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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. 2,232 posts.
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Elm 0.19 Broke Us
Elm 0.19 was released yesterday. There were a significant number of breaking changes at every level:...
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A better introduction to Objective-C
Khám phá những chuyển động mới nhất của thể thao thế giới với tin tức, sự kiện, giải đấu, màn trình diễn ấn tượng và câu chuyện nổi bật từ nhiều bộ môn hấp dẫn.
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Crafting Interpreters
We’ll spend the rest of this book illuminating every dark and sundry corner of the Lox language, but it seems cruel to have you immediately start grinding out code for the interpreter without at least a glimpse of what we’re going to end up with.
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The Little C Function From Hell
Does the standard say whether or not “char” is “unsigned char” or “signed char”? (I guess not from what you wrote above.)
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SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance
This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails
There was a Simpsons episode, I can’t recall correctly, but I think Bart recorded Lisa when her heart broke and he watched it in slow motion to stop exactly at that point. I thought of this e…
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JSX over the Wire
Turning your API inside-out.
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So you want to write a GUI framework
Through several recent discussions of GUI programming in Rust,I have been left with the impression that the term ‘GUI’ means significantlydifferent things to...
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Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time. Prologue It's
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Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
In 1995 Netscape partnered with Sun Microsystems to create interactive websites . Famously Brendan Eich spent only 10 days to create the first version of JavaScript - a dynamic programming language with a roughly syntactic lineage from Sun’s Java language. As a result of this partnership Sun held the trademark…
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Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)
As programmers we occasionally find ourselves in “Programmer’s Hell”, where our regular abstractions fail to satisfactory solve certain recurrent problems.
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An opinionated guide to Haskell
For me, this month marks the end of an era in my life: as of February 2018, I am no longer employed writing Haskell. It’s been a fascinating two years, and while I am excitedly looking forward to what I’ll be doing next, it’s likely I will continue to write Haskell in my spare time. I’ll probably even write it again…
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It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is
Last week I was trying to add some testing code to libsecp256k1 and I was pulling out my hair trying to get it to work. No amount of printf was working to illuminate what I was doing wrong. Finally, out of desperation, I thought I would do a quick check to see if there are any compiler bugs related to memcmp , and lo…
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Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks
Hey! If you are a web developer, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a service for tracking and logging errors in JavaScript, with some pretty exciting features. “F.D.R.’s War Pla…
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Storing Passwords Securely
Why "SHA 256-bits enterprise-grade password encryption" is only slightly better than storing passwords in plain text, and better ways to do it.
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/dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them
Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd , respectively.
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Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.
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Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.
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The category design pattern
A programming design pattern inspired by category theory
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Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code
“shouldn’t this have been published a few months ago?” yeah, probably. I even considered submitting it to the AoC contest. time is a real beast. The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out…
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WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
I found this interesting print-ad for WordPerfect for UNIX, apparently the best UNIX product of 1992! (Very) Belated congratulations Corel!
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Four features that justify a new Unix shell
On a lobste.rs thread about the rationale for the Fennel language, I posted this summary of why Oil exists:
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Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
Why Vmail? Because some people are 1000 times more productive and happy in Vim than in any web browser or GUI program.
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Why I'm Making Python 2.8
For the past two months I've been spending half my time on Tauthon . Tauthon is a backwards-compatible Python interpreter that runs Python 2 code and C-extensions exactly as-is, while also allowing Python 2 programmers to use the most exciting new language features from Python 3. These new backported language features…
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TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)
An exploration of the layout models of TeX and Typst.
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Write More Classes
Furthermore I am of the oppinion that Python developers should write more classes.