Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,828 posts.
GitHub Actions now supports ephemeral (i.e. single job) self-hosted runners and a new workflow_job webhook to make autoscaling your runners easier. After a job is run, ephemeral runners are automatically…
Exactly one month since the previous release, we are happy to give you curl 8.0.0 released on curl's official 25th birthday. This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly…
In September 2023, Safari 17.0 on macOS shipped a small but interesting change to the <select> element.
caveat: tthis is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. If you find this post interesting then you might like my yearly best-of posts .
Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web
Estimating the effort needed to re-implement the Wi-Fi driver
One of my favorite questions to ask people is: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your mind about?
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
We've re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...
XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.
With macOS Mojave, Apple is adding support to bring apps written in UIKit to macOS without the requirement of having to rewrite the UI in AppKit. This is not yet officially supported — this post will explore what we can expect in 2019 and how you can use Marzipan today.
SQLite is really easy to compile
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
It’s tough for an aspiring Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, …
Cursive, the Clojure IDE that understands your code. Advanced structural editing, refactorings, VCS integration and much more, all out of the box.
If you join the CPAN pull request challenge, then at the start of each month in 2015 you'll be emailed a (somewhat) randomly selected CPAN distribution. You'll have one month to submit at least one pull request. You don't have to be an experienced Perl programmer, CPAN author, or githubber. The goal is to help others…
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Discover lesser-known Rails 6 features that stay out of the spotlight but can bring a lot to your current applications.
The blog of Seva Zaikov
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
This December I once again did the Advent of Code , in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For simplicity we’re only going to do part 1…
A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck . A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
Tracing the x86 context switch in Linux throughout time
