Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,419 posts.
Last week I jokingly said that POPL papers must pass an ‘intellectual intimidation’ threshold in order to be accepted. That’s not true of course, but it is the case that programming languages paper…
Now that we’ve wrapped up the Anniversary Event, I wanted to give you all a couple updates.
There's quite a lot of talk these days about Single Page Applications (SPAs) and the terrific user experience they deliver. This is great, and the SPA architecture is probably a good fit for many apps, but I want to point out two reasons why SPAs are harder to develop and maintain than tr
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Nim is a relatively new programming language which allows users to write easy-to-read high-performance code. But if you are reading this Nim tutorial, the chances are that you already know about Nim.
Here's a talk on "Math And Analogies" I did for the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Seattle. What's this? Well, it's a number. Probably written down a…
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
The rust-analyzer Project
On March 1, 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Games, in Austin, Texas, were raided by the U.S. Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The initial news stories simply reported that the Secret Service had raided a suspected ring of hackers. Gradually, the true story emerged.
This is the introduction of a multipart series. It is to give a high level overview without really deeply diving into any individual component.
Covering Qualcomm bootloader’s up to the point of Android being loaded
Article based on my talk about Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
Community momentum builds on the path to release
“Why?” is my favorite question because it illuminates relationships between cause and effect. And when we ask this question more than once we expose even deeper causal relationships. Unfortunately,…
There have been a few efforts at writing an Emacs JIT — the original one , Burton Samograd’s , and also Nick LLoyd’s . So, what else to do except write my own?
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain.
I have in front of me two books that immediately struck me with their similarity: The c Programming Language 1 1 The c Programming Language ; Kernighan & Ritchie; Prentice Hall; 1988. and The awk Programming Language 2 2 The awk Programming Language ; Aho, Kernighan & Weinberger; Addison-Wesley; 1988. Available…
Last summer I began reverse engineering Animal Crossing for the GameCube to explore the possibility of creating mods for the game. I also wanted to document the process to create tutorials for people interested in ROM hacking and reverse engineering. In this post I explore the developer debugging features that are…
Whether you want to look at what your code is doing ‘under-the-hood’ or you’re trying to see what the ‘internals’ of the CLR look like, there is a whole range of tools that can help you out.
Lesser-known but idiomatic pandas features for those already comfortable with Pandas' basic functionality and concepts.
GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish
Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a TODO list. Or at least my inbox is a TODO list and email is the protocol for putting stuff on it. Here’s the problem. It is a s**tty TODO list. Any one of you can put something on my TODO list. And I don’t want that.
We will construct Swift programs that should be impossible to implement, yet somehow are not!
A dark pattern in the design world means something that is purposefully created to mislead users and to get them to perform actions against their own interest.
