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Claude Is Not a Compiler
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
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Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git
PerezDeRosso2016 Santiago Perez De Rosso and Daniel Jackson: " Purposes, concepts, misfits, and a redesign of git ". Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , 10.1145/2983990.2984018 .
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Too Many Knobs
Xu2015 Tianyin Xu, Long Jin, Xuepeng Fan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, and Rukma Talwadker: " Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software ". Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering …
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Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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Infinite work is less work
The first task of last week's Weekly Challenge was to print the first ten strong and weak primes. A prime p n is "strong" if it's larger than the average of its two neighbouring primes ( i.e. p n > (p n-1 +p n+1 )/2 ). A prime is "weak" if it's smaller than the average of its two neighbours.
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Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase
Databricks shares results from its internal coding benchmark, evaluating coding agents on a multi-million line codebase to optimize engineering cost and performance.
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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar…
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows
We’re pleased to announce today that RethinkDB is now available for Windows . You can download a Developer Preview of our Windows build, which runs natively on Microsoft’s operating system.
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Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM
The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.
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General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust
We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of the Rust language such as performance, reliability, and productivity. The SDK supports modern Rust language features…
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Dolphin Progress May and June 2020
We've got a lot to get through the past two months. Headlining it all is that we're happy to announce support for a new compressed disc format developed specifically for Dolphin: RVZ. This lossless format allows for near top of the line game compression without compromising the integrity of ISOs,…
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Node 5.7.0 (stable) released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Qt WebBrowser 1.0
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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How Postgres is more than a relational database: Extensions
Extensions allow Postgres to be customized and extended in powerful new ways. Here we find a tour of extensions and how they can make Postgres into much more than a relational database
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Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)
Have you ever wanted to write your own compiler? ... yes? ... of course you have! I've always wanted to have a go at writing a compiler, and with the recent release of WebAssembly, I had the perfect excuse to have a go.
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Datalog in JavaScript
Let's build a query engine from scratch. In about 100 lines of Javascript, we'll support joins, indexes, and find our answer for Arnold!
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Love Letter to Clojure
How learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life
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An overview of the Dolphin Emulator development infrastructure
There is a whole chunk of the Dolphin project that most users don't know about and have no interactions with. Most of the blog's articles focus on user visible features: improvements in the emulator core, or accuracy changes that allow non playable games to finally work properly. We seldom talk...
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The New Haxe Target: HashLink in depth, part 1
Find out more about HashLink, the newest Haxe target, a virtual machine used to develop system/server/desktop applications.
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A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
Today's main topic is the "freezing" of the JEP list in JDK 21. In addition to that, however, we will also talk about Nulls in Valhalla. And finally, the obligatory Release Radar.