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What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
Yet again, intern season is coming to a close, and so it’s time to look back at what the interns have achieved in their short time with us. I’m always impres...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
Today we’re releasing GraalVM 22.1! This release brings new features and lots of improvements — we’ll cover the highlights in this blog…
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Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
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Gitlab 13.1
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Three JavaScript performance fundamentals that make Bluebird fast
Bluebird is a widely used promise library for JavaScript which initially gotnoticed back in 2013 due to it being up to 100 times faster than other
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Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
Introducing our first Frontier Models!
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
Many people come to Clojure from an imperative language and find themselves out of their element when faced with Clojure’s approach to doing things, while others are coming from a more functional background and assume that once they leave Clojure’s functional subset, they will be faced with the same story re: state as…
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When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters
This is part two in my series of articles about bytecode interpreters, based on a small stack virtual machine which I have nicknamed PM…
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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR
Learn about jank's upcoming LLVM IR codegen, Rust interop plans, and more.
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Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics
Five months ago we announced some of our vision for Mach & the future of graphics with Zig. Today we've reached Mach v0.1 with over 1,100 commits.
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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.
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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987)
“The Implementation of Functional Languages” is a book about implementing functional programming languages using lazy graph reduction, and it divides into three parts. The first part describes how to translate a high-level functional language into an intermediate language, called the lambda calculus, incuding detailed…
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Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas... Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language....
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Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion
Deep neural networks are composed of many individual neurons, which combine in complex and counterintuitive ways to solve a wide range of challenging tasks. This complexity grants neural networks their power but also earns them their reputation as confusing and opaque black boxes.
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Tokenized Tokens
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The Optimizations in Erlang/OTP 27
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB
A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.
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SQLite Release 3.39.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
Annotations, such as Javadoc, help maintainers understand your coding decisions.
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Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
A lot has happened in the Nim world in 2020: two new major releases, two new memory managements strategies (ARC and ORC), the first Nim conference, and much more.
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Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.