9571
Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
Explore data with Python & SQL, work together with your team, and share insights that lead to action — all in one place with Deepnote.
Topics /
Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,833 posts.
9572
Why software ends up complex
Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. For people interested in building easy to use software, understanding the causes of…
9573
Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.
9574
What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
9575
9576
9577
9578
PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
This PEP proposes adding an enumeration type to the Python standard library.
9579
Reasons to love SQLAlchemy
I've seen some bashing of ORMs of late, which I think is totally undeserved. I'm a big fan of SQLAlchemy ; I use it in most of my projects, and have contributed code to the library. I'm going to explain 10 good reasons you should love SQLAlchemy too! In fairness, there are a number of good ORMs around, and most of…
9580
9581
Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
9582
Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers
Here are a few internationalization (i18n) best practices to help front-end developers avoid errors and serve more robust text content on multilingual websites and apps.
9583
Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)
First published 2016.
9584
Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability
What happens when we collect too much data?
9585
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither.
9586
9587
Software Mise En Place
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
9588
Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful search for private code
Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin.
9589
Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes
An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
9590
Real pixel coding (2011)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
9591
I wrote a string type
I write compilers for fun. I can’t help it. Consequently, I also write a lot of parsers. In systems programming, it’s usually a good idea to try to share memory rather than reuse it, so as such my AST types tend to look like this.
9592
Clojure 1.11 planning
Tales of Developing Clojure
9593
Why we need to know LR and recursive descent parsing techniques
A couple of people have asked me for my thoughts on part of an article from Tiark Rompf called (roughly) “ Just Write the Parser ” which advocates the use of recursive descent parsing over more “formal” approaches to parsing, at least in the context of teaching compilers. I’m fairly sure I read this article a couple…
9594
9595
Nix Derivation Madness
I’ve written a bit about Nix and I still face moments where foundational aspects of the package system confounds and surprises me.
9596
When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
We explore how databases be used as effective Pub/Subs in Go, demonstrating how SQL's unique features can enhance message-driven applications.
9597
Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
In 2007 I wrote about using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized. For example, consider this recent Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon. Saved directly from
9598
Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
9599
Add a dirt-cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+
Recently the internet noticed the Raspberry Pi could drive LCD panels using DPI. This allows very inexpensive displays to be used with basically no additional hardware. In this post we dive into the hardware required, the software configuration, how to read screen datasheets, and basic troubleshooting.
9600
Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator
A very late blog post announcing the readability contest winners, a new (very) annotated implementation, and a surprising sort-of security issue found along the way.