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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
Release notes for Ghostty 1.1.0, released on January 30, 2025.
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Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 488 posts.
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Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine
We're excited to announce a major architectural improvement to Atuin Desktop: a completely redesigned runbook execution engine.
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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512
With the holiday season reaching its apex, we have a few surprises for those of you that have been patiently waiting. The latest release of Dolphin is stuffed with treats. Our first present is presentation - frame presentation, that is. Two new options have arrived and will help users both…
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An LLM does not need to understand MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has became the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief your LLM does not need to understand MCP.
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PHP Core Security Audit Results
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
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Llamafile Returns
Mozilla.ai is adopting llamafile to advance open, local, privacy-first AI—and we’re inviting the community to help shape its future.
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Go 1.24 Is Released
Go 1.24 brings generic type aliases, map performance improvements, FIPS 140 compliance and more.
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AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?
AI reviewing AI-generated code - genius or pointless? Deep analysis of AI code review paradox + real data on why it actually works better than humans.
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PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks
PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take over PyPI accounts through password resets.
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Crystal 1.16.0
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.16.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
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My five-year experiment with UTC
Transform Your Time Management Forever! Discover how switching to UTC eliminated time zone confusion, boosted productivity, and simplified global scheduling for remote work.
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We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4
Asynchrony, fast approximate exponents, and 10x more efficient softmax.
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From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work
Understanding how search engines transform text into tokens through character filtering, tokenization, stemming, and stopword removal.
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Electron vs. Tauri
Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.
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Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire
A joyride through the dangers of lock-free programming.
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Jujutsu and Radicle
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Indexing Code at Scale with Glean
We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is import…
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Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials
Learn Robotics and ROS 2 Have you been looking for a good place to start your robotics and ROS 2 learning journey? Look no further! We are proud to announce that together with the University of Eastern Finland, we have open-sourced the robotics part from our “Robotics & XR” master’s-level course. You can find the […]
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PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations
We have prohibited new registrations of accounts using inbox.ru email domains.
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Automated accessibility testing at Slack
At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Our dedicated accessibility team supports developers in…
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Phi-4 Reasoning Models
Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. Learn more.
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Zig: What to Expect from Release Month
We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.
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Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
A story of poor email address validation.
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OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs
We benchmarked OpenTelemetry overhead in a high-load Go app against eBPF-based instrumentation to see where tracing adds real cost.
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Hitting Peak File IO Performance with Zig
This post goes through how to maximize file IO performance on linux using zig with io_uring.
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Sunsetting Create React App
The library for web and native user interfaces
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A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.