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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Migrating Pinterest profiles to React
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Announcing RStudio v1.0
Today we’re very pleased to announce the availability of RStudio Version 1.0! Version 1.0 is our 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011 (see the full release history below), and our biggest ever! Highlights include:
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Service discovery at Stripe
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
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WebAssembly Browser Preview
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
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JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
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A Quantum Leap for the Web
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
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Git from the inside out
This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects.
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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
We're very proud to open-source Next.js, a small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps.
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Why we chose Vue.js
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
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.NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”
This post was co-authored by David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead in .NET Team and Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager in .NET Team. Couple of weeks back, we dedicated a blog post introducing .NET Standard 2.0, which will significantly extend your ability to share code by unifying .NET APIs across all…
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SpaCy v1.0: Deep Learning with custom pipelines and Keras
I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 release of spaCy, the fastest NLP library in the world. By far the best part of the 1.0 release is a new system for integrating custom models into spaCy. This post introduces you to the changes, and shows you how to use the new custom pipeline functionality to add a Keras-powered LSTM…
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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
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Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor
We’ve heard from a lot of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users that they like to edit code and configuration files without leaving their browser. We're now making that easier by offering a new feature: an integrated code editor.
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Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Postgres Count Performance
Everybody counts, but not always quickly. This post looks into how the PostgreSQL database optimizes counting. In Postgres, there are ways to count orders of magnitude faster. We’ll look at exact counts (distinct counts) as well as estimated counts, using approximation algorithms such as HyperLogLog (HLL) in Postgres.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler
Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been working on improving that. This post covers how I’ve done this, and should be of interest to anybody else who wants…
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Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Static types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …