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Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
1952
TypeScript 3.5
Today we're happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.5! If you're new to TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript that adds
1953
Codex Is Live in Zed
From the Zed Blog: OpenAI's Codex AI agent is now available in Zed via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
1954
How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
When I go to Google Photos and search my photos for ‘skyline’, it finds me this picture of the New York skyline I took in August, without me having labelled it!
1955
How the new Threads app is made
Emerge Tools analysis of the Threads app
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024
The web is amazing.
1957
GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor. As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using…
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Pairing With GPT-4
GPT-4 won't build your application for you, but it can be a very helpful addition to your toolbox.
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The challenges of soft delete
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
1960
Julia 1.5 Highlights
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
1961
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?
How-to articles about designing safe, reliable, and secure embedded systems.
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
We have updated this post. Look for an tag to find the updates. Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a
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Twilio Functions – Public Beta
Write and run Twilio code without dealing with servers. 10k free invocations every month—$0.0001/invocation after. Now available to everyone in public
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Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5
Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!
1967
Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
Link time optimization (LTO) is LLVM's way of implementing whole-program optimization. Cross-language LTO is a new feature in the Rust compiler that enables LLVM's link time optimization to be performed across a mixed C/C++/Rust codebase.
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The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
In this blog post we announce the open sourcing of the rev.ng decompiler, the start of the UI closed beta, how to try rev.ng and much more!
1969
How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations.
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Java Virtual Threads Preview
Introduce virtual threads to the Java Platform. Virtual threads are lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications. This is a preview API .
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Teaching Claude Why
New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment
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OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model
As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release…
1975
GTK 4.0 Released
2020 has been a very long year. What better way to end it than with a major release! Today, we released GTK 4.0. GTK 4.0 is the result of a lot of hard work by a small team of dedicated developers. We will have a separate post to go over the statistics, but the short...
1976
What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
1978
gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
Building highly scalable, loosely coupled systems has always been tough. With the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, burgeoning data volumes and increasing customer expectations, it's critical to be able to develop and run systems efficiently and reliably at internet scale.
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1.