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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not al…
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Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Channels adopted as an official Django project
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Sept. 9, 2016
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V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.
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How to Write a Spelling Corrector
I figured they, and others, could benefit from an explanation. The full details of an industrial-strength spell corrector are quite complex (you can read a little about it here or here ). But I figured that in the course of a transcontinental plane ride I could write and explain a toy spelling corrector that achieves…
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Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime
Join Illya Gerasymchuk on his new blog as he explores blockchain, DeFi, Zero-Knowledge cryptography, AI, and finance.
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Linux debugging tools you'll love
New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love
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The new and improved Programming Languages Zoo
It is my pleasure to announce the new and improved Programming languages Zoo , a potpourri of miniature but fully functioning programming language implementations. The new zoo has a decent web site, it is now hosted on GitHub , and the source code was cleaned up. Many thanks to Matija Pretnar for all the work.
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The Metaprogrammer
There are some topics which, if posted onto a forum or news site, cause programmers to spew out more blather than all the rest put together. Such topics include:
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How Quaternions encode rotations: derivation and sample code
In the post on matrices in Codea I mentionned that an affine transformation (things like rotation, scaling, translation) ℝ 3 → ℝ 3 could be specified by giving four vectors. In this post I want to examine that a little more closely for the special case of a rotation. That is to say: how can I encode a rotation in ℝ 3…
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How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages
This blog post will maintain the industry best practices for securely generating random data in Ruby, Node.js, Java, etc.
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What typing ^D does on Unix (2009)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Announcing Quill 1.0
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. Completely customize it for any need with its modular architecture and expressive API.
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Booting the Final GameCube Game
Every single GameCube game can at least boot in Dolphin 5.0. Except one. Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its complex way of using the PowerPC Memory Management Unit rendered it unplayable in Dolphin up to this day. But finally as of Dolphin 5.0-540, this challenge has come and gone: Dolphin can finally boot every single…
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Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core
At Stackify we have been doing a lot of work with .NET Core. Find our top suggestions on converting an application from ASP.NET to NET Core.
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Three JavaScript performance fundamentals that make Bluebird fast
Bluebird is a widely used promise library for JavaScript which initially gotnoticed back in 2013 due to it being up to 100 times faster than other
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Qt 5.8 Alpha released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Dolphin Progress Report: August 2016
Dolphin started solely as a GameCube emulator, focused only on the one console. But, when the Wii was released and it was discovered to have hardware almost identical to its older sibling, Dolphin naturally evolved into a GameCube and Wii emulator. All of our readers are probably familiar with this....
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GPU Ray Tracing the Wrong Way
If you’re familiar with my blog, you know I’ve lately taken a fancy to doing abominable things to my Intel GPU’s OpenGL driver.