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Fixing Gemma Bugs
Unsloth fixing Google's open-source language model Gemma.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?
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MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps
Accelerate your UI development with MonsterUI, our Python library for building frontend UIs quickly in FastHTML apps.
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DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
We are releasing DuckDB version 1.5.2, a patch release with bugfixes, performance improvements, and support for the DuckLake 1.0 lakehouse format.
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Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished stuff, which is essentially for a project like Nuitka everything that’s going on.
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Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out
This blog post summarises a new garbage collection algorithm called Mark-Scavenge, which highlights how using reachability as a proxy for liveness in moving GCs leads to unnecessary data movement and how we can address this. This work is from the latest paper within the research collaboration between Oracle and…
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A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT
Open-source TypeScript property graph database from codemix.
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Improving C# Memory Safety
The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is motivated by the rise of AI-assisted code generation and arrives as a preview in .NET 11.
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Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques
Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques: An Ultimate Data Wonderland
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Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel
Tycho Andersen
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How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
UPDATE: The Next Web wrote a story about my findings…
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State machine replication, and why you should care
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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PyPy warmup improvements
Hello everyone! I'm very pleased to announce that we've just managed to merge the optresult branch. Under this cryptic name is the bigges...
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Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning
“The What and Why of Adapter based Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning: Understanding Its Purpose and Significance”
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Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022
As we hit the holiday season, our Progress Report might be considered a bit late. A two month report became a three month report as we realized just how much work we had to catch up on. While the usual summer burst of activity didn't come, it seems instead everyone poured their time in throughout the autumn months!…
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Speeding up C++ build times
How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.
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Deno Deploy Beta 2
Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.
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Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac
Accelerating TensorFlow 2 performance on Mac
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Darklang Goes Open Source
As part of shutting down Dark Inc. and forming Darklang Inc., we've finally open-sourced all of our repositories. Our source code is now under the Apache License 2.0. For years, we wrestled with questions of sustainability and how to build something that truly empowers developers. We've
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Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.3: Fairings, TLS, Private Cookies
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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