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In light of the recent announcements by NVIDIA and AMD in support of Linux for their graphics drivers, we would like to share with the world some of the experience we had developing our open source project, Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and recently Android....
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
Not long ago I needed to benchmark the performance of Golang on a many-core machine. I took several of the benchmarks that are bundled with the Go source code, copied them, and modified them to run on all available threads.
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
In part 1 of this series , we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs ) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live…
The topic of why Godot does not utilize ECS comes up often, so this article will explain the design decisions behind that, as well as shed some light on how Godot works.
In this essay, Carson Gross explores his preference for separating JSON and hypermedia APIs instead of using content negotiation, a feature in HTTP that allows clients to request different formats (e.g., HTML, JSON). He discusses the limitations of content negotiation in APIs, especially when mixing stable, versioned…
Today, we’re launching SWE-1.7, the most capable model we’ve trained so far. It reaches frontier-level intelligence at a much lower cost, advancing the…
npm's impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in ...
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
Postgres is “the world’s most advanced open source database”. It is a highly capable database server, and is ordinarily accessed using SQL queries. Postgres is also highly customisable, with the ability to add new functions, new data types and even new languages. There are currently several language implementations…
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
We are proud to announce Pyston v2.2, the latest version of our faster implementation of the Python programming language. This version is significantly faster than previous ones, and importantly is…
We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.8. Some of the new features for 1.8 are: More string functions in clojure.string (portable to ClojureScri...
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Even though Rust and Haskell are quite different languages, they are also surprisingly alike. If you know Rust, you have a head start with Haskell, and vice versa.
Immutable data structures – also known as persistent or purely functional data structures – are a key part of modern functional programming. Once created, immutable data structures cannot be modified. Instead, they support operations which efficiently produce a new copy of the structure with the desired changes…
We're excited to announce the release of pandas 3.0.0. This major long-awaited release brings significant improvements to pandas, but also features some potentially breaking changes.
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
Shell tab-completions can be very handy, but setting them up is complicated by the fact that half your users would be using Bash-on-Linux, while the other half will be using Zsh-on-OSX, each of which has different tab-completion APIs. Furthermore, most users exploring an unfamiliar CLI tool using tab completion…
