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100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,841 posts.
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You can't copy code with memcpy
There's more to code than just instructions.
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How to find a remote job
Join DeeKit's global community of digital nomads. Find friends, work opportunities, and adventure anywhere in the world.
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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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BMW are complying with the GPL
The good news follow-up rarely gets as much attention as the original bad-news story. Earlier this month I accidentally kicked off a minor kerfuffle over whether BMW was respecting the GPL. Their i3 car contains a huge amount of Open Source Software and there was some confusion as to BMW's compliance with the licence…
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote…
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Blender 3.2
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman's talk on the EmacsConf , it was titled "What I'd like to see in Emacs". One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was "memorable names", "I think every …
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Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. […]
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi
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Software 2.0 (2017)
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they…
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through…
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OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
OpenAI and Apple announce partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple experiences.
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
The story of an unusual career transition.
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Arm AGI CPU
Arm introduces the Arm AGI CPU to power agentic AI infrastructure with rack-scale performance, efficiency and scalable compute for next-generation data centers.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Personal website of Cody Ho
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Firefox 76
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.