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Code search is hard
Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Client libraries are better when they have no API?
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model scores worse on aider’s code editing benchmarks than all the previous GPT-4 models. In particular, it seems much more prone to “lazy coding” than the existing GPT-4 Turbo “preview” models.
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Zed Decoded: Async Rust
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio explore how we use async Rust in the Zed code base to ensure perfect cooperation with macOS to always maintain responsiveness and high-performance.
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The UX of UUIDs
Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.
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How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?
Combining prefix search with repeated search, to accommodate multiple styles.
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Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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The lifecycle of a code AI completion
Demystifying code AI: Learn how Cody analyzes context, retrieves references, prompts models, and refines completions behind the scenes.
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Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
Under READ COMMITTED isolation, PostgreSQL can sometimes miss rows when performing UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, or SELECT FOR SHARE statements. This is due to the EvalPlanQual recheck PostgreSQL adds to these statements to prevent lost-update anomalies.
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Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
Learn about static analysis improvements coming in GCC 14 with -fanalyzer, which helps identify issues in C code at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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LiveView Is Best with Svelte
Discover why Phoenix LiveView + Svelte is so fast and productive. Learn our production implementation tips and performance insights.
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Every Dunder Method in Python
An explanation of all of Python's 100+ dunder methods and 50+ dunder attributes, including a summary of each one.
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Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.
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Python Cloudflare Workers
Introducing Cloudflare Workers in Python, now in open beta! We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the runtime to deployment. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post
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The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
In this blog post we announce the open sourcing of the rev.ng decompiler, the start of the UI closed beta, how to try rev.ng and much more!
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Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.
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LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it has stored.
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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write. Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure expression syntax, can significantly enhance code readability.
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Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
I spent the last week looking for a memory leak in Postgres’s WAL Sender process. I spent a few days getting more acquainted with Valgrind and gcc/clang sanitizers, but ultimately got nowhere useful with them. Finally, I stumbled on the memleak program from the bcc tools collection which led me right to the source…
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Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
Claude 3 Opus outperforms all of OpenAI’s models on Aider’s code editing benchmark, making it the best available model for pair programming with AI.
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Designing a Pure Python Web Framework
A deep dive into how Reflex works under the hood—from reactive state management to compilation of Python components into React.
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Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism
With the help of Antithesis, a startup from the founders of FoundationDB, CockroachDB engineers were able to track down and reproduce a most elusive one-in-a-million bug, nearly deterministically!
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Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
We are excited to introduce pgzx, a framework for creating Postgres extensions using the Zig programming language.
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Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
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So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
What is a deterministic hypervisor and why do we need one anyhow?