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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 455 posts.
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NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them
Why two identical VMs on the same host can perform 20% differently — and what NUMA topology in Xen-based virtualization actually costs you.
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Perlisisms (1982)
2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
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The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y
There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, […]
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Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
Typed decisions with a probability for every option, from GLM-5.3-Flash in a single forward pass: about as accurate as Jev, faster from Europe, and protected by confidential computing. With a playground and a benchmark on 29 datasets.
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Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?
A math solver leads to encrypted code in npm packages. Follow the loader, the trigger matrix that unlocks it, the remote access payload, and the full indicators.
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Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
System composition and other interfaces for Biff projects
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Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
The optimizations behind Wasmi 2.0, and how they compare to Wasm3 and Stitch.
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.
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Statistics that live in your SQL
A tour of the-stats-duck v0.6.0: a one-shot data profiler, regression and bootstrap CIs in plain SQL, ten new distributions, and SAS/XPT imports that got 52x faster — with live Bedevere demos you can poke at.
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JDK 28
This release will be the Reference Implementation of version 28 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 403 in the Java Community Process.
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Angular v22
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of Angular v22. We continue to be proud of the work we do with each release. Our goal is to…
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SIMD for Collision
In a previous post SIMD Matters I discussed the big wins I got from graph coloring to make the contact solver faster. That same approach exists in Box3D. I like to call this approach “wide SIMD”. The idea is to process multiple work units at the same time. In the contact solver this means solving four contact points…
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Qualcomm Linux 2.0
Unified code base. Upstream first. No fork. SoC agnostic. Learn how you can build with Qualcomm Linux 2.0
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Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines
LocalAI is the open source AI engine. Run any model, LLMs, vision, voice, image and video, on any hardware. No GPU required.
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Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices
We’re excited to announce that Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026, following the successful expansion of Chrome to Arm-powered macOS devices in…
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SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.
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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
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Gleam v1.17.0
News post: Gleam v1.17.0 released!
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Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.
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Marimo now runs in PyCharm
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog
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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...
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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.
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TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
An in-depth technical analysis of TigerBeetle's core architecture, exploring how static memory allocation, zero-copy io uring interfaces, and Zig-based…
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F# 10
Learn about new F# 10 language features, performance upgrades, and tooling improvements shipping with .NET 10.
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Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
Repository bez by burrito.space on Tangled.