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Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 597 posts.
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Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
Push notifications were standardized in 2016 with the release of the Push API and the Notification API, which are part of the W3C's Web Applications Working Group. These APIs provide the necessary functionality for web developers to incorporate push notifications into their web applications and for users to receive…
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The State of Async Rust: Runtimes
Recently, I found myself returning to a compelling series of blog posts titled Zero-cost futures in Rust by Aaron Turon about what would become the foundation of Rust’s async ecosystem and the Tokio runtime. This series stands as a cornerstone in wri…
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Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
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The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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The Development of the C Language (1993)
C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979, when portability of the Unix system was being demonstrated. In the middle of this second period, the first…
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Emerging architectures for LLM applications
A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.
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From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (2019)
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Phoenix Dev Blog – Streams
LiveView's new Streams feature is set to be a game changer and yet easy to use at the same time. Chris McCord writes this dev blog post shining a light onto this new feature.
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I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again
For almost two years now, the vast majority of our backend code was written in Rust (aside from a little bit of Python). I love Rust, it’s by far my favorite language. I find myself missing match in pretty much every other language I go to. However, if I was doing it over, I wouldn’t choose Rust. This advice is…
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Zig 0.11
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code
LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level…
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Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods
An interactive guide to retrying requests: why naive retries overload a failing service, and how exponential backoff and jitter fix it.
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
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SQLite 3.42.0
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 .
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The Determinate Nix Installer
A fresh new alternative to the official Nix installation scripts.
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Hard stuff when building products with LLMs
In this post, Phillip talks through the challenges & pitfalls of LLMs we faced when building our Query Assistant - and that you too may face.
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GitHub code search is generally available
The world’s code is now at your fingertips.
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Declarative Shadow DOM
We’re pleased to announce that support for the declarative shadow DOM API has been added and enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 162.
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Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs
Loro, our high-performance CRDTs library, is now open source. In this article, we share our vision for the local-first software development paradigm, why we're excited about it, and the current status of Loro.
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Oxidizing OCaml: Locality
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented.
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64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Supposedly Bill Gates, circa 1981.
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Git archive checksums may change
We are reverting this change for now. More details to follow. The default compression for Git archives has recently changed. As result, archives downloaded from GitHub may have different checksums…
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Meta developer tools: Working at scale
Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme sca…
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Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode
In April 2021, the Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® released a set of provisional extensions, collectively referred to as ‘Vulkan Video’ which provide seamless encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards. The December 2022 release of Vulkan 1.3.238 saw the finalization of the…
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Why Lisp?
A lot of people ask us the question, why do we choose to use Common Lisp as our primary development language? Often times the question comes disguised as a suggestion: "Flask is a great webserver you should consider using". This is a well intentioned suggestion- of course we would like to use the best tools available!…
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
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Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups
Codon is a new tool that compiles Python code to run it more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains.