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Why Use F#?
Why you should consider using F# for your next project
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 211 posts.
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Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
A detailed look at how we replaced the most performance-sensitive portions of the source-map JavaScript Library’s source map parser with Rust code that is compiled to WebAssembly. The results: The ...
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Datomic: Event Sourcing without the hassle
When I got started using the Datomic database, I remember someone describing it to me as 'Event Sourcing without the hassle'. Having built Event Sourcing systems both with and without Datomic, I think this is very well put, although it might not be obvious, especially if you don't have much experience with Datomic.
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Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas... Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language....
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The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
Just as algebra is fundamental to the whole of mathematics, algebraic data types (ADTs) are fundamental to many common functional programming languages. They’re the primitives upon which all of our richer data structures are built, including everything from sets, maps, and queues, to bloom filters and neural networks .
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Fear of Macros
Practical Racket macros
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Prospecting for Hash Functions
Update 2022 : TheIronBorn has found even better permutations using a smarter technique. That thread completely eclipses my efforts in this article.
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Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers.
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The Story of ISPC: Intel SPMD Program Compiler
Collected together all for your convenience.
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
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Learn just a little Awk (2010)
An Awk tutorial by example. Learn practical Awk incantations in just a few minutes.
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React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
Please read this update instead: Why Create a New Unix Shell? (2021) . This page is obsolete!
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Building a fast Electron app with Rust
When I built Finda , I wanted it to be fast — specifically, to respond to all user input within 16 milliseconds.
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One-Process Programming Notes
This content covers my recent exploration of writing internet services, iOS apps, and macOS programs as an indie developer.
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Racket-On-Chez Status
posted by Matthew Flatt with thanks to collaborators Kent Dybvig, Andy Keep, Gustavo Massaccesi, Sarah Spall, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Jon Zeppieri It's been almost a year since we decided to try running Racket on Chez Scheme, and it has been almost six ...
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Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?
Lessons learned from mixins, render props, HOCs, and classes.
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Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests
Update: This post received quite a lot of healthy discussion on Hacker News. You can follow that conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119570
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WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ...
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
Before I started doing research, I saw SAT solvers as academically interesting but without practical uses ouside of other academic applications. I've since then changed my mind, and I want to change yours, because modern SAT solvers are neat, fast and almost criminally underused by the industry.
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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no…
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
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Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th, 2018
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.