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Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode
Actually building floating point from scratch!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,423 posts.
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Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue
A while ago I wrote a small file watcher in Go for my own use with an accompanying blog post . I needed a tool that I could just plop in front of the command I was running as part of my iteration loop. I use it for recompiling C files when I modify them,
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Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale
We've launched an experimental Rust library for Tailscale via tsnet. Help test tailscale-rs and shape it with your feedback.
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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
What the **** does that mean?
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My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.
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Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
We develop fast Rust crates and release them fast.
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Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
Rune 1.1 makes Rune free for personal use and adds a perpetual commercial license, a workspace symbol index, first-class Python support, an Emacs editor, and substantial improvements to SSH workspaces.
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Jacobian Conjecture for Baby
An illustrated guide that starts from the basics, explains the Jacobian Conjecture, and follows what happened to it in July 2026.
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HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)
The accepted practice is to not add lazy-loading to images above the fold, especially the LCP image, since doing so can delay their loading until the browser has determined they are definitely in the viewport. One problem though is that "above the fold" depends on screen size: an image can be above the fold on desktop…
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First Shader from Zero in Godot 4
Create your first shader in Godot. Implement texture sampling, shift shader UV coordinates, mask regions, and use noise to generate random shapes that make up a portal.
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How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)
These are questions about C++ Style and Technique that people ask me often. If you have better questions or comments on the answers, feel free to email me (bs at cs dot tamu dot edu). Please remember that I can't spend all of my time improving my homepages.
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Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
You should always change doors when playing Monty Hall
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PHP2Shell by Calif Research
A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities