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Voyage-code-3
TL;DR – Introducing voyage-code-3, our next-generation embedding model optimized for code retrieval. It outperforms OpenAI-v3-large and CodeSage-large by an average of 13.80% and 16.81% on a suite …
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,298 posts.
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Automating Dead Code Cleanup
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…
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Rust: Investigating an Out of Memory Error
TL;DR: We discovered the hard way that when backtrace is enabled, the anyhow library is capturing a backtrace on every error. Only when printing this error in debug format!(”err: {:?}”, error) backtrace’s symbols are resolved to human-friendly names, thus leading to a significant memory increase for your application…
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Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
This guide explains message queues with analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices.
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Qt 5.8 Alpha released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Living with Microsoft C++ Compiler Bugs and Ambiguities
It’s no secret that the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler has lots of non-standard behaviors. What’s even more unfortunate is that those behaviors are subsequently used by different libraries. Ultimately,
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Range joins in DuckDB
DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.
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Qt Creator 4.0.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2)
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)
How we gained 2–3% improvements in compile times by making GHC better at printing code.
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Native Socket.IO and Android
In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!
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Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE
We discuss streaming and vectored I/O in Postgres 17. This is an important step towards implementing asynchronous I/O in Postgres. In Postgres 17 we do not yet have asynchronous I/O, but we do see a performance benefit from what is essentially a refactoring work around the internal APIs.
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CRDTs and Collaborative Playground
Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
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Why is the terminal input so weird?
Learn about the technical architecture of the terminal that makes it very hard to implement rich – or even “normal” – editing features like you’d find in an IDE.
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Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages
Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.
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Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule
This document describes the un-development and un-release schedule for Python 2.8.
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Evolving GitHub Issues
GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects,…
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Is Go Duck-Typed?
In programming languages, duck typing can be approximated as the application of the duck test to objects. Here we explore if go is duck typed.
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Android N developer preview 2 is out
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs
Testing code fidelity with TLA+ specs at MongoDB. Explore conformance checking experiences and agile modelling in distributed systems.
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Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
Don't test in production. Test in simulation!