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Technically-oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Specs, Decks, Manuals, etc) — browse & search it at tpn.github.io/pdfs

20 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 8 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-05-22 · latest 2026-04-15

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  1. i found the same file but that's only 44 pages long ? This ( https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Compiler%20Construct... ) seems to be a previous version (2005) and it's 131 pages long
    comment by znpy · 2026-04-15 · in Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
  2. …[6] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/imp... [7] https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Battle%20of%20SKM%20...
    comment by dhx · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract
  3. …and that SR-IOV is about "preventing and constraining" it? What virtualization actually is: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20Comparison%20of%... .
    comment by AshamedCaptain · 2025-07-01 · in I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
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    Writing a simple operating system – from scratch [pdf]
    story by andsoitis · 2025-04-11 · 0 comments
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    Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]
    story by fzliu · 2025-02-12 · 37 comments
  6. …DLL. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-for... (current, unversioned) [2] https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Microsoft%20Portable... §6.4.1 (version 6.0, 1999)
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2024-10-12 · in Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page
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    Memory Barriers – A Hardware View for Software Hackers [pdf]
    story by yamal4321 · 2024-03-26 · 0 comments
  8. …technical papers covers the AMD x64 inception -- it's gold if you're into low-level OS internals: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20History%20of%20M...
    comment by trentnelson · 2023-10-22 · in Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
  9. …The Implementation of Minimum Redundancy Prefix Codes contains all the usual tricks and then some: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/On%20the%20Implement...
    comment by psykotic · 2021-02-22 · in What Is Huffman Coding?
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    Technically-Oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Specs, Decks, Manuals, etc.)
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2020-10-25 · 0 comments
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    Different ways of improving CRC performance on Intel and AMD processors [pdf]
    story by Foe · 2020-08-18 · 0 comments
  12. Yes. An Introduction to Statistical Learning https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/An%20Introduction%20... Deep Learning https://books.google.com/books/about/Deep_Learning.html?id=o... Machine Learning Mastery books…
    comment by codesushi42 · 2019-07-09 · in New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing
  13. …and compilers generally use them freely (the same is not true for 512-bit) and effectively. --- [1] https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Fast%20Bit%20Compres... [2] I think there must be some small changes, since the LSD was re-enabled,…
    comment by BeeOnRope · 2018-12-07 · in AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
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    Tpn/pdfs: Technically-Oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Textbooks, Manuals, Etc)
    story by m_sahaf · 2018-10-21 · 0 comments
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    Tpn/pdfs: Technically-Oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Specs, Manuals, Etc)
    story by shawn · 2018-08-11 · 0 comments
  16. Found this mirror: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Practical%20File%20S...
    comment by endlessvoid94 · 2017-09-15 · in Practical File System Design: The Be File System (1999)
  17. Related: excellent article on IA64/x64 etc: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20History%20of%20M... Features quotes from various interviews with folks like David Cutler. Fascinating (and not surprising) to connect the dots between…
    comment by trentnelson · 2017-05-13 · in Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
  18. A great paper if you haven't already seen it: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20History%20of%20M...
    comment by trentnelson · 2016-09-11 · in 22nd Century C
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    A History of Modern 64-bit Computing – Feb 2007 [pdf]
    story by trentnelson · 2016-06-04 · 1 comment
  20. …Finished it about a month ago and absolutely loved it -- it was great when paired with this: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Windows%20Research%2... I sent a tweet to the author saying I was really enjoying the book when I was…
    comment by trentnelson · 2015-05-22 · in OCaml 4.03 will, “if all goes well”, support multicore