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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 381 posts.
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A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming
The x86 instruction set architecture is at the heart of CPU s that power our home computers and remote servers for over two decades. Being able to read and write code in low-level assembly language is a powerful skill to have. It enables you to write faster code, use machine features unavailable in C, and…
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A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)
Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. I...
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Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
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PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support
"Python 2.x versus Python 3.x": this is by now an old question. In the eyes of some people Python 2 is here to stay, and in the eyes of oth...
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Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Seven years of Go
Happy 7th birthday, Go!
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The Zen of Erlang
This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak.
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Some thoughts on asynchronous Python API design in a post-async/await world
I've recently been exploring the exciting new world of asynchronous I/O libraries in Python 3 – specifically asyncio and curio . These two libraries make some different design choices. This is an essay that I wrote to try to explain to myself what those differences are and why I think they matter, and distill some…
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Rewrite Everything in Rust
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
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The Path to Rust
About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…
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Go fonts
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
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Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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PyPy 5.0 Released
PyPy 5.0 We have released PyPy 5.0, about three months after PyPy 4.0.1. We encourage all users of PyPy to update to this version. You ...
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Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture
The onion architecture may be the future of large-scale FP
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I Love Go; I Hate Go
I liked Go right away. It was close enough to C and Java to be instantly familiar, the examples and tutorials were straightforward, and I was quickly writing…
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Why is Python slow
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed…
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Haskell in the Datacentre
Bluesky: @simonmar.bsky.social Github: simonmar Email: marlowsd@gmail.com LinkedIn: Simon Marlow
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