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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,240 posts.
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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
Announcing Fly Machines
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java
Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend…
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
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React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. A few days ago, we wrote a post about upcoming changes to our legacy lifecycle methods, including gradual migration strategies. In React 16.3.0, we are adding a few new lifecycle methods to assist with that migration. We are also…
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Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...
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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.
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A brief history of Rust at Facebook
Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is o…
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Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services
Learn how Firezone uses the sans-IO pattern to build testable, deterministic Rust networking code. A deep dive into our connlib design.
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch onlin...
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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph
Have you ever run gitk and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of
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React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Today, we are publishing the first Release Candidate for React 17. It has been two and a half years since the previous major release of React, which is a long time even by our standards! In this blog post, we will describe the role of this…
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A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.
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A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
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How I Start: Erlang
Erlang releases are a bit like magnets. Everyone who thinks about them shares the same thought: f**king releases, how do they work?
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A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
Building a lock free continuous ring buffer
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Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
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A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)
8 April 2019 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 22 August 2022For most programmers, a C or C++ program’s life begins at the main function. They are blissfully unaware of the hidden steps that happen between invoking a program and executing main. Depending on the program and the compiler, there are all kinds of…
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Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed.
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Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
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Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder
A guide to building a transcoder using Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda.
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When to use Bazel?
Learn about the benefits and challenges of using Bazel, Google's open-source monorepo build system, from experts who have experience with it. D...
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Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.