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DTrace on Windows
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,817 posts.
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Skip Lists Done Right
Skip lists are a wonderful data structure, but it is hard to get\ right. This blog post presents various techniques to optimize and\ improve the implementation of skip lists.
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Signs that you are a bad programmer
Reasoning about code means being able to follow the execution path (“running the program in your head”) while knowing what the goal of the code is.
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DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL·E images of any size.
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Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
Building a modern front end in Django without reaching for a full-blown JavaScript framework. Choosing the right tools for the job, and bringing them into your project.
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Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
The native web platform has caught up with frontend frameworks and will slowly render them obsolete.
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Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)
Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws.
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Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?
For some reason, recently I have been thinking about Doom. This evening I was wanting to explore some behaviour in an old version of Doom and to do so, I hex-edited the binary and replaced the random number lookup table with static values.
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Dijkstra's in Disguise
You can find a PDF version of this blog post here . A weighted graph is a data structure consisting of some vertices and edges, and each...
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Generics can make your Go code slower
Go Generics are a long-awaited feature added in Go 1.18. This article covers how generics were implemented in Go and some surprising ways they can impact your code.
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4K is for programmers
My name is Brian Hauer and these are my rants about technology, politics, and anything else that irks me.
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How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha
After I wrote most of this blog post the night of October, 5th 2021 I wasn't sure I would post it. After the events of the last 36 hours, I felt I needed to capture my experience on my website where it can only be edited by me. After reading this, I hope you will have a clear set of datapoints from my point of view…
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Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later
Reflecting on our experience of using Elm in production and an evaluation of Elm's distinguishing features
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
This RFD describes futurelock : a type of deadlock where a resource owned by Future A is required for another Future B to proceed, while the Task responsible for both Futures is no longer polling A . Futurelock is a particularly subtle risk in writing asynchronous Rust.
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I'm sorry, but you still have to think
DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other languages , like Elixir and Go.
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Cerebras Code
We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month). Both plans give you access to Qwen3-Coder , the world’s leading open-weight coding model—running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second , with a 131k-token context window …
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jQuery.payment
[DEPRECATED] A general purpose library for building credit card forms, validating inputs and formatting numbers. - stripe-archive/jquery.payment
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Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
Since the early days of automatic computing we have had people that have felt it as a shortcoming that programming required the care and accuracy that is characteristic for the use of any formal symbolism. They blamed the mechanical slave for its strict obedience with which it carried out its given instructions, even…
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Teams is killing my Mac every day
I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum. I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them...
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A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
Proposing official support for package versioning in Go, using Go modules.
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
How to use GNU Parallel to gather stats on long-running flaky tests by running them many times and capturing their results.
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Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
A breakdown of Claude's memory implementation, how it differs from ChatGPT, and what these opposite approaches reveal about each company's philosophy.
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Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
Another code golfing adventure.
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Uncertain<T>
GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.
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React is holding me hostage
A love & hate relationship