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Transformers from Scratch
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,826 posts.
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Memory Management in Python
To speed-up memory operations and reduce fragmentation Python uses a special manager on top of the general-purpose allocator, called PyMalloc.
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How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database
Hitting the limit for maximum allowed connections is a common operational problem in Postgres. Here we look at a few techniques for managing connections and making efficient use of those that are available.
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Doom engine code review
Before studying the iPhone version, it was important for me to understand how Doom engine WAS performing rendition back in 1993. After all the OpenGL port must reuse the same data from the WAD archive. Here are my notes about Doom 1993 renderer, maybe it will help someone to dive in. January 13th, 2010 : Reddit…
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A Picture of Java in 2020
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
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Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (2019)
Benchmarking Rust to determine if small structs should be passed by-copy or by-value.
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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
In this short video Steve Ballmer talks about a puzzle question he would ask candidates interviewing at Microsoft. Solving it is based on b...
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Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)
How does the math library's trigonometric function work?
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How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?
Please refer to How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? - Take 2 to check the latest result.
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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
Some may find it weird, but I actually greatly enjoy using Enlightenment E16 as my window manager. It's themable, hackable, lightweight (24MB peak RSS!),...
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Monocle
I've been working on a project called Monocle [http://monocle.io] these past few weeks, and it's time to show it to the world. Monocle is an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content with a focus on technology, startups and frankly anything
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I’m only making business card sized games now
Over the years I’ve worked on many games, some big, some small. I’ve found that the smaller the game, the more fun I seem to have making it. So I set out to make the smallest game I pos…
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My Go executable files are still getting larger
The original draft of the analysis we presented was reviewed internally, and yet still inaccuracies slipped through. We are a team of humans. We make mistakes. We take full responsibility for the invalid conclusions we published.
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Linux: What Can You Epoll?
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
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Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)
Unless you live under one of the few rocks that still lack Internet access, you’ve probably already heard of an “event queue” . If not, maybe “message queue”, or “event loop”, or “message pump” rings a bell. To refresh your memory, let’s walk through a couple of common manifestations of the pattern.
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Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
In January, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. We expressed our ambition to bring our best-in-class, but Windows-only, JavaScript engine to other platforms, with Linux as the prioritized target. Today at NodeSummit, we are…
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Elixir and Phoenix after two years
Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.
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RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability
Today we’re proud to announce RethinkDB 2.1 ( Forbidden Planet ). Download it now !
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Parallel processing with Unix tools
Tools for multi-processing on unix
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Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how when I’ve worked on any kind of distributed system, including systems as simple as a web app with frontend and backend code, probably upwards of 80% of my time is spent on things I wouldn’t need to do if it weren’t distributed. I came up with the following description…
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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
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New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
I am thrilled by all of the excitement that I see around AWS Lambda and serverless application development. I have shared many serverless success stories, tools, and open source projects in the AWS Week in Review over the last year or two. Today I would like to tell you about two important additions to Lambda: […]
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SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released
The Database Toolkit for Python
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Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
The Lumen Project is an alternative implementation of the Erlang VM, more known as the BEAM. It is designed to work in WebAssembly with the specific goal of bringing Elixir and Erlang to the browser.
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