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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 3,470 posts.
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JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16?
Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.
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Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10
UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well ...
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Rails is omakase (DHH)
There are lots of à la carte software environments in this world. Places where in order to eat, you must first carefully look over the menu of options to order exactly what you want. I want this for my ORM, I want that for my template language, and let's finish it off with this routing library. Of course, you're going…
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OFFSET is bad for skipping previous rows
OFFSET doesn’t deliver stable results and makes the query slow. Key-set pagination does neither.
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Commandos, Infantry, and Police
As I was driving home, I found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book Accidental Empires, by longtime computer journalist Robert X. Cringely. Originally published in 1993, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but it still contains a lot of great insights about the personalities
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Welcome to Gitea
Gitea is a community fork of the popular self hosted Git service Gogs. We're a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development m
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How to Report Bugs Effectively
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A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Implementing a GPT model from scratch in NumPy.
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Npm Audit: broken by design?
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…
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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
You're not alone, jclancy. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn't escape without a bit of help. Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a common joke among developers.
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Structured Outputs in the API
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
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Safari is the new IE
Update: This post represents my views before I joined the Microsoft Edge team, and before I got involved with browsers or web standards in general. I leave it…
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The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.
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Toward Go 2
How we will all work together toward Go 2.
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
Some researchers in France put together a comparison showing lots of ways you could implement realtime collaborative editing (like Google Docs). They implemented lots of algorithms - CRDTs and OT algorithms and stuff. And they benchmarked them all to see how they perform. (Cool!!) Some algorithms worked reasonably…
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of…
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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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Flux is the new WndProc
React, if you’ve somehow missed it, is the new hotness in web programming. The idea is simple: each React component describes its view idempotently, in JavaScript. The view is rendered entirely based on a small amount of state the component keeps internally. Given the same state, a given component will always render…
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