Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,835 posts.
It seems these days like programming with dependent types in Haskell (and its advantages) is moving slowly but steadily to the mainstream of Haskell programming. In the current state of Haskell education, dependent types are often considered topics for “advanced” Haskell users. However, I can foresee a day where the…
Over the last six months, a powerful new neural network playbook has come together for Natural Language Processing. The new approach can be summarised as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode, attend, predict. This post explains the components of this new approach, and shows how they're put together in two recent…
A while ago, I built a system-tray application in Rust to notify me of new e-mail called buzz. It was working fine, but every now and again, it would fail to connect to the mail server on boot if it started before my network connection was up. Sounds easy enough to fix, so I just added a loop around my connect (even…
I performed a brute-force attack on the password of an encrypted PDF and a brute-force attack on the key of (another) encrypted PDF, both PDFs are part of a challenge published by John August. The …
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
A blog about game engines, graphics, C++, and more.
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog
Z80 Explorer is a Z80 netlist-level simulator capable of running Z80 machine code and also an educational tool with features that help reverse engineer and understand this chip better.
JavaScript game programming library that helps you make games fast and fun
My last article had tips for for arena allocation . This next article demonstrates a technique for building bespoke hash maps that compose nicely with arena allocation. In addition, they’re fast, simple, and automatically scale to any problem that could reasonably be solved with an in-memory hash map. To avoid…
Let's dissect a PHP spam script and find out how spammers send spam messages and how they have tried to obfuscate the actual code they use.
Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby —
Only dead fish go with the flow. As I promised in the last article, today we’re finally going to do a deep dive into the topic of scopes. This is what we’re going to learn today: We’re going to learn about scopes, why they are useful, and …
In part four of this series we looked at some key trade-offs involved with a distributed log implementation and discussed a few lessons learned while building NATS Streaming. In this fifth and final installment, we’ll conclude by outlining the design for a new log-based system that draws from the previous entries in…
My Rustic Ramblings
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
In expressive languages, developers generally need to use fewer temporary variables.This means that in a typical piece of code there are fewer names defined,...
The web is amazing and amazingly complex
programming, language design, and human factors
I’ve edited a couple of the JSON RFCs, and am working on the design of a fairly complex DSL, so I think I can claim to have dug deeper in the JSON mines than most. We can easily agree on what’s wrong with JSON, and I can’t help wondering if it’d be worth fixing it.
My twitter feed has recently been filled with discussions about the following program #include <cstdlib> typedef int (*Function)(); s...
Antiquated, clunky, and unsafe. Though beloved to some, C is a language that many choose to hate. The mass opinion is indeed so negative it’s hard to believe that anybody would program anything in C. Yet they do. In fact a lot of things, even new things, are programmed in C. The standard was recently […]
