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- 1First RFC1149 avian carrier packet up for auction at Christie's●The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's
A piece of internet history is on the auction block at Christie's: the first data packet ever transmitted using RFC1149, the famous April Fools' specification from 1990 that defined IP over carrier pigeon. The lot, listed under printed books, manuscripts and science, is drawing amused attention from the tech community, where the pigeon-based protocol has long been a beloved in-joke about network engineering humor.
- 2NetworkX with pyarrow cuts graph memory use 6-7x●Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings
A developer has shared a technique combining the NetworkX graph library with Apache Arrow's pyarrow to achieve six to seven times memory savings when working with large graphs. The discussion, posted on GitHub and surfaced on Hacker News, details how Arrow-backed storage reduces overhead. Python developers working with big network data are weighing in on the approach and its tradeoffs.
Repos
- CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDox High-performance, token-based structured data engine for .NET. A core component of REX, the technology behind CAPCOM