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A database for 2022
we moved from etcd to SQLite for a simpler, more scalable database solution. Learn about Litestream, live replication, and lessons learned.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Sequence diagrams really shine when you’re documenting different parts of a system and the various ways these parts interact with each other.
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GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new
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Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerab...
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...
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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
We're very proud to open-source Next.js, a small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps.
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Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 4.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat to make remote work productive and delightful. Fortune 500 companies, …
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Understanding Awk
Learn the basics of Awk, a powerful text processing tool, in this informative article. Discover how to use Awk to manipulate and analyze data, calc...
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Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Get more out of Claude Code: tell Claude what it can't see, give it a check to run, and enforce the rules that can't have exceptions.
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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
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.NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.
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What Claude Code chooses
Benchmarking and Ground Control for developer tool providers. Understand agent choices and test what helps them succeed.
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Teller – API for your bank account
How many times have you thought to yourself “Damn, I really wish my bank account had an API”? I bet the answer is a lot. Well, today is the last day you will ever think that again because we are pleased to announce that the Teller API beta program is now open to the public.
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Deno raises $21M
Series A led by Sequoia Capital
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Use mmap with care
When we implemented the git portion of Sublime Merge , we chose to use mmap for reading git object files. This turned out to be considerably more difficult than we had first thought. Using mmap in desktop applications has some serious caveats, and here's why:
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TypeScript 5.0
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler,
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Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers
I remember the first time I interviewed for a front-end programming position and got asked how to do something in JavaScript on a white board. The specifics are vague, but it’s crystal clear how stupid it made me feel and how little it had to do with the actual job. Since then I’ve r…
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Ruby 3.3
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.3.0. Ruby 3.3 adds a new parser named Prism, uses Lrama as a parser generator, adds a new pure-Ruby JIT comp...
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Rust running on every GPU
I've built a demo of a single
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c , though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the…