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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely
By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel
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Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?
A look at TypeScript’s structural type system, and we how we can effectively use it to our benefit.
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.
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Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve
More on MMO Architecture:- MMO Architecture: client connections, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers- MMO Architecture: Optimizing Server Performance with Lockless Queues- MMO Architec…
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OpenXLA Is Available Now
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe (2021)
It is difficult to write software which reliably and safely manages processes on Unix; this is because of flaws in the API. I know of no Unix system which has solved these problems, but in this article I'll be specifically talking about the Linux process API.
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A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp
a personal blog
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Forth: The programming language that writes itself
A talk by Dave Gauer , 2023. Made with minslides , which I made for this talk . Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can also just scroll down like a regular web page. Toggle notes/annotations with the N key.
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On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
The rules laid out.
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A tale of Phobos – How we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA
For the past two years we've been tinkering with a proof-of-concept decryptor for the Phobos family ransomware. It works, but is impractical to use for reasons we'll explain here. Consequently, we've been unable to use it to help a real-world victim so far. We've decided to publish our findings and tools, in hope that…
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Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
(update 26-Aug-2020: the MSVC team has recently added C11language support to their roadmap, hooray!)
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
The second release candidate (RC2) for Nim version 2.0 is ready for testing.
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Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
Claude 2.1 excels at retrieving information across its 200K context window, with a simple prompt adjustment improving accuracy from 27% to 98%. Claude 2.1’s performance when retrieving an individual sentence across its full 200K token context window.
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Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools
Containers offer portable, lightweight environments for developing and deploying applications. And while Docker has been the most popular containerization tool, Podman has arisen as a compelling alternative. What sets the two tools apart, and when should you use one over the other? Find out in this tutorial comparing…
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Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are excited to announce a new API in Cloudflare Workers for creating outbound TCP sockets, making it possible to connect directly to databases and any TCP-based service from Workers
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Executable Examples in Go
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.
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Hidden gems of moreutils
It seems no matter how long I work with the command line, every once in a while I find handy utilities I've never encountered before. Most people have heard about the bird coreutils , that's where utilities such as echo , cat , and others come from. But did you know about moreutils ?
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YJIT is the most memory-efficient Ruby JIT
This year, the YJIT team and I have gotten a paper accepted at MPLR 2023 (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes), which is now freely available through ACM open access. The paper, titled “Evaluating YJIT’s Performance in a Production Context: A Pragmatic Approach”, goes into details of the strategy taken to…
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Your "simulation" might not need state
The bouncing DVD logo is a fun and easy coding project. Watching Daniel Shiffman code it in p5.js is one of my earliest programming memories. However, the naive solution is far from optimal.