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Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions
Compiling Lisp let expressions to x86-64
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Zig 0.6.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software. With special thanks to many generous sponsors , the Zig project is financially sustainable and currently supports one full-time developer . Let's reboot systems programming.
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Our Immune System
(On this page in Dutch I post daily bits of realistic but hopeful Corona news. Here is a somehat rough translation of an article on our immune system I posted there, because I think it might also be useful for people that don’t speak Dutch). Wednesday, April 1st COVID-19 can only live thanks to us. Viruses cannot…
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Julia GPU
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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A Light Box in Heavy Times
My son is nearing his second birthday, which makes him nearly two years old. When he was only four months old I decided that I would make him something with buttons. I didn’t have much more of an idea than that, but I ordered one hundred illuminated buttons and started mulling what to do with them. Nothing much…
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Common Causes of Bad Decisions
Italian psychologist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini was once asked why people keep making the same mistakes.
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four
Please try this experiment for me. Try asking this question out loud, in a tone of intellectual interest and engagement: “Are you suggesting that the two have the same effect?”. Now try asking this question out loud, in a tone of hostility and incredulity bordering on sarcasm: “Are you suggesting that the two have the…
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Simple Image Vectorization
This is an example of an image vectorization algorithm. It shows the bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms working together to solve a practical problem
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Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?
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I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs in my code
Look out, honey, ’cause I’m using technologyAin’t got time to make no apologyThe Stooges, “Search and Destroy” For the last year or so, I’ve made a conscious eff…
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American Airlines Bans Wearing Too Much Personal Protection Equipment on Board
It's not just passengers refusing to wear personal protection equipment that's a problem at the airline. It seems another problem is passengers who wear too much. So last week American Airlines sent a memo to its customer care agents on "Prohibited Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)."
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Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)
This is a follow-up post to “Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1” , continuing the journey of exploring Docker on Apple’s new M1 machines.
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Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019. Financial Highlights for…
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Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or shrinking them
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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September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden
According to the state authority Statistics Sweden (SCB) data, september 2020 was the least deadly month per capita ever in Swedish history. So far the year 2020 has been the third least deadly year per capita ever in the country, despite the tragic and global Covid-19 pandemic.Deaths in September 1860 - 2020 in…
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Qt Offering Changes 2020
New low-cost option for small businesses, Qt account requirement for installation and long-term support only for commercial licensees
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The browsers are probably running the TLS show now
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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Was Knuth Really Framed?
Recently, the formal methods specialist Hillel Wayne posted an interesting article discussing whether Donald Knuth was actually framed when Jon Bentley asked him to demonstrate literate programming . (Knuth came up with an 8-page long monolithic listing, whereas in a critique Doug McIlroy provided a six line shell…
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A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex
"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bitcoin...
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A divorce in Italy destroyed my researcher career
Preface:I have worked in the United States and England as a researcher for most of my life, I am Italian and a few years ago I became the father of a beautiful daughter. Unfortunately, for reasons …
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An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
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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Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
The following image is a "sneak peek" at the full implementation and the resultant system:
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Why Dark didn't choose Rust
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
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Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. Collaborate, build and deploy 1000x faster on Netlify.