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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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Go on Very Small Hardware
How low we can Go and still do something useful? I recently bought this ridiculously cheap board: I bought it for three reasons. First, I have never dealt (as a programmer) with STM32F0 series. Second, the STM32F10x series is getting old. MCUs belonging to the STM32F0 family are just as cheap if not cheaper and has…
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Python Idioms in Rust
I’ve been going through a period of programming language wanderlust over the past couple months. Recently, I’ve been quite interested in Rust. Coming from Python, I’ve found a lot of Rust’s language features to be quite powerful.
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Sl: a mirror version of ls
Ever heard of the Steam Locomotive ? It is supposed to cure your bad habit of mistyping [ ls ] by running an ASCII rendition of a steam locomotive through your terminal.
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React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. A few days ago, we wrote a post about upcoming changes to our legacy lifecycle methods, including gradual migration strategies. In React 16.3.0, we are adding a few new lifecycle methods to assist with that migration. We are also…
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Putting the I back in IDE
Imagine a system for editing and reviewing code where:
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Probabilistic Filters By Example
Probablistic filters are high-speed, space-efficient data structures that support set-membership tests with a one-sided error. These filters can claim that a given entry is definitely not represented in a set of entries, or might be represented in the set. That is, negative responses are conclusive, whereas positive…
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Update on Async Rendering
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. For over a year, the React team has been working to implement asynchronous rendering. Last month during his talk at JSConf Iceland, Dan unveiled some of the exciting new possibilities async rendering unlocks. Now we’d like to share with…
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Learning to write programs that generate images
Through a human’s eyes, the world is much more than just the images reflected in our corneas. For example, when we look at a building and admire the intricacies of its design, we can appreciate the craftsmanship it requires. This ability to interpret objects through the tools that created them gives us a richer…
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Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust
A detailed look at the frameworks, concurrency model, error handling, middleware constructs, and testing strategies of a web service written in Rust.
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Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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V8 release v6.6
V8 v6.6 includes optional catch binding, extended string trimming, several parse/compile/runtime performance improvements, and much more!
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Android Studio 3.1 Stable
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
Proposing official support for package versioning in Go, using Go modules.
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Git log – The good parts
If you’re managing a complex git codebase with multiple developers, then you may well be using a tool like GitHub or BitBucket to delve into the history and figure out branch and merge issues.
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The “Run Less Software” philosophy
We have developed a critical philosophy behind how we build software, and the tech stack we rely on. We call it Run Less Software.
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Guide to Speech Recognition with Python
An in-depth tutorial on speech recognition with Python. Learn which speech recognition library gives the best results and build a full-featured "Guess The Word" game with it.
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100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls
A few thoughts on Rust after a few months of regular use.
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Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion
Deep neural networks are composed of many individual neurons, which combine in complex and counterintuitive ways to solve a wide range of challenging tasks. This complexity grants neural networks their power but also earns them their reputation as confusing and opaque black boxes.
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NCEES discontinuing PE Software Engineering exam
NCEES will discontinue the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Software Engineering exam after the April 2019 exam administration. Since the original offering in 2013, the exam has been administered five times, with a total population of 81 candidates. Only 19 candidates registered for the April 2018…
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Introducing the LineageOS SDK
Your apps, better
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From Rails to Clojure, Then to Java, Then Back to Rails
In the past 6 years I’ve worked on web applications in Rails, Clojure, Java and back to Rails. This is an overview of these past years, the benefits of working with such different tech stacks, and also it’s drawbacks.
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User-defined Order in SQL
Some applications, such as todo lists, need to maintain a user-defined order of items. The challenge is that the order is arbitrary and can change when the user rearranges items: