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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms. Microsoft also released Visual Studio Community 2013, a new free edition of Visual…
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Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio
Like any artistic medium, games are emotional experiences filled with joy, sadness, frustration, and more. Special moments can bring tears, cause shouting, or even screams. But imagine during one of those emotional highs if the audio simply died, and the game continued onward in a deafening silence before eventually…
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How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework
Airport Parking Shop took on the challenge of building an app in 2 weeks with Ionic Framework. Find out more about how we did it!
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Half a decade with Go
Happy 5th birthday, Go!
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Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States today, arguing on behalf of 77 computer scientists that the justices should review a disastrous appellate court decision finding that application programming interfaces (APIs) are...
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Libtls – New TLS API from LibreSSL
tls_init , tls_config_new , tls_config_free , tls_config_error — initialize TLS client and server API
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we've built ...
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Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
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Building C Projects
C is a compiled language, and as such, C programs need to be converted to executables in order to use them. Typically, programmers do this with some sort of build system, rather than running the necessary commands manually, because the compilation process for a large project tends to be quite complex.
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PyPy IO improvements
Hello everyone! We've wrapped up the Warsaw sprint, so I would like to describe some branches which have been recently merged and which i...
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IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released
Discover IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 with JetBrains Air, Java and Kotlin for Cursor and VS Code, the Hibernate debugger, Git worktrees, cross-database queries, DuckDB, any LSP server, a libghostty terminal, and Java 28.
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Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)
I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads when they make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figured out how to live and write software (for very happy business owners) even though my estimates are just as brutally unreliable as ever.
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Please grow your buffers exponentially
If you record every heap allocation and re-allocation done by Firefox you find some interesting things. In particular, you find some sub-optimal buffer growth strategies that cause a lot of heap churn.
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Massive: The asm.js Benchmark
asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize. Most often it is generated by a compiler, such as Emscripten, from C or C++ code. The result ...
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Porting rr to x86-64
(TL;DR: rr from git can record and replay 64-bit programs. Try it for yourself !)
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Introducing SIMD.js
SIMD stands for Single Instruction Multiple Data, and is the name for performing operations on multiple data elements together. For example, a SIMD add instruction can add multiple values, in ...
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Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
Cloud printing for retail and food and beverage operations.
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The Case of the Modified Binaries
SUMMARY After creating and using a new exitmap module, I found downloaded binaries being patched through a Tor exit node in Russia. Tor is a wonderful tool for protecting the identity of journalists, their sources, and even regular users around the world; however, anonymity does
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Xerox Alto Source Code
Depending on your age, your first computer might have been an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80, an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or another of the early personal computers. If you missed these early machines the first time around, perhaps you have seen them in the Personal Computer section of the Revolution exhibit at the…