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My Future with Elixir: set-theoretic types
We announce and explore the possibilities for bringing set-theoretic types into Elixir.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 207 posts.
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The top programming languages
Explore the top programming languages on GitHub—and what languages are growing the fastest.
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Competitive programming with AlphaCode
Solving novel problems and setting a new milestone in competitive programming.
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</> htmx ~ When Should You Use Hypermedia?
This essay by Carson Gross explores when to use hypermedia in web development, highlighting its advantages and trade-offs. Carson discusses scenarios where hypermedia is a good fit, such as text and image-heavy UIs, CRUD applications, and nested UIs with well-defined areas. He also addresses when hypermedia may not be…
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If PHP Were British (2011)
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
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Amish Hackers (2009)
[Translations: Japanese] The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well known the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm with manual tools and ride in … Continue reading →
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Lisp in Space
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you take someone who's passionate about LISP and put them in an organization where that's just not how they write software. Today's story is about getting LISP into space. The…
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Moving from React to htmx
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
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C isn't a programming language anymore
Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them . Where we’re not aligned is why we’re mad about them.
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Go maps in action
How and when to use Go maps.
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Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.
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Data Race Detector
Data races are among the most common and hardest to debug types of bugs in concurrent systems. A data race occurs when two goroutines access the same variable concurrently and at least one of the accesses is a write. See the The Go Memory Model for details.
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Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
It’s an exciting time in the Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast community – that was a joke, there is no enthusiast community, it’s just me! 😆
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even remotely helpful. WebAssembly ?!
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Performance Improvements in .NET 7
.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.
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Uxn is a virtual machine with 32 instructions
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
(I'm still looking for the catchiest way to appreciate the number MMXXVI. Exercise 7.2.1.6–122 gives 1234+.5*6+789 and -1+2345*6/7+8+9 and 1+(2/3)*45*67.8-9 ; other suggestions are welcome. The most elegant that I've seen so far is a beauty that was suggested independently by Arnaud Lefebvre and by Evangelos…
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Just use Postgres for everything
Replace Redis, MongoDB, Kafka & more with PostgreSQL. Reduce complexity, boost development speed. Complete guide with real examples.
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Oberon (2009)
Steven Frank's essay on the current state of the desktop UI 1 reminded me of Oberon, a delightfully insane system I used back when I was studying computer science at ETH Zürich. The first thing you have to understand about Oberon is that it evolved entirely outside of the normal genealogy of user interfaces…
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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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New(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
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The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese. (V2 Nov 2022: Updated images for more precise description of forward diffusion. A few more images in this version) AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking visuals from text descriptions has a magical…