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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,818 posts.
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Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
Every software team says they do Agile and yet almost nobody is Agile. How did we get to this point? Where do we go from here?
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A Road to Common Lisp
I've gotten a bunch of emails asking for advice on how to learn Common Lisp in the present day. I decided to write down all the advice I've been giving through email and social media posts in the hopes that someone might find it useful.
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Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc.
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On SQS
In my position I probably shouldn’t have a favorite AWS product, just like you shouldn’t have a favorite child. I do have a fave service but fortunately I’m not an (even partial) parent; so let’s hope that’s OK. I’m talking about Amazon Simple Queue Service , which nobody ever calls by its full name.
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SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
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React as a UI Runtime
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
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Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
This is The Entire Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos. The curriculum is going to be organized in 40 courses in total, further organized in 4 academic years...
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Working with time in Postgres
A massive amount of reporting queries, whether really intensive data analysis, or just basic insights into your business involving looking at data over a certain time period. Postgres has really rich support for dealing with time out of the box, something that’s often very underweighted when dealing with a database…
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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CRDT: Fractional Indexing
Collaborative peer-to-peer applications sometimes need to operate on sequences of objects with a consistent order across all peers. For example, a peer-to-peer photo album application might need to sync the order in which photos appear in an album.
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The Hare programming language
Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks.
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Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers – low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing operations (such as counting the number of 1 bits in an integer)…
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Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control
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Reddit banned me for developing Geddit
Currently, I'm working as an AI Engineer @ amber . But mostly I'm an open-source software developer. That means I work on software projects that are free to use, modify, and distribute. Why? Because I believe knowledge should be free and open to everyone.
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What is “good taste” in software engineering?
Technical taste is different from technical skill. You can be technically strong but have bad taste, or technically weak with good taste. Like taste in general…
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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs
While links aren’t widely used in APIs, some very prominent web APIs use links based on HTTP URLs to represent relationships, which has several advantages. This post shows you why.