Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,814 posts.
What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception. I published a paper in JCGT about the technique in the middle of 2017, and my company sold the first license for version 1.0 of the…
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
News about asciinema development and new releases
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.
Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
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pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
Ever since I opened up my Direct Messages and invited everyone to ask me computer graphics related questions on Twitter , I am very often asked the question "How can I get started with graphics programming?". Since I am getting tired of answering this same question over and over again, I will in this post compile a…
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.
Home page and blog of David Zhang (@crispgm), a minimalist programmer, photographer, and lifehacker.
Update: This post represents my views before I joined the Microsoft Edge team, and before I got involved with browsers or web standards in general. I leave it…
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.
Hugo Daniel's site about ideas and software experimentations
In the two years since I’ve posted I want off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride, it’s made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...
The library for web and native user interfaces
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. And wow is it great. But no one seems to do it. Why? Perhaps emoji are too exotic for normie web platforms to handle? Or maybe they are avoided for fear of angering the SEO gods?
I build shaders, renderers, games, and other stuff that's fun to stare at.
How we will all work together toward Go 2.
In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…
We are hearing a lot about what happened at PyCon 2013, but most of what is being passed around tells only a tiny part of what really happened. Here’s how PyCon went for me this year: The Ed…
Maestro is a Unix-like kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust
