Last active November 12, 2025 07:49
hn job query search
// Usage:
// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
// then use as follows:
//
// query(term | [term, term, ...], term | [term, term, ...], ...)
//
// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
//
// Term is of the format:
// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )
/**
* This Google Sheets script keeps data in the specified column sorted any time
* the data changes.
*
* After much research, there wasn't an easy way to automatically keep a column
* sorted in Google Sheets, and creating a second sheet to act as a "view" to
* my primary one in order to achieve that was not an option. Instead, I
* created a script that watches for when a cell is edited and triggers
* an auto sort.
*
@lars-tiede
lars-tiede / asyncio_loops.py
Last active April 3, 2024 15:28
asyncio + multithreading: one asyncio event loop per thread
import asyncio
import threading
import random
def thr(i):
# we need to create a new loop for the thread, and set it as the 'default'
# loop that will be returned by calls to asyncio.get_event_loop() from this
# thread.
loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
@mfd
mfd / GTWalsheimPro.css
Last active January 25, 2026 05:41
GT Walsheim Pro
@font-face {
font-family: GT Walsheim Pro;
src: local("GT Walsheim Pro Regular"),local("GTWalsheimProRegular"),url(GTWalsheimProRegular.woff2) format("woff2"),url(GTWalsheimProRegular.woff) format("woff"),url(GTWalsheimProRegular.ttf) format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal
}
@font-face {
font-family: GT Walsheim Pro;
src: local("GT Walsheim Pro Bold"),local("GTWalsheimProBold"),url(GTWalsheimProBold.woff2) format("woff2"),url(GTWalsheimProBold.woff) format("woff"),url(GTWalsheimProBold.ttf) format("truetype");
@samuelcolvin
samuelcolvin / aiohttp_vs_sanic.md
Created June 3, 2017 11:55
comparing aiohttp and sanic performance

Requirements

python 3.6, postgres, pip install aiohttp uvloop ujson asyncpg sanic

aiohttp & uvloop

➤ wrk -d 10 -c 100 -t 12 --timeout 8 http://localhost:8000  # aiohttp
Running 10s test @ http://localhost:8000
@alairock
alairock / exceptions.py
Last active October 19, 2025 19:43
Python Async Retry Decorator.
class TooManyTriesException(BaseException):
pass
@simonw
simonw / redis-docker-for-mac.md
Last active August 26, 2024 17:27
How to run a redis server using Docker-for-Mac

How to run a redis server using Docker-for-Mac

This will work with other flavours of Docker as well.

Run the following command:

docker run --name my-redis -p 6379:6379 --restart always --detach redis

This will download and run redis, set to auto-restart when your machine starts and bound to port 6379 on your machine.