1351
Go’s Version Control History
Every once in a while someone notices the first commit in the Go repo is dated 1972:
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,551 posts.
1352
Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
The human genome project was inaugurated at the beginning of the decade as an ambitious international effort to determine the complete DNA sequence of human beings and several experimental animals. The justification for this undertaking is both scientific and medical. By understanding the genetic makeup of an organism…
1353
What does it mean to listen on a port?
This story explores some concepts in computer networking, inspired by Michael Nielsen’s idea of discovery fiction . Code samples can also be found in this repo . Excerpts use openbsd-flavoured netcat on Debian Linux; behviour and IPv6 support may vary by version.
1354
My approach to automatic musical composition
In this blog, I will introduce my approach to automatic musical composition, including the theory, the algorithm, and a Python package implementation ch0p1n .
1355
1356
Mutt 2.2.0
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
1357
Forbidden Emacs Lisp Knowledge: Block Comments
Note : The \037 sequence appearing in the code snippets is one character, escaped for readability.
1358
The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
1359
Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
The top programs that have saved HN 100+ hours.
1360
Sustainability with Rust
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
1361
Prefix Sum with SIMD
In other words, the $k$-th element of the output sequence is the sum of the first $k$ elements of the input sequence.
1362
Building an Intelligent Emacs
This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers. Edit: Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).
1363
A new programming language for high-performance computers
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed a new programming language specifically for high-performance computing. With the prototype, says PhD student Amanda Liu, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
1364
Running C unit tests with Pytest
In this post I will describe my approach to C unit testing using pytest. In particular, we get to see how to gracefully handle SIGSEGVs and prevent them from stopping the test runner abruptly. Furthermore, we shall try to write tests in a Pythonic way.
1365
Testing Distributed Systems
Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
1366
1367
1368
1369
Racket 8.4
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...
1370
OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
1371
Single dependency stacks
Life with Postgres only.
1372
I decided to build a nine-bit computer
The first nerdy dispatch from my Quixotic Hardware Project, QIXOTE-1
1373
Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex?
A deep dive into the futex system call and how it is used to process synchronization functions.
1374
How UTF-8 Works
If you're anything like me, you love emojis! Emojis appear like an image on the screen, but they aren't an image like a PNG or JPEG. What do emojis look like to computers? 

0x820x820x980...
1375
I would like a job writing Haskell
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
1376
CR+LF Has a Long History
The ASR33, like most teletypes of the era, works at a fixed rate. It does 10 characters per second. It is 110 Baud, using 1 start, 8 data (i...
1377
Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch
I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it’s not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don’t let me do. Ultimately, what you can with a programming l...
1378
Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
Another code golfing adventure.
1379
Read “Data and Reality”
Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent I've got this working theory that you can...
1380
Vue 3 as the New Default
The official blog for the Vue.js project