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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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Guide to Linux System Calls (2016)
This complete guide explains all about Linux system calls with sample codes and results.
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Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content
When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recomm…
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Native reactive spreadsheet in 17 LOC
After the release of our reactive framework a few days ago, we though it would be a good idea to implement the, often mentioned, spreadshee...
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Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark
Using TLA+ at eSpark Learning
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Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization
Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI) developed by Oracle Labs. TruffleRuby has high potential in…
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LLVM 3.8 Release Notes
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.8. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Apache Arrow Flight SQL: Accelerating Database Access
This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.
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Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
Learn about some new ways students can code in the browser. With online integrated development environments (IDEs), students can get right to work in a web browser, avoiding software conflicts that might happen on their local machines.
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Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
Chronos: A Replacement for Cron By Florian Leibert, Harry Shoff, & Andy Kramolisch Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos …
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Common Lisp: Numbers
A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
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HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
A binary-compatible unikernel
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Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009)
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research At Microsoft Research, there are computer scientists and mathematicians who live in a world of theory and abstractions. Then there is Nachi Nagappan, who was on loan to the Windows development group for a year while building a triage system for software bugs. For Nagappan, a…
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Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare.
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Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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GCC 8.2 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 8. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 8 page and the full GCC documentation .
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Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8
.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.
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Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
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Crystal 0.31
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
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Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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Go 2017 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced co...
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Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algorithm, Not a Random One
NetworkSolutions.com - Original domain name registration and reservation services with variety of internet-related business offerings. Quick, dependable and reliable.
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Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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