Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
Welcome again HN! Dark [https://darklang.com] is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website [https://darklang.com/], our What is Dark [https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/] post, and
Crystal has gone a long way since we started it over five years ago. What was once an experiment to see if it was possible to have a compiled yet Ruby-like language, is now a trending language with over 7,000 GitHub stargazers and almost 1,400 shards. Its popularity has risen considerably in the last few years, and we…
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
Several JavaScript data structures such as Map, Set, WeakSet, and WeakMap use hash tables under the hood. This article explains how V8 v6.3 improves hash table performance.
A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) 05 April 2014 A Simple Macro It...
We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.
Great news from the JetBrains team: today we're announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15!As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more bui
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
The official home of the Python Programming Language
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog
Nathan Froyd recently wrote about how he has been using ThreadSanitizer to find data races in Firefox, and how a number of Firefox developers — particular in the networking and JS GC teams — have been fixing these.
Announcing go.dev, which answers: who else is using Go, what do they use it for, and how can I find useful Go packages?
Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
As of today, NVK is now an officially conformant implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This ...
This article is an attempt to sum up a small number of generic rules that appear to be useful rules of thumb when creating high performing programs. It is structured by first establishing some fundamental causes of performance hits followed by their extensions.
So you’ve bought into this whole RPC thing and want to try it out, but aren’t quite sure about Protocol Buffers. Your existing code encodes your own objects, or perhaps you have code that needs a particular encoding. What to do? Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC…
Dive deep into OCR with Tesseract, including Pytesseract integration, training with custom data, limitations, and comparisons with enterprise solutions.
