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Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched
The Go module mirror and checksum database provide faster, verified downloads of your Go dependencies.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 483 posts.
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Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
Aroma is a code-to-code search and recommendation tool that uses ML to make the process of gaining insights from big codebases much easier.
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Technical Vision for Qt 6
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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How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
In this post, we will describe our quest to create Alfred–Margaret, the fastest Haskell implementation of the Aho–Corasick string searching algorithm, which powers string search in Channable.
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Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
CSS Grid has been available in most major browsers since early 2017, and it makes web layout more powerful than ever before. But complex-looking new syntax (line-names! grid-areas! minmax! fit-content! ...
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Discovering less-known Postgres v12 features
Get to know and learn how to use some less-known features of Version 12 of PostgreSQL. You'll surely discover something new for yourself.
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Moving from Ruby to Rust
How we migrated our Tier 1 service from ruby to rust and didn’t break production.
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Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...
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Elixir v1.8 released
Elixir v1.8 comes with many improvements at the infrastructure level, improving compilation time, speeding up common patterns, and adding features around introspection of the system.
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A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
Troubleshooting in Kubernetes can be a daunting task. In this article you will learn how to diagnose issues in Pods, Services and Ingress.
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2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
We've been working hard for months , and today the Developer Survey results for 2019 are live. This year marks the ninth year we’ve published our annual Developer Survey, and nearly 90,000 developers took the 20-minute survey earlier this year.
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JQuery 3.4.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Usability Improvements in GCC 9
The upcoming GCC 9 release will have improved diagnostic messages, simpler C++ errors, more accurate error location reporting, and optional machine readable output for developer tools.
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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
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Future of TypeScript on ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning
Learn about attention mechanisms and how they are applied for text recognition tasks. We will also use tensorflow attention ocr to train our own number plate reader.
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Security assessment techniques for Go projects
The Trail of Bits Assurance practice has received an influx of Go projects, following the success of our Kubernetes assessment this summer. As a result, we’ve been adapting for Go projects some of the security assessment techniques and tactics we’ve used with other compiled languages. We started by understanding the…
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Android Q Beta
Today we’re releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. You can get started with Beta 1 today by enrolling any Pixel device (including the original Pixel and Pixel XL, which we’ve extended support for by popular demand!) Please let us know what you think! Read on for a taste of…
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Electron 7.0
Electron 7.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 78, V8 7.8, and Node.js 12.8.1. We've added a Window on Arm 64 release, faster IPC methods, a new nativeTheme API, and much more!