Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,871 posts.
I am thrilled to announce that the next Community Edition (CE) of the PinePhone will feature Manjaro. For those of you who do not know, Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux operating system designed with user-friendliness in mind. But Manjaro is more than just an operating system, it is also a large and vibrant community of…
DevFactor | Page are used for templating and causing DevFactor to be easily navigable
Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 29
Anthropic have enabled CORS support for their JSON APIs, which means it’s now possible to call the Claude LLMs directly from a user’s browser. This massively significant new feature is …
How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that
Google altered the deal
The personal website of James Belchamber.
Python loses every public benchmark by 21-875x. I took the exact problems people use to dunk on Python and climbed every rung of the optimization ladder -- from CPython version upgrades to Rust. Real numbers, real code, real effort costs.
11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell
In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.
Michael Forzano said he has a good “mental map of the structure of the code,” which allows him to help colleagues and provide unique feedback to his team.
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 11.
Update: There is a nice discussion on Hacker News about this blog post. As a developer I think it is important to stay up to date with new…
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design for testing and have a fast, reliable…
v1.7.13, the latest, and probably the last release of our project…
We are open-sourcing Supabase Edge Runtime allowing you to host your Edge Functions anywhere.
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors.
In late 2015, I finished reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and was very inspired to try to automate something in my life. At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg…
Two fun things happened recently and the proximity of the two made something go click in my head and now I think I understand how bytecode interpreters work.
Function pipelines allow you to analyze data by composing multiple functions in SQL and express complex logic in PostgreSQL in a cleaner way.
TinyKVM can be used to sandbox regular Linux programs or programs with specialized APIs embedded into your servers.
In the Unity for Software Engineers (now updated and available as a book), series, I give an accelerated introduction to game development in Unity.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
When you start Chrome, it attempts to connect to three random domains. I've seen a few theories about why exactly this happens that brush up against the nefarious. The true rationale is incredibly mundane: hopefully this short summary will clear things up.
A data-driven approach to cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple etc.) market analysis and visualization using Python.
Jimmy Koppel's in-depth review of John Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design, with case studies on specs, simple APIs, names, and types.
