Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided…
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework in general that we’ve been working on.
React Hooks can be frustrating despite their popularity and widespread use. Learn about some of the drawbacks to using React Hooks.
Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception. HTTP QUERY is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request body. It's still...
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.
An analysis of the results from the 2019 Go Developer Survey.
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my annual advent season update, this time with a focus on…
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
An exhaustive hands-on guide for dealing with N+1 problem in database-backed Ruby or Rails applications that use Active Record and serve the GraphQL APIs
I have been collecting random software engineering research ideas from friends and colleagues for more than a decade. These are the questions I’ve been asked since I started taking notes ten years ago. I apologize for not keeping track of who wanted to know, but if you’re working on any of these, please get in touch…
Mono has historically chosen to use the highest possible precision for all floating point operations. This means that both 64-bit math and 32-bit math were done with the highest precision available.
Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorous Toolkit makes this possible by making the creation…
The newly-released GraalVM changes the status quo in the realm of JVM-based programming languages. In this instalment we’ll explore its impact on Clojure. We’ll start small, but by the end we’ll compile an entire Ring web application into a self-contained native binary.
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote an enlightening post recently in which he expounds in some detail about the challenges of writing highly concurrent software. If you write software ...
Two years in the making: Electrobun hits v1 with first-class macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu builds, tiny differential updates, and a framework that finally feels built for modern desktop apps.
Join me as I transition from soft to hardware with the SidecarTridge Multi-device. Insights and challenges of creating a ROM cartridge emulator for Atari ST
10 RPS with p95 TTFA under 50 ms on a single H100: how we optimized Qwen3-TTS serving.
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Racket version 7.8 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all of the functionality of Racket BC (the curre...
Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
