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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,825 posts.
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A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
I work in product growth helping people discover and use great software, currently at SurveyMonkey. In the past I've done it at Prismatic (acq. by LinkedIn), Clara Lending (acq. by Sofi), Right Side Up, Hubstaff. I've also enjoyed consulting with interesting companies like DoorDash, Empower, StitchFix, Calm, Dell…
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An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence
Last week, while working on new features for our product, I had to find a quick and efficient way to extract the main topics/objects from a sentence. Since I’m using Python, I initially thoug…
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch onlin...
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JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite
Faster JSON handling in a relational database.
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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel
We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...
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Codebase Refactoring with Go
Go should add the ability to create alternate equivalent names for types, in order to enable gradual code repair during codebase refactoring. This article explains the need for that ability and the implications of not having it for today’s large Go codebases. This article also examines some potential solutions…
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How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025
How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire
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A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp
a personal blog
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Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms
We published the triangulator of our map engine as earstrip, an ISC-licensed C++ and WebAssembly library. How it came to be: the ear clipper rebuilt one idea at a time and timed on 3.7 million polygons of real map data.
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Parallel Seam Carving
Seam carving is a technique for content-aware resizing, which changes the size of an image while attempting to preserve the interesting content of the image. The basic idea behind the technique is to remove low-energy seams: paths of pixels that are similar to their surroundings. A removed seam can be either vertical…
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Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox for a while. It has proven to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues.
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Scala isn't fun anymore
I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.
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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
Somehow xor became the most popular version.
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C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Everything old is new again: memory optimization
At this point in history, AI sociopaths have purchased all the world's RAM in order to run their copyright infringement factories at full bl...
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Please grow your buffers exponentially
If you record every heap allocation and re-allocation done by Firefox you find some interesting things. In particular, you find some sub-optimal buffer growth strategies that cause a lot of heap churn.
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Rethinking Visual Programming with Go
This is a blog version of the talk I gave at GopherCon Europe 2019 (Canary Islands Edition) , where I shared my thoughts on why Visual Programming Languages have failed and revealed for the first time my experiment on visualizing Go code.
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Next-generation AI models
We've put together an index of testing terms and articles, covering many of the basics of testing and definitions for common searches.
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C++ containers that save memory and time
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Introducing Custom Elements
A little over a year ago, we announced the introduction of slot-based shadow DOM API, a lightweight mechanism to encapsulate a DOM tree by allowing the creation of a parallel DOM tree on an element called a “shadow tree” that replaces the rendering of the element without modifying the regular DOM tree.
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Questions to ask in interviews
As my RC batch draws to a close, I’m interviewing once again. In the vein of Julia Evans’ great blog post, “Questions I’m asking in interviews” , here’s a set of questions to ask your recruiter, interviewers, and/or prospective manager.
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Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance optimization, as it gives you fine-grained…
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Knuth and the Unix Way
Dr. Drang (And now it's all this)2011231 points97 commentscited by 30History & Retro Computing details
Another great post