871
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,013 posts.
872
Overkilling the 8-queens Problem
Last night, a fellow Hacker Schooler challenged me to a running-time contest on the classic eight queens puzzle. Naturally, I pulled up my trusty …
873
874
Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]
Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language, with overview and demonstrations, in a video showing the power of this symbolic programming language.
875
Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
Visit the post for more.
876
Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source
In 2007 ScottGu's team announced they were releasing the .NET Framework source ...
877
Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
878
879
880
Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
Interface Vision is a group working on a software development platform that can be used without coding.
881
Results of the SQL Performance Quiz
SQL indexing: 60% don’t know how to get it right
882
Making ActiveRecord 2x faster
TL;DR: AdequateRecord is a set of patches that adds cache stuff to make ActiveRecord 2x faster
883
884
885
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?
How-to articles about designing safe, reliable, and secure embedded systems.
886
887
Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
Download the extension now from the Visual Studio Gallery Update: For the folks who have extensions that replace the Visual Studio IntelliSense
888
As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes
Fitting as much Stack Overflow as possible into 4096 bytes
889
No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline
Broccoli is an asset pipeline for building JS+CSS apps running in the browser. Read about the architecture, and how it compares to other build tools.
890
891
892
A Case for Upserts
Some thoughts on why upserts are necessary to write reliable web applications.
893
894
895
Cryptic Crossword: Amateur Crypto and Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering is a special subgenre of computer programming. It's about the closest that I as a programmer get to being a scientist. Gather data, formulate a hypothesis, test, refine, repeat: reverse engineering is basically applying the scientific method to a very, very small knowledge domain. If you've never…
896
897
OCaml: what you gain
Way back in June, in Replacing Python: second round, I wrote: The big surprise for me in these tests was how little you lose going from Python to …
898
React, JSX, and CoffeeScript
Tips on using React without JSX.
899
Bitcoin transaction malleability: looking at the bytes
"Malleability" of Bitcoin transactions has recently become a major issue. This article looks at how transactions are modified, at the byte...
900