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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
Indexing the entirety of English Wikipedia on a laptop has become a practical reality thanks to recent advances in the JVector library that will be part of the imminent 3.0 release.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 419 posts.
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic data types, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support.
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OAuth from First Principles
I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3...
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PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Codestral Mamba
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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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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AI makes tech debt more expensive
AI increases the penalty for low quality code. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
Fascinating engineering details behind Paper.
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Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
Today we are introducing Phi-4, our 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that excels at complex reasoning in areas such as math, in...
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Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…
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Go 1.22
The latest Go release, version 1.22, arrives six months after Go 1.21 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Ruby 3.4.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.4.0. Ruby 3.4 adds it block parameter reference,changes Prism as default parser, adds Happy Eyeballs Version...
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Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.
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JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
Why I’m excited about the new Temporal API in JavaScript: finally, easy and accurate date handling with time zones using ZonedDateTime. Say goodbye to the headaches of traditional Date objects.
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LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it has stored.
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Deno in 2023
2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.
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Zed AI
From the Zed Blog: Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.
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Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
A brand new era for the RWKV-v5 architecture and linear transformer's has arrived - with the strongest multi-lingual model in open source today
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The Bun Shell
The Bun Shell is a cross-platform shell that allows you to run shell scripts in JavaScript & TypeScript
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Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
Learn about static analysis improvements coming in GCC 14 with -fanalyzer, which helps identify issues in C code at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
Clojure 1.12.0 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
Smudge.ai is a Chrome extension that gives you ChatGPT-powered shortcuts in your right-click menu.
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Python Cloudflare Workers
Introducing Cloudflare Workers in Python, now in open beta! We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the runtime to deployment. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post
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macOS Sequoia is available today
macOS Sequoia, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is available today as a free software update for Mac.