Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 2,232 posts.
Hello, everyone! Click here for up to date build instructions Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates nat…
On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. Even though it is the Apple II version written in 6502 assembly language, it was a pleasant experience to dive in the code of that mythical game: As usual there were many fascinating sofware wizardries to discover. The Apple II apparent poor…
A while back I wrote that Robert Martin was ruining software by being too good at programming. That was supposed to be a joke. Since then he’s done his damndest to actually ruin software by telling people they’re doing it wrong. His most recent response where he yells at software correctness was the breaking point for…
In the fall of 2000, I took my first engineering class: ECE 352 , an entry-level digital design class for first-year computer engineers. It was standing room only, filled with waitlisted students who would find seats later in the semester as people dropped out. We had been warned in orientation that half of us…
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
You can just prove things, apparently.
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Matthias Felleisen jested "Why are you still using CL when Scrbl/Racket is so much better :-)" ? My response was as follows: Dear Matthias, you are right Racket is so much better in so many dimensions. I use Lisp because I just can't bear programming in a language without proper syntactic…
An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.
piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language written in pure, mostly safe Rust with an eye towards safe sandboxing and resiliency. It uses gc-arena for its garbage collection system, and in fact gc-arena was originally created as part of piccolo .
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
Vulnerability discovery has always been gated by elite attention. Elite attention is now abundant. What happens next?
Occasional writings about Haskell.
When I ask people at trendy big tech companies why algorithms quizzes are mandatory, the most common answer I get is something like "we have so much scale, we can't afford to have someone accidentally write an O(n^2) algorithm and bring the site down" 1 . One thing I find funny about this is, even though a decent…
A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.
Julia 1.0 came out well over 2 years ago. Since then a lot has changed and a lot hasn’t. Julia 1.0 was a commitment to no breaking changes, but that is not to say no new features have been added to the language.
Battlefield 3’s Battlelog system is an interesting web application that many of us missed. Here is why it’s amazing and worth a look at.
I wrote a self-hosting C compiler which I named 8cc in 40 days. This is a log when I was writing it from scratch by myself in 2012. The code and its history are available at GitHub .
SecurityTube.net Hack of the Day2013258 points138 commentscited by 3Life, Learning & Writing details
One of the first things I do every morning is check the Twitter chatter about my website ( @SecurityTube ) . I was pleasantly surprised to ...
Building a log-based architecture that’s fast, efficient, and resilient on the new stream data structure in Redis.
It’s That Blog Post. The release one, where we round up all the last of the features approved since the last time I blogged. If you’re
However recently it added a killer feature: generated columns . (This was added in 3.31.0, released 2020-01-22.)
Many new Transformer architecture improvements have been proposed since my last post on “The Transformer Family” about three years ago. Here I did a big refactoring and enrichment of that 2020 post — restructure the hierarchy of sections and improve many sections with more recent papers. Version 2.0 is a superset of…
I was recently interviewed by Fog Creek and one of the questions was about my favorite programming, coding and development books. I got very excited by this question as I'm a huge book nerd. I love books about computers, programming, and science. Every few months I spend a day or two researching the latest…
