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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 532 posts.
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Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet
One of the many lies in Silver Lake and WP Engine’s C&D was their claim that Automattic demanded money from them moments before our CEO Matt Mullenweg gave his keynote at WordCamp US. Tha…
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The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)
All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a competitive advantage over C++. Or, for that…
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Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
LLMs have the potential to revolutionise our field of healthcare, but the fear and reality of hallucinations prevent adoption in most applications.
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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released
The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02
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Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos
The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and reported a leaked access token with administrator access to Python’s, PyPI’s and Python Software Foundation’s GitHub repositories, which was leaked in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub. As a community service, the JFrog Security Research team…
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My talk on CSS runtime performance
A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: (You can also read the slides.) This is…
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Dissecting the gzip format (2011)
In this article I describe the DEFLATE algorithm that GZIP implements and depends on. The DEFLATE algorithm uses a combination of LZ77, Huffman codes and run-length-encoding; this article describes each in detail by walking through an example and developing source code to implement the algorithm. My aim is to…
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Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis
Maximize the performance of your hardware with memory access amortization
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20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
05 Sept 2024 — Oxford PV, a global leader in next-generation solar, has started the commercialisation of their record-breaking tandem solar technology with the first shipment to a U.S.-based customer.
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Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
We’re sharing how we streamline system reliability investigations using a new AI-assisted root cause analysis system. The system uses a combination of heuristic-based retrieval and large language m…
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Flags Are Not Languages
Famous Birthdays has been described as a “ Wikipedia for Gen-Z ”. It’s an insight into popularity across the internet of influencers, not just from traditional stage and screen but also social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram.
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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Merging Remix and React Router
We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.
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Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)
Backpressure is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point, and for some it’s a frequent problem. But…
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A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube
At last, the Hamiltonian circuit problem for Rubik's Cube has a solution! To be a little more mathematically precise, a Hamiltonian circuit of the quarter-turn metric Cayley graph for the Rubik's Cube group has been found.
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A legal and moral question: The crash of Turkish Airlines flight 981 (2021)
The story of how McDonnell Douglas’s corporate culture led to the deaths of 346 people in one of the deadliest plane crashes of all time.
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The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly
The CAP theorem is too simplistic and too widely misunderstood to be of much use for characterizing systems.
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Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.