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A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
why people pretending CSV is dead are wrong
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 488 posts.
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Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners
Editor’s note (August 25, 2026): Updated the Node20 removal date to September 23rd, 2026. Editor’s note (February 25, 2026): Updated the migration date to June of 2026. Editor’s note (May…
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DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
Create DWARF debug information with the LIEF Extended DWARF editor and share reverse-engineered types and functions between Binary Ninja and Ghidra plugins.
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Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication. These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories…
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The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…
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Datastar response to misunderstandings
A recent blog post titled HTMX, Datastar, greedy developer and several Hacker News threads raised concerns about Datastar Pro, pricing, and whether features were “moved behind a paywall”. Here’s what has changed, who Pro is for, and how to achieve some of the same things with the free version.
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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs
How and why marimo represents notebooks as dataflow graphs
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Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts
Announcing fossabot, a new AI Agent for making strategic dependency updates, backed by a comprehensive accuracy, consistency, and correctness framework.
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Design patterns you should unlearn in Python
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Zig 0.15.1
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
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Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)
Transducer: Composition, Abstraction, Performance
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Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
How S2 uses deterministic simulation testing for async Rust to find distributed-systems bugs before they reach production.
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Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
When your CI pipelines are slow, you can only optimize so much. Bottlenecks in CPU, Network, Memory, and Disk I/O can all contribute to slow CI pipelines. Let's take a look at how disk I/O can be a bottleneck in GitHub Actions.
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Ada crate of the year 2024 announced
In 2024 we announced our fourth Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards. We see the Alire source package manager as a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to…
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Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
Forgejo v13.0 was released on 16 October 2025. You will find a short selection of the changes it introduces below and a complete list in the release notes .
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You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React
Why we moved the ComfyDeploy dashboard from Next.js to React with TanStack Router and Rspack: build time fell from 3 minutes to 18 seconds.
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The Beam
In Lorena's latest instalment, learn about the foundations of Elixir's power and reliability with the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).
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I designed my LED matrix PCB with code
This tutorial will walk you through building a 3x5 LED matrix controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico using tscircuit.
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A faster path to container images in Bazel
rules_img is a Bazel ruleset for building and publishing OCI images that feel native to Bazel by treating images as metadata first and moving bytes only at the edges.
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Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes
In this article, we introduce the expand and contract pattern to help migrate data and clients to a new schema.
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QEMU Version 10.0.0 Released
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 10.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 211 authors.
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Design System Options for Rails
Choosing a design system and component library for Ruby on Rails applications
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Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale
Brian Scott made an app that's safe, simple, and educational for kids to chat in, using Tailscale's tsnet and connectivity.
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Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
How to reliably understand if a candidate is a good programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori
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COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in
One of legal tech's clichés is that "lawyers live in Word". This is demonstrably incorrect. I, for example, am a lawyer and in fact live in London, England…
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The write last, read first rule
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge:
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Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc
Learn how AsciiDoc combines simplicity with advanced features. Create documentation that stands out, saves time, and ensures clarity.
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Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation
Developers can now test experimental image output generation with Gemini 2.0 Flash via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.