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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
Modern Object Pascal Introduction: units, classes, generics, memory management, exceptions and more.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
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Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
Interface Vision is a group working on a software development platform that can be used without coding.
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Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules...
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Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
We identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, the first detailed look inside a production-grade language model.
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Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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What Happened to the Future?
We invest in smart people solving difficult problems, often difficult scientific or engineering problems. Here’s why. A. INTRODUCTION The Problem We have two primary and related interests: Finding ways to support technological development (technology is the fundamental driver of growth in the industrialized world)…
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Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars
All vehicles lose efficiency and range in very cold weather. Electric cars are no different. The good news, however, is that this range loss is temporary and not as limiting as many people may think.
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Photoshop’s journey to the web
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…
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Redeploying Fable 5
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, with updated cyber safeguards and a new jailbreak framework.
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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.
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Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the oldest parts of internet architecture, and remains one that has largely been untouched by efforts to make the web safer and more ...
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We have a problem with promises
No, not with promises themselves. Promises, as defined by the A+ spec , are awesome.
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User Agent Changes
Vivaldi is changing how it presents its User Agent in the upcoming release. Here is an explanation of what a User Agent is and what we are doing.
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Boeing Flies on 99% Ada
A discussion of how Boeing used Ada in its new 777 jet to run a complete fly-by-wire system that technicians backup and monitor with on-board floppy disks. The Ada Information Clearinghouse is the Ada Resource Association's official Web site on the Ada programming language and on software engineering.
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The State of SSL Stacks
The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.
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Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community
Why is Go open source, and how can we strengthen our open-source community?
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JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference
Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers.
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PEP 427 – The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0
This PEP describes a built-package format for Python called “wheel”.
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?
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Zaplib post-mortem
Welp, this is a weird blog post! Very unexpectedly, we quickly invalidated some of the core hypothesis that make Zaplib work as a startup.
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Seamless Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly
Feedly product updates, case studies, and resources to help you use AI to collect, analyze, and share intelligence. Start your free trial.
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Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life. Microsoft's Windows operating system was ascendant, and Microsoft leveraged its dominance to ensure that every Windows user relied on its Microsoft Office suite (...
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Django Security Release - 1.5.4
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 15, 2013
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The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options
One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the calculus seems simple: the employee will take more stock options for less cash, because over time the payoff could be...
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Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.