THE DAILY EDITIONSaturday, October 24, 2026

CS & research

5 items · 13 articles in this topic

A light day with no major papers. Most items were practitioner essays and retrospectives, and many summaries carry little detail.

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A retrospective on twelve years of building distributed SQLite systems, covering design lessons from replicated SQLite. It was posted on both Hacker News and Lobsters.
NotableHacker News (front page) ↗20 h ago5 min read
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A blog post argues UUIDv7 identifiers lack some properties developers commonly assume they have. The summary does not say which.
Hacker News (front page) ↗yesterday7 min read
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An essay examines how closely pure functional programming can approach the performance and control of C.
Hacker News (front page) ↗18 h ago8 min read
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Marc Brooker posted animations explaining distributed systems concepts for system builders.
Hacker News (front page) ↗yesterday3 min read
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A Lobsters thread links an ACM article on an incremental approach to building just-in-time compilers. The summary gives no detail.
Lobsters ↗19 h ago

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Big Runtimes Make Efficient Programs2
An essay argues that large language runtimes can still produce efficient programs, based on a Lobsters discussion thread.
Lobsters14 h agoruntimesperformanceprogramming
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Incremental Computation Graphs2
A Lobsters discussion thread about incremental computation graphs with no summary provided.
Lobstersyesterdayprogrammingdiscussion
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Attention people who think UB is fine2
Lobsters thread arguing against accepting undefined behavior in programming languages, with no details in the summary.
Lobstersyesterdayundefined-behaviorprogramming-languagesdiscussion
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Memory is slow, Disk is fast2
Lobsters thread on memory versus disk latency performance, with no details in the summary.
Lobstersyesterdayperformancediscussion
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No Source Code? No Problem2
An ACM Queue article discusses working without source code access, republished from an older piece.
Hacker News (front page)yesterdaysoftware-engineeringacm
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Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/945131.945155 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214994 Points: 26 # Comments: 15
Distributed data, centralized fixes2
Lobsters thread discussing distributed data and centralized fixes in system design, with no details in the summary.
Lobstersyesterdaydistributed-systemsdiscussion
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No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)2
Older article on porting a program when only its binary is available, with no source code.
Lobstersyesterdaybinaryportingreverse-engineering
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