4261
React is holding me hostage
A love & hate relationship
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,540 posts.
4262
Globally Distributed Elixir over Tailscale
The result of my exploration of Elixir clustering and automating global network discovery and connection over Tailscale.
4263
Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.
4264
No Lodash
The copy-paste library, containing various Lodash replacement functions, a copy-paste framework, and more.
4265
Show HN: NESFab – Programming language for making NES games
NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It's easy to get started with, and has a useful set of libraries for making your first — or hundredth — NES game.
4266
GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?
4267
Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
4268
The Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code , in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For simplicity we’re only going to do part 1…
4269
RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel
Sixteen years ago to the day, I started RailsCasts, a screencast series teaching web development using Ruby on Rails. It began with free weekly episodes…
4270
Reducing code size in librsvg by removing an unnecessary generic struct
Someone mentioned cargo-bloat the other day and it reminded me that I have been wanting to measure the code size for generic functions in librsvg, and see if there are improvements to be made.
4271
4272
Finding Java Thread Leaks with JDK Flight Recorder and a Bit of SQL
The other day at work, we had a situation where we suspected a thread leak in one particular service, i.e. code which continuously starts new threads, without taking care of ever stopping them again. …
4273
The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
First a round of thanks for the many people in industry and government who provided valuable links, background and insights! I could not have done this without your help! If you spot any mistakes, or have suggestions, please do contact me on bert@hubertnet.nl The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal…
4274
4275
Use GNU Emacs
This work by Keith Waclena is copyright 2026 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
4276
4277
All you may need is HTML
Readers occasionally request which static HTML generator is used by fabiensanglard.net , and if they can take the same stylesheet/ fonts to start their own blog. I usually send back the whole 134 lines of gen.php [1] and invite them to copy whatever they need to get started [2] .
4278
Don't let event-driven architecture buzzwords fool you
I see a lot of new terms like Command-Event, Event-Based Compute, etc., presented around Event-Driven Architecture. Let me clear that up because there are no such things…
4279
Effortless Performance Improvements in C++: std:unordered_map
This is the second post in the series about effortless performance improvements in C++. Check the first post to get the full story!
4280
Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
VT220 TrueType font
4281
Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
In this series I'll be documenting my journey learning Nix and this first installment is more of a prequel. A common complaint when learning Nix is that the documentation "is not good", and I think what people mean by that is that the documentation is spread across several sources which may or may not be easy to find…
4282
Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
4283
Bitwise Division
Integer division is expensive. Much more expensive than multiplication. Much, much more expensive than addition. If you’re trying to make some integer operations really fast it’s bad news if you need to do division.
4284
Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
about me
4285
Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (2004)
“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?
4286
“Clean” code, horrible performance
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.
4287
Git branches are named sequences of commits
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
4288
Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
4289
Zig's multi-sequence for loops
Loris Cro's Blog
4290
From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.