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Announcing Project Zero
Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We've invested a lot in making our products secure, incl...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 360 posts.
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Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
What is an algorithm ? It’s a sequence of steps that you follow to solve a problem. In everyday life, you might have an algorithm for hangin...
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Go 1.3 is released
Go 1.3 adds better performance, static analysis in godoc, and more.
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Django 1.7 Released
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 2, 2014
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Announcing a specification for PHP
The PHP language has been around for over 20 years and is clearly one of the most popular programming languages in the world. PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet for server-side web programming .
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Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
Servo, the next-generation browser engine being developed by Mozilla Research, has reached an important milestone by passing the Acid2 test. While Servo is not yet fully web compatible, passing Acid2 ...
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Rust means never having to close a socket
One of the coolest features of Rust is how it automatically manages resources for you, while still guaranteeing both safety (no segfaults) and high performance. Because Rust is a different kind of programming language, it might be difficult to understand what I mean, so let me be perfectly clear: * In
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Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
Donate a Few Hours to Help Us Create a Free Software Backend for Contacting Congress, Make the World a Better Place for Digital Rights UPDATE (4/16/14): We're lowering the threshold for getting prizes, take a look below. For years, EFF has been helping concerned technology users contact Congress....
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Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
Cloud printing for retail and food and beverage operations.
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Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.
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Ruby 2.2.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0.
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Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
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Transducers are coming to Clojure
Transducers are a powerful and composable way to build algorithmic transformations that you can reuse in many contexts, and they're coming to Clojure core an...
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Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of mozjpeg 2.0. Early this year, we explained that we started this project to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining ...
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JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
pre.sourceCode { margin-left: 2em; } .sourceCode > span.k, .sourceCode > span.o, .sourceCode > span.bp, .sourceCode > span.kd { font-weight: bold; } .sourceCode > span.kt, .sourceCode > span.cp { ...
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Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
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The first stable release of PyPy3
We're pleased to announce the first stable release of PyPy3. PyPy3 targets Python 3 (3.2.5) compatibility. We would like to thank all of th...
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