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(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Go team plans around error handling support
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute
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Deno Joins TC39
Deno has joined the JavaScript standards committee to improve the language for everyone.
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Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
After long months of work by a dedicated team of enthusiasts, today we are proud to announce the release of the beta version of Zellij
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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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Python and Django on Heroku
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku's polyglot platform, going into public beta as of today. Python is the...
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Text Summarization with TensorFlow
Posted by Peter Liu and Xin Pan, Software Engineers, Google Brain TeamEvery day, people rely on a wide variety of sources to stay informed -- from ...
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Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026, but only if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.
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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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Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
In this tutorial, we will implement a Rust program that attempts to utilize 100% of the theoretical capacity of three relatively modern, mid-range CPUs. We'll use an existing, highly efficient C++ implementation as a reference point to compare how our Rust program is doing. We start with a simple baseline solution of…
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Asciinema 2.0
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...
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Bazel 1.0
We're excited to announce the first General Availability release of Bazel, an open source build system designed to support a wide variety of programming languages and platforms.
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We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
We replaced expensive sandboxes with ChromaFs, a virtual filesystem over Chroma, to give our docs AI assistant the ability to explore documentation like a developer would.
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Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
We benchmarked Claude Fable 5 on 200 real-world coding tasks for the Agent Security League.
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Julia 1.6 Highlights
Some highlights of the Julia 1.6 release.
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Saying goodbye to asm.js
Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
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Postman Now Supports gRPC
We are excited to announce first-class support for gRPC in Postman. Learn how to get started today.
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.
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Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)
Several weeks ago we received a bug report from a customer that said their game was crashing when using IL2CPP scripting backend. QA verified the bug and assigned it to me for fixing. The project was quite big (although far from the largest ones); it took 40 minutes to build on my machine. The instructions on the bug…
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Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project
Today I’d like to announce a new Mozilla project called ‘mozjpeg’. The goal is to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority ...
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C Is Best (2025)
Since its inception on 2000-05-29, SQLite has been implemented in generic C. C was and continues to be the best language for implementing a software library like SQLite. There are no plans to recode SQLite in any other programming language at this time.
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ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…