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Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
Why self-host Zig?<br> For great justice, of course… and also a few more reasons actually.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,907 posts.
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How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
As I’m getting older I look back on all the things I’ve done as a creative developer, and I see so many cool projects! But I never wrote down any development
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PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More
PyPy 4.0.0 We’re pleased and proud to unleash PyPy 4.0.0, a major update of the PyPy python 2.7.10 compatible interpreter with a Just In ...
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Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task
I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on my frustrations with code optimization…
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What is Silverblue?
You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.
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How to properly plagiarize a website
Dear Kintek, it has come to our attention that your new website is very similar to the Infinum website.
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Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
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Voxel Quest January 2016 Update
I think this is what scientists call "meatspace" pic.twitter.com/IX4TddIi0l
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9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
Solaris 5.11 (virtual: Joyent SmartMachine ) PHP 5.3.6 with PHP - FPM : 4 instances running, 10meg APC cache nginx 0.8.53 Pax 1.0 (my silly self-coded website software… and yes, oops there’s already software with that name ) 120 megs of RAM used Load tested using blitz.io : 9 million+ daily hit capability
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I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
Yesterday I shared a little program called Mark V. Shaney Junior at github.com/susam/mvs . It is a minimal implementation of a Markov text generator inspired by the legendary Mark V. Shaney program from the 1980s. Mark V. Shaney was a synthetic Usenet user that posted messages to various newsgroups using text…
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The WebSocket Handbook
Learn about the core building blocks of the WebSocket technology and discover the benefits of event-driven architectures with WebSockets.
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Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record
I try to avoid making predictions 1 . It's a no-win proposition: if you're right, hindsight bias makes it look like you're pointing out the obvious. And most predictions are wrong. Every once in a while when someone does a review of predictions from pundits, they're almost always wrong at least as much as you'd expect…
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Books for Software Engineers in 2023
9 Must-Read Books for Software Engineers in 2023 — As a software engineer, staying up-to-date with the latest developments and best practices...
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Paul Buchheit on Lessons Learned from Investing in 200 Startups
Jasper Kuria of Capital & Growth [https://capitalandgrowth.org/index.html] interviewed YC Partner Paul Buchheit about his experience as employee #23 at Google and his key investing insights. Jasper : You came up with Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto in 2000. Sixteen years later, do you feel they have stayed true? Paul …
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CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
A couple of months ago, I received a request from a random Internet user to add CSRF protection to my little web framework Microdot, and I thought it was a fantastic idea.When I set off to do this…
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BoringSSL
We recently switched Google's two billion line repository over to BoringSSL , our fork of OpenSSL . This means that BoringSSL is now powering Chromium (on nearly all platforms), Android M and Google's production services. For the first time, the majority of Google's products are sharing a single TLS stack and making…
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MySQL.com compromised via (guess what?) SQL injection
MySQL.com (the official site for the MySQL database) was compromised via (shocking!) blind SQL injection. A post was sent today to the full disclosure list…
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Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting
Godot's visual scripting language, VisualScript, was introduced in Godot 3.0, almost five years ago. Despite our continuous effort, it never gained traction and the path to improve it was never clear. Because of this, for Godot 4.0, we decided to accept that the approach we took from the start was simply not the right…
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A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder
This week I took a crack at writing a branchless UTF-8 decoder: a function that decodes a single UTF-8 code point from a byte stream without any if statements, loops, short-circuit operators, or other sorts of conditional jumps. You can find the source code here along with a test suite and benchmark:
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Intellectual Humility increases tolerance, improves decision-making
“Intellectual humility” has been something of a wallflower among personality traits, receiving far less scholarly attention than such brash qualities as egotism or hostility. Yet this little-studied characteristic may influence people’s decision-making abilities in politics, health and other arenas, says new research…
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OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.50.0 of our open-source engine! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all supported operating systems. This round number release overhaul…
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