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Java is still available at zero-cost
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
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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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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
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C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use
With this post I will concentrate on the here and now: how to use C’s future lifesaving defer feature with existing tools and compilers.
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Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack
Java is HubSpot's language of choice. Read how it's helping the company scale its product, tech stack, and team.
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No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
Golang online books, articles, tools, etc.
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Ban 1+N in Django
I always thought of 1+N as a thing that you just keep in your head, catch on code reviews or via performance regressions. This worked well for a long …
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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?
I care about Bun. I have been rooting for it since the initial release in 2022. I switched all my development from Node to Bun. I used it in the development of the Nue framework and now with my new project Hertta .
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CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
There's a ton of interest these days in 'CSS in JS'. The premise is simple: CSS operates in a global namespace, which can result in undesirable side effects, spaghetti code, and extremely difficult to maintain codebases. JavaScript used to do this, and we fixed it by encapsulating everything in modules and using tools…
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New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1
There are many improvements and new web platform features in WebKit that are now available with the release of Safari 12.1, included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2.
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Photon Micro GUI
Update: Renamed the library to avoid the name Clash with QNX Photon.Let me tell you a bit about Elements... From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming, I thought to myself, devoid of any do
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A Million Lines of Bad Code
This is the story of some bad code I wrote.
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Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
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The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)
I am responsible for the reliability of the firmware updates on our devices and this work never gets boring. The thing about firmware updates is that by definition, every bug is caused by the updater because before installing the affected version, the bug was not present. You could say that updates are the cause and…
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The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code
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Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
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What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011)
If you are dealing with text in a computer, you need to know about encodings. Period. Yes, even if you are just sending emails. Even if you are just receiving emails. You don't need to understand every last detail, but you must at least know what this whole "encoding" thing is about. And the good news first: while the…
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Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes
Perl is a dynamic, dynamically-typed, high-level, scripting (interpreted) language most comparable with PHP and Python. Perl's syntax owes a lot to ancient shell scripting tools, and it is famed for its overuse of confusing symbols, the majority of which are impossible to Google ...
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Elixir at Ramp
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team
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Improving how we deploy GitHub
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
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Announcing TypeScript 3.9
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 3.9! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
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Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
Today, we are very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve, enabling interaction with traditional Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR.
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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
We analyzed 1.8 million Hacker News headlines spanning February 2007 to June 2025 to examine database engine popularity trends. Using camelAI connected to a ClickHouse database, we uncovered which databases the HN...
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Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
A brief description of our task scheduling system
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C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to varying extents, and a lot of this isn't for extra features, but just to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and…