Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,830 posts.
Array notation in C is a lie! Sorry, dear reader*, but I cannot participate in this conspiracy any longer. You have been lied to, manipulated and coerced into thinking arrays are a construct of the C language. I feel it is my solemn duty to blow the whistle on this charade and expose the dirty secrets of C’s so-called…
I recently worked on two different C projects, and I wanted to structure them in a way that would make them easy to maintain and understand. I also wanted to make sure that the projects were easy to build and test. In this post, I will share my experience and the best practices I found for structuring C projects.
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
The article discusses how Kotlin can create internal languages and how developers can use this feature to write powerful domain-specific languages for manipulating untyped data structures in a typed manner.
In this article, I share a beginner friendly guide to learning the basics of embedded systems and how they work. I talk about micontrollers, electronics, and software. I also share my motivation for working on embedded systems.
Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.
Programming language memory models answer the question of what behaviors parallel programs can rely on to share memory between their threads. For example, consider this program in a C-like language, where both x and done start out zeroed.
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly" here.
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Nov. 22, 2021
Over the weekend, I was working on a personal Rust project when I ran into an excessive memory usage problem. After an evening of trial and error, I found a workaround to fix the memory usage, but I still didn’t understand how the issue was even possible, so I then spent another evening digging through the source code…
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects wherever I could.
People keep saying that a one line source code change should take one second to be “effective”. “Effective” meaning that you get some form…
Recently I’ve been working on a pretty big rust project and to my surprise Icouldn’t get tests to work properly.
Rob Palmer shares some of the insights & lessons learned during Bloomberg Engineering's journey to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language.
Point-free programming (or point-less programming, for the more cynically inclined) is a paradigm that advocates the formulation of programs by means of function composition. In the point-free styl…
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores – Lozi et al. 2016 This is the first in a series of papers from EuroSys 2016. There are three strands here: first of all, there’s some grea…
This page summarizes the changes between official stable releases of Go. The change log has the full details.
Article based on my talk about Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
Chrome 113 is rolling out now! WebGPU is here, it allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web, devtools can now override network response headers, First Party Sets, part of the Privacy Sandbox, that allows organizations to declare related sites is starting to roll out, and there's…
posted by Matthew Flatt With the upcoming version 8.0 release, Racket on Chez Scheme (Racket CS) will become the default implementation of Racket. This report discusses the implications of that change, continuing a series that was originally about Racket...
Let's start with the punchline. Your bash scripts will be more robust, reliable and maintainable if you start them like this:
We are very proud to release django CMS 3.2 with a smarter, fresher and cleaner user interface, including huge steps towards full touch-screen support. We've also made it faster and found other ways to optimise its performance. All in all, we think that version 3.2 is the most exciting release yet of django CMS.
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.
Twenty years... a significant chunk of a human's adult life; while so many things in my life have changed since May 2003, the blog has remained a constant companion. This milestone inspired me to do some archaeology using the amazing Wayback Machine . It didn't have the very first post, but I dug up one from just a…
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