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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,833 posts.
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Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
Lately I’ve heard a lot of stories of AI accidentally deleting entire codebases or wiping production databases . But in my case it was the other way around. I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.
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Localisation is too hard for Gmail
/ləʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The ability to adjust a user-interface to the user's local language or dialect Because I live in the UK, I speak en_GB (English, Great Britain) rather than en_US (English, Simplified United States). Mostly, all dialects of English are mutually intelligible. Sure, the Brits love the letter U and…
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Single binary executable packages
In support of software packages that come in the form of a single binary executable (statically linked or portable), that one can just copy anywhere in `${PATH}` and execute, without needing `sudo`, or downloading half the distribution's packages as dependencies.
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Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
We software developers have historically used the terms “frontend” and “backend” to describe work on client-side (e.g., browser) and server-side applications, respectively. This conceptual split has evolved into the creation of specialized developer roles for each, which is still the norm throughout the industry. In…
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You Don't Need Anubis
don't use anubis just to block llm scrapers
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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?
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My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0
v1.2 - added comments from HN v1.3 - added “What does fits mean ?” v1.4 - added the conclusion When something very basic goes wrong, I have this hierarchy of potential culprits: the compiler buggy hardware OS vendor last and least me, because I don’t make mistakes :) So what...
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Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
This summer I’ve been interning at Pusher , and have been writing a lot of Go. It’s been a bit of a change coming from a Haskell background, so I decided to write up my thoughts now, at the end.
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Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles
I’m using Golang for a while. During the development, I was used to repeatedly execute “go build”,“go test” manually. This was a bad habit on which I resign. It is not so painful if you use simple command without any args. But in case of more complex tasks, naturally, it is going to be a…
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Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
The Guardian is one of my favorite news sources. I’m a subscriber (support news organizations!) and I read it daily. But it is not immune to errors, as this headline shows:68 °F above average is a …
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We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)
We build our own (simple) cron-replacement and we are extremely happy with it.
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The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
The functional programming analog of an object-oriented design pattern
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Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks
Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused by add-ons, including Firebug. For many users with add-ons installed this will significantly reduce Firefox’s memory consumption, without requiring upgrades to those add-ons.
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SQL reserved words – An empirical list
These words cause problems as table or column name
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CTEs as lookup tables
How to use a CTE instead of complicated CASE expressions
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The secret life of NaN
The floating point standard defines a special value called Not-a-Number (NaN) which is used to represent, well, values that aren’t numbers. Double precision ...
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Java Trap, 2010 Edition
As a member of the Apache Software Foundation , my views on open source tend to gravitate towards more liberal licenses, like the Apache License (v2.0) , BSD, or MIT licenses. I strongly believe in enabling companies to take open source software and do whatever they wish to do with it, placing as little restrictions…
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement.
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