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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 483 posts.
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Crystal 0.28.0 Released
Crystal 0.28.0 has been released!
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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Read Couchbase engineering tutorials, product news, and customer stories on AI agents, Capella, vector search, mobile sync, and real-time analytics.
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A guide to threads in Node.js
While it is single-threaded, Node.js uses worker threads that allow for a separate execution thread that runs alongside the main thread.
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Compilers for Free
I’m fascinated by programming, and by metaprogramming in particular. When Ruby programmers talk about metaprogramming they usually mean programs that write programs , because Ruby has various features — like BasicObject#instance_eval , Module#define_method and BasicObject#method_missing — which make it possible to…
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.
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The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
A question that is frequently occurring among my SQL training’s participants is: What’s the difference between putting a predicate in the JOIN .. ON clause and the WHERE clause? I can d…
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Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI
Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.
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Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub.
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Autocompletion with Deep Learning
We've put together an index of testing terms and articles, covering many of the basics of testing and definitions for common searches.
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How C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library
We explain how C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library and examine ways to avoid ABI compatibility issues.
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Infinite work is less work
The first task of last week's Weekly Challenge was to print the first ten strong and weak primes. A prime p n is "strong" if it's larger than the average of its two neighbouring primes ( i.e. p n > (p n-1 +p n+1 )/2 ). A prime is "weak" if it's smaller than the average of its two neighbours.
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Love Letter to Clojure
How learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life
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Bazel 2.0
A new major version of Bazel, Bazel 2.0 has just been released. In particular, it brings some important flag flips that did not make it into Bazel 1.0 .
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CUDA Grep
CUDA grep : Manish and Brandon's 15418 final project
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Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?
Kubernetes has changed the way I operate software. Whole classes of production problems have disappeared–arguably to be replaced by others. But such is the way of the world. All told I’m happier operating a microservices app today than I was before I started using Kubernetes.
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The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
A deep dive into the infrastructure of .NET Core. Challenges, changes and the future.
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React Router v5
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