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Rust vs. Go
This post is a head-to-head comparison of Rust vs. Go for NTPsec’spurposes. Read it bearing in mind that the NTP codebase has anunusual combination of...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
A whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search
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How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
I've been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and wish I'd discovered years earlier.
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New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
I remember the excitement when AWS Lambda was announced in 2014! Four years on, customers are using Lambda functions for many different use cases. For example, iRobot is using AWS Lambda to provide compute services for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, Fannie Mae to run Monte Carlo simulations for millions of…
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How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
Salted Password Hashing with Argon2, Scrypt, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2
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A better pull request
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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Migrating from Go to Rust
Out of all the migrations I help teams with, Go to Rust is a bit of an outlier. It’s not a question of “is Rust faster?” or “does Rust have types?”, Go already gets you most of the way there. The discussion is mostly about correctness guarantees, run…
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Building for the 99% Developers
Software development is not all clean code and automated processes -- and it never will be. Buyers and vendors both need to realize this.
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LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Claude formally proved security properties in the compiled code of 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, it found bugs that had eluded detection for years.
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SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
zigtools: We make free and open-source tools for the @ziglang community.
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Rust – A hard decision pays off
Edo Liberty, Pinecone CEO, provides a glimpse into the journey behind building a database company, including some insights into the latest innovations around the product and vector search.
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Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview
Clojure is a dynamic language. Among other things this means that type annotations are not required for code to run. While Clojure has some support for type hints, they are not an enforcement mechanism, nor comprehensive, and are limited to communicating information to the compiler to aid in efficient code generation…
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Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.
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Django 4.0
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Dec. 7, 2021
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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
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Repl.it Multiplayer
Today we're announcing the most-significant evolution of our platform — something we've been building towards for a long time that we're thrilled to share with you. Introducing Multiplayer: code with friends in the same editor, execute programs in the same interpreter, interact with the same terminal, chat in the IDE…
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PHP 8
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.