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Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
Understand .NET 9.0 LINQ performance improvements, faster iterator and the usage of Span
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 419 posts.
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DuckDB 1.1.0 Released
The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.1.0, codenamed “Eatoni”.
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Deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS
How we leverage Antithesis to deterministically simulate our entire SaaS platform and verify its correctness, all the way from signup to running entire Kafka workloads.
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React 19 almost made the internet slower
The author discusses the React 19 change that went unnoticed until last week that could potentially degrade the performance of websites that rely React.
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Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
Claude 3 Opus outperforms all of OpenAI’s models on Aider’s code editing benchmark, making it the best available model for pair programming with AI.
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How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?
Combining prefix search with repeated search, to accommodate multiple styles.
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Debugging in the Multiverse
Would figuring out your bugs and outages be easier if you had a time machine? We are now making a time machine directly available to all of our customers.
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How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.
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So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
What is a deterministic hypervisor and why do we need one anyhow?
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Wasmer 5.0
We are thrilled to announce the release of **Wasmer 5.0**, the latest milestone in our journey to make WebAssembly the greatest tool for executing softw...
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Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.
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A bird's eye view of Polars
Read how Polars executes your query from planning, optimizing to execution.
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Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.
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AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
Nine Technical Strategies for Reducing Hallucination
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State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading
Python 3.13 is out and it's time to run some benchmarks to see how well it performs with the new free-threaded mode.
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You can't just assume UTF-8
How to infer character encodings with statistics
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Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)
Introduction to the Temporal Python SDK and how Temporal is a durable, distributed asyncio event loop
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Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler
Since starting Wasmer five years ago we've been obsessed with empowering more languages to target the web and beyond through Webassembly. One of the mo...
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Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
In September 2023, Safari 17.0 on macOS shipped a small but interesting change to the <select> element.
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Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead
Estimating the effort needed to re-implement the Wi-Fi driver
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B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees
A blog by and for database architects.
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TypeScript: Branded Types
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR
Learn about jank's upcoming LLVM IR codegen, Rust interop plans, and more.