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Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
The history of page previews.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
Google's plans on making Swift the first mainstream language with first-class language-integrated differentiable programming capabilities. What's so cool about Swift?
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The Next Step for Generics
An updated generics design draft, and a translation tool for experimentation
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Claude Advanced Tool Use
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.
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Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder is Meta's frontier AI model that keeps track of what matters to you with Active Memory & Active Focus to work towards your goals at work & life.
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Deno 1.9
Deno 1.9 adds a new native HTTP/2 web server, a vastly improved op infrastructure, import completions in the LSP, an interactive permission prompt, blob url support.
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
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JSONB has landed
JSONB is a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that, depending on usage patterns, could be several times faster than the original JSON functions. This enhancement has now landed on trunk .
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GitHub CLI is now in beta
We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
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Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
Dear Ruby community,
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
We're sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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Visual Studio for Mac
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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of…
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GitHub CLI 1.0
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we…
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…
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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Describe what you need and get back ready-to-use spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and PDFs instead of just text responses. Update: Now generally available for paid plans with net network and egress controls (October 21, 2025).
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Stop syncing everything
Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—allowing edge applications to sync only the data they need, exactly when they need it.
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
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Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...
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Puppeteer Support for Firefox
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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Typst 0.14
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...
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Python 3.12
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Accounting For Developers, Part I
In this first part of a two-part series, we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money.