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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,817 posts.
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Rules for Autocomplete
Autocompleting text with known values seems like an easy problem to solve, but so so so many UIs get it wrong. I see this frequently enough that, rather than complain about them individually, I though I’d just write down the set of rules they often break.
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Repl.it Multiplayer
Today we're announcing the most-significant evolution of our platform — something we've been building towards for a long time that we're thrilled to share with you. Introducing Multiplayer: code with friends in the same editor, execute programs in the same interpreter, interact with the same terminal, chat in the IDE…
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How a 64k intro is made
The demoscene is about producing cool real time works (as in “runs on your computer”) called demos . Some demos are really small, say 64 kilobytes or less, and these are called intros . The name comes from “crack intros”. So an intro is just a demo that’s small.
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Async Python is not faster
Async Python is slower than "sync" Python under a realistic benchmark. A bigger worry is that async frameworks go a bit wobbly under load.
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Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
Why do I file bug reports with Apple Feedback Assistant ? I plead insanity. Or perhaps addiction. I seesaw between phases of abstinence and falling off the wagon. I’ve even tried organizing a public boycott of Feedback Assistant, with a list of demands to improve the experience for users, but the boycott never caught…
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PHP 8
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
Best practices for code review when you’re the author.
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How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
There's this rather nifty feature of modern web browsers (such as Firefox or Chrome ) where the browser will automatically warn the user if they happen to navigate to a " malicious " URL:
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A Minimalist Guide to SQLite
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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How to build a coding agent
It's not that hard to build a coding agent. 300 lines of code running in a loop with LLM tokens. You just keep throwing tokens at the loop, and then you've got yourself an agent.
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You can use C-Reduce for any language
C-Reduce is a tool by Regehr and friends for minimizing C compiler bug reproducers. Imagine if you had a 10,000 line long C file that triggered a Clang bug. You don’t want to send a massive blob to the compiler developers because that’s unhelpful, but you also don’t want to cut it down to size by hand. The good news…
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Polars 2.0
The release Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine, out-of-core and first class blazingly fast SQL support
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Why Go and Not Rust?
What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
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Svelte 5: Runes
Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
A simple toolchain that Koding Kitty uses for building its web.
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
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Fast Software, the Best Software
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
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Learning to program is getting harder
I have written several books that use Python to explain topics like Bayesian Statistics and Digital Signal Processing. Along with the books...
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Please stop recommending Gitflow
Git-flow is a branching and merging methodology popularized by this blog post, entitled “A Successful Git branching model”. In the last ten years, countless teams have been snookered by…
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GPT-5 for Developers
Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Static types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
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Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews
Probably the first in a multi-part series on DP.
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Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
We successfully deployed ThreadSanitizer in the Firefox project to eliminate data races in our remaining C/C++ components.