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What is Speculative Decoding? (70 minute read)

TLDR AI ↗ · 6d ago Cached

一篇70分钟阅读量的深度技术长文,从第一性原理推导投机解码(speculative decoding),构建涵盖EAGLE-3、多token预测(MTP)以及块扩散drafters(DFlash、DSpark)的统一框架,并讨论drafter训练中最小化KL散度的问题。

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The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-08

An in-depth look at the evolution of the Hetzner Cloud network stack, tracing how its networking architecture has been built and changed over time.

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NetBSD Playing with disklabels

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-26 Cached

The article provides a hands-on exploration of BSD disklabels on NetBSD 11, detailing their format, documentation sources, and structure through hex editing and C programming examples.

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What happens when a GPU writes memory

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-08 Cached

This article details the process of GPU memory writes, tracing the STG.E instruction through various hardware components like the load/store unit, coalescer, and L1 cache on an RTX 4090.

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The secret life of data in Valkey

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-07-26 Cached

Valkey uses different encodings like listpack and hashtable for its data types to balance memory and performance; understanding these internal structures can lead to significant memory savings.

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Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages?

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) ↗ · 2026-07-13 Cached

The article explains why making the entire stack out of guard pages is problematic, as it could lead to unbounded memory allocation and system hangs. Instead, fixed guard pages are preferred for bounded fault handling.

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Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Scheduler

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-06-27 Cached

A detailed technical article explaining the Linux kernel scheduler, including task_struct, scheduling classes, context switching, and the EEVDF algorithm.

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How (and why) rqlite takes control of the SQLite Write-Ahead Log

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-13 Cached

This article explains how rqlite, a distributed SQLite database, takes control of SQLite's Write-Ahead Log to enable efficient snapshotting for Raft consensus, avoiding full database copies by using the WAL as incremental state.

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