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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #1/3
People occasionally ask why LLVM-compiled code sometimes generates SIGTRAP signals when the optimizer is turned on. After digging in, they find that Clang generated a "ud2" instruction (assuming X86 code) - the same as is generated by __builtin_trap().
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The State of jQuery 2013
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Improved wikis with more markup options
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby
Run AI models locally in Ruby! 💻 Use Ollama to download & run open-source models like Mistral. Integrate them into your Ruby apps using HTTP requests. Great for data security & privacy.
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React-flow: a library to create interactive node-based graphs
We just open sourced "React Flow" : A library for rendering interactive node-based graphs with a smooth panning and zooming behaviour and…
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Verified cryptography for Firefox 57
Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very ...
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Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0
LLVM has two new register allocators: Basic and Greedy. When LLVM 3.0 is released, the default optimizing register allocator will no longer be linear scan, but the new greedy register allocator.
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Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView
Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch squeaks, ours has manifested in ways rather more grim: inexplicably failing to render content, reloading during common operations, and error screens that aren’t actionable. The only silver lining has been…
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How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud. We have partnered…
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Porting to GCC 14: C language issues
The GCC 14 release series differs from previous GCC releases in a number of ways . Some of these are a result of bug fixing, and some old behaviors have been intentionally changed to support new standards, or relaxed in standards-conforming ways to facilitate compilation or run-time performance.
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Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006)
## IntroductionThis is a small Ruby tutorial that should take no more than 20 minutesto complete. It makes the assumption that you already have Ruby installe...
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A new approach to text rendering
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
On November 4th, the HHVM team went on a 3-week performance and parity lockdown. The lockdown officially ended on November 22nd. Overall, this lockdown was a...
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Firefox, Heal Thyself
This week's release of Firefox includes the beginning of a pretty cool feature. The Firefox Health Report is a new system we've built to log basic health information about your ...
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Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
From the Zed Blog: Delta is now in public beta. Replacing pull requests is our first step toward replacing GitHub.
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Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
One recent development is the ability to compile Java programs into self-contained native binaries. This provides more convenient single-file distributions, faster startup time, and lower memory footprint, at a cost of slower creation time and limitations around reflection and dynamic classloading. This article…
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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
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Clojure: Transducers
Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources, they can be used in many different…
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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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