xal

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• YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient

  by xal on 1/15/2025, 12:28 AM with 0 comments

• Algorithms we develop software by

  by xal on 8/18/2024, 6:47 PM with 106 comments

• LLama.cpp now has a web interface

  by xal on 7/5/2023, 5:33 PM with 49 comments

• Kopia UI – compressed cloud backups

  by xal on 3/20/2022, 2:50 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Download your kindle highlights to a folder as Markdown

  by xal on 1/18/2021, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• RFC: React Server Components

  by xal on 12/22/2020, 3:08 AM with 0 comments

• Redpanda – A Kafka compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads

  by xal on 11/13/2020, 5:24 PM with 0 comments

• CovidShield – open-source GAEN App with government traction

  by xal on 5/23/2020, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Epic run an event in fortnite called the The End. Then turned off all servers

  by xal on 10/14/2019, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify stores are selling $600k a minute right now

  by xal on 11/23/2018, 3:08 PM with 0 comments

• AR shopping gets simpler with AR Quick Look (Safari iOS 12)

  by xal on 7/11/2018, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Prisma. The AI Camera (iOS)

  by xal on 7/10/2016, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify gave it's employees $1m to spend on Shopify stores

  by xal on 12/21/2015, 9:54 PM with 0 comments

• New Relic (NEWR) IPO Opens Up 31%

  by xal on 12/12/2014, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify's 5th build a business competition: A week on Branson's island

  by xal on 9/22/2014, 2:24 PM with 0 comments

• Scientists Blow The Lid on Cancer & Sunscreen Myth

  by xal on 7/6/2014, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• The CoreOS Epoch

  by xal on 6/30/2014, 1:00 PM with 0 comments

• All new batman.js website. JavaScript framework extracted from Shopify

  by xal on 9/4/2013, 9:23 PM with 0 comments

• I'd like to have an argument: A primer on Consensus

  by xal on 7/9/2013, 12:11 AM with 0 comments

• NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale

  by xal on 6/24/2013, 5:03 PM with -1 comments

• Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

  by xal on 6/16/2013, 3:20 PM with 83 comments

• SAP Acquires Hybris

  by xal on 6/5/2013, 2:59 PM with 0 comments

• Cloudera Impala 1.0: SQL on Hadoop

  by xal on 5/2/2013, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• Cause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed

  by xal on 4/24/2013, 12:19 AM with 0 comments

• What's new in Mysql 5.6

  by xal on 3/30/2013, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• What it’s like to work with Mark Pincus

  by xal on 3/1/2013, 2:53 AM with 0 comments

• Pick your compass metric

  by xal on 2/21/2013, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Email transparency

  by xal on 2/12/2013, 4:50 PM with 64 comments

• Own3d.tv shutting down

  by xal on 1/31/2013, 4:04 AM with 0 comments

• Shopify's killer 2012

  by xal on 1/16/2013, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify sells 1 billion worth of products

  by xal on 10/9/2012, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• NY Times: Jack Dorsey Role At Twitter Reduced

  by xal on 10/6/2012, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• Kosmos distributed file system

  by xal on 8/12/2012, 12:26 AM with 0 comments

• Dota2 uses Protocol Buffers as replay format

  by xal on 8/8/2012, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify's 1m competition

  by xal on 7/10/2012, 1:55 PM with 1 comments

• Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Reportedly Has Cancer

  by xal on 6/6/2012, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing

  by xal on 5/28/2012, 11:30 PM with 0 comments

• Rob Pike on designing a concurrent lexer in Go

  by xal on 4/21/2012, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• I have a business idea

  by xal on 3/29/2012, 7:42 PM with 2 comments

• Garbage collection in Ruby 2.0

  by xal on 3/23/2012, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Sim City's new glassbox engine

  by xal on 3/20/2012, 11:24 PM with 0 comments

• Mitel Networks suing Facebook

  by xal on 3/20/2012, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• Go got exceptions right

  by xal on 1/22/2012, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify's 2011 in review

  by xal on 1/21/2012, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Germany installs twice as much solar energy in December as USA in 2011

  by xal on 1/15/2012, 3:22 PM with -1 comments

• Twitter redesign

  by xal on 12/8/2011, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby 1.9.3 released

  by xal on 10/30/2011, 2:44 PM with 43 comments

• Shopify throws weight behind Stripe

  by xal on 10/3/2011, 10:00 PM with 0 comments

• About Unicorn. Shopify's internal software that runs the entire company.

  by xal on 8/2/2011, 5:55 PM with 1 comments

• Entrepreneur's Checklist

  by xal on 7/9/2011, 2:52 AM with 0 comments

• Shopify donate's 100k to acumen fund to start even more businesses

  by xal on 6/28/2011, 6:24 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do you censor your children's internet?

  by xal on 6/12/2011, 7:15 PM with 3 comments

• Shopify is next in 37signals' public customer happiness report card movement

  by xal on 6/1/2011, 7:25 PM with 7 comments

• Getting back into Ruby on Rails

  by xal on 5/30/2011, 8:41 PM with 0 comments

• Hacking the customer acquisition game through contests

  by xal on 5/2/2011, 4:47 PM with 0 comments

• Accordion Guy joins Shopify

  by xal on 4/25/2011, 9:12 AM with 0 comments

• What science does with cell phone data [video]

  by xal on 4/24/2011, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding The Matchmaking System in Starcraft II

  by xal on 2/14/2011, 4:33 AM with 0 comments

• Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released

  by xal on 2/12/2011, 5:22 PM with 8 comments

• Shopify's Minecraft server

  by xal on 2/5/2011, 6:31 PM with 0 comments

• OLAP engine working on top of HBase

  by xal on 1/8/2011, 7:00 PM with 3 comments

• Shopify's Year 2010 in numbers (infographic)

  by xal on 1/1/2011, 4:54 PM with 0 comments

• DODOCase, 100k sales in the first months

  by xal on 11/19/2010, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• Shopify's path to Rails 3

  by xal on 11/16/2010, 6:50 PM with 16 comments

• Mysql "Swap Insanity"

  by xal on 9/29/2010, 3:48 AM with 26 comments

• DODOcase (YC alumni) goes on to win Shopify's $100k contest

  by xal on 7/19/2010, 1:58 PM with 1 comments

• Profitable & Proud: Shopify

  by xal on 6/3/2010, 6:25 PM with 55 comments

• Ask HN: What formula do you use for calculating subscriber churn?

  by xal on 1/26/2010, 7:27 PM with 2 comments

• Shopify Acquires StoreSync

  by xal on 1/8/2010, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Hacker CEOs, what do you use for number crunching?

  by xal on 1/2/2010, 4:17 PM with 1 comments

• Redis can now batch operations and execute them atomically

  by xal on 12/27/2009, 9:52 PM with 3 comments

• Build a Business, win $100,000

  by xal on 12/8/2009, 5:29 PM with 19 comments

• Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail

  by xal on 12/6/2009, 8:12 PM with 7 comments

• Futures, the little known feature that would fix evented programming

  by xal on 11/24/2009, 4:32 AM with 0 comments

• Why the 80-20 Rule is Wrong

  by xal on 10/3/2009, 3:08 PM with 22 comments

• Building a Data Intensive Web Application with Hadoop

  by xal on 10/3/2009, 1:46 AM with 0 comments

• Shopify brings Akamai CDN to all of it's 5000 e-commerce stores for free

  by xal on 7/15/2009, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• Really interesting use of Augmented Reality

  by xal on 6/18/2009, 1:47 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: How to deal with SYN FLOOD and extortion

  by xal on 3/24/2009, 10:26 PM with 50 comments

• Rails: Support for "418 I'm a Teapot"

  by xal on 12/13/2008, 11:18 PM with 0 comments

• Passenger and Shopify: "I cannot see any reason to choose a different deployment strategy"

  by xal on 11/16/2008, 2:06 AM with 1 comments