Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,421 posts.
It has been about four months since I returned to Zig after being absent for a few years. In this time, I have written some software in Zig and reengaged with the community, online and in person. I decided to share some of that experience, including what I have liked about Zig so far and what I haven't. I'll include…
How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
The git flag I assumed was an LLM hallucination
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
You all know me, I love exploring new memory safety approaches and blending them together in weird ways.
Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
Forking pg_query.rs to replace Protobuf with bindgen-generated direct C-to-Rust struct mappings, yielding 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing in PgDog.
There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse.
Everyone knows Wasm is a stack machine. Wikipedia says so, the official Wasm design specification says so, you get it. I thought so too. That is, until I started writing Wasm code – not compiling for Wasm, but writing the instructions by hand. And I found out that there exists a major difference between Wasm and all…
Model training has grown complex enough to require many specialised stages and teams, and manual coordination between them doesn’t scale. At Aleph Alpha, we’ve built Savanna, a model factory that implements the entire training pipeline in code.
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Two architectures for running agent harnesses, the tradeoffs between them, and how we make skills and memories work when the harness isn't local.
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.22.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
I recently saw an interesting YouTube video by “Physics for the Birds”. The main video is about matrixes, but he used flags to explain some of the operations on matrixes:
That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform.
Software engineer, Warsaw.
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] .
Did you ever wonder why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64?
When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
How Replit turns any web page into a deterministic video by virtualizing time itself, patching key browser audio APIs, and waging war against headless Chrome's quirks.
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Recovering and preserving Crimsonland, the 2003 top-down shooter, through reverse engineering of its original binary.
I built a tiny shell in C to learn what fork, execvp, and dup2 are doing under the hood.
