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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
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Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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What Is Nix?
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon.
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Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI ships a .pth credential stealer and a sitecustomize.py backdoor that run on every Python start. How the implant got in, what it steals, and indicators of compromise.
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PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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Sublime Text 3 Beta
The first beta of Sublime Text 3 is now available to download for registered users. Some feature highlights are below, followed by our new pricing and upgrade policies, and system compatibility for Sublime Text 3.
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GPT-5.2-Codex
GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.
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Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
Every week, a new AI model climbs to the top of a benchmark leaderboard. Companies cite these numbers in press releases. Investors use them to justify valuations. Engineers use them to pick which model to deploy. The implicit promise is simple: a higher score means a more capable system.
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TDD did not live up to expectations
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The bottleneck was never the code
The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.
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We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
On March 8, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com. In this post we share technical details of the vulnerability and steps we're taking to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks
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ITerm2 2.0
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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Tree Borrows
external page Neven Villani , external page Johannes Hostert , external page Derek Dreyer , external page Ralf Jung
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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
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Accidental database programming
Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier if we could just use a frontend optimized database like…
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Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
Start your video app development with three new Twilio open sourced video collaboration applications for iOS, Android, and ReactJS for the Web.
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Go version 1 is released
A major milestone: announcing Go 1, the first stable version of Go.
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6 weeks of Claude Code
It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled…
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Claude Code on the web
Today, we're introducing Claude Code on the web, a new way to delegate coding tasks directly from your browser. Now in beta as a research preview, you can assign multiple coding tasks to Claude that run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, perfect for tackling bug backlogs, routine fixes, or...