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The limited value of a computer science education
I started programming at the age of 10 on my TI-82 graphing calculator. I loved video games as ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,835 posts.
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Null Values in SQL Queries
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Electron 3.0.0
The Electron team is excited to announce that the first stable release of Electron 3 is now
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
Trust me, there's a reason for this
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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Nix and NixOS, my pain points
Posts and writings by Rémy Grünblatt 🍃
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An LLM does not need to understand MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has became the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief your LLM does not need to understand MCP.
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Two kinds of vibe coding
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
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On Hacking
In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker".
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Error Stacking in Rust
How to handle and report errors effectively in Rust applications is a common question. This blog shares our experience organizing variant types of Error in a complex system like GreptimeDB, from how an error is defined to how to log the error or present it to end-users. Such a system is composed of multiple components…
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The unbearable slowness of AI coding
I’ve been coding entirely with Claude Code for the past two months. At first it was exhilarating. I was speeding through tasks. I was committing like mad.
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A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
And it was so avoidable! The bug was from a piece of dead code, left over from the previous Ariane 4 mission a decade before.
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Using Makefile(s) for Go
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
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Sustainability with Rust
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
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Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
The .NET team has been working on a new experiment called async2, which is a new implementation of the async/await pattern that is designed to be more efficient and more flexible than the current implementation. It started with green threads and ended with an experiment that moves async and await to the runtime. This…
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Using Google’s code history to write more code
Posted by Petros Maniatis and Daniel Tarlow, Research Scientists, Google Software isn’t created in one dramatic step. It improves bit by bit, one l...
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Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong
If you have arrived here, you should know this is an early draft containing mostly unedited stream-of-consciousness crap because I have found it difficult to structure this topic. My latest attempt is to split this information up into multiple separate articles.
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Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
This was a fun project for a couple of days, but I will probably shelve it for now so I can continue what I was already working on before. Read on to follow along with my journey. Spoilers: I didn’t get very far.
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Dependent Haskell
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Bringing a dynamic environment to C: My linker project
I'm writing a linker. It's an unusual linker. It's focus is not on producing executable files. Instead, its focus is to facilitate rapid iteration on a program without having to re-link or re-open it after making changes. It is hot-loading of code at an object-file granularity.
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Fearless Security: Memory Safety
Memory safety violations can cause programs to crash unexpectedly and can be exploited to alter intended behavior--languages can manage this multiple ways