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I cancelled my Replit subscription
I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi lan...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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LLMs Unleashed: The Power of Fine-Tuning
Disclaimer: This article mentions https://terra-cotta.ai/, an LLM experimentation platform I am building Introduction ChatGPT, Bard, and other large language models (LLMs) are very useful for a wide variety of tasks from writing code to answering complex questions to aiding with education. However, these models are…
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Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla
Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla! Today, August 26, marks the 25th anniversary of Bugzilla! The first two paragraphs lifted from our Bugzilla h...
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DuckDB 0.9
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many changes to discuss them each in…
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever…
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SQLite 3.43
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler
This post describes some performance work I have been doing recently on rustc. I spent several weeks on a particular problem with only a small amount of success. I hope a write-up will be interesting and educational, and may even lead to suggestions that make things better. The post is aimed at readers with some…
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Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
It is now ??????????.??? ( ????-??-??T??:??:??.???Z ) in Unix time , according to your local system clock.
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Real-time messaging
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
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Pictures of a working garbage collector
C++, a "Reality sandwich", and an Octopus.
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Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4
This year I got a very special gift for Christmas: a broken DualShock 4. :smile:You may say it’s a relatively poor gift, but the person who gave me this know...
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How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique for fine-tuning models that has some advantages over previous methods:
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Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
The Clojure team is proud to introduce Morse, a graphical, interactive tool for browsing and inspecting Clojure data, evolved from REBL . Morse is open source, licensed under the Apache license.
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
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Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
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The History of Windows 2.0
Success and Litigation
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Rules of schema growth (2017)
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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More optimizations in the compiler and JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception. HTTP QUERY is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request body. It's still...
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Emacs is not just an editor (2015)
Emacs is Not Just An Editor
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Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies
Before I start—to set some context—by frontend framework what I mean is, a framework that allows us to avoid having to write regular old HTML and JavaScript such as this:
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Philosophy of Coroutines
I encountered the idea as a student, when I first read The Art of Computer Programming . I’d been programming already for most of my childhood, and I was completely blown away by the idea, which was entirely new to me. In fact, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that in the whole of TAOCP that was the single…
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What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?
Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorous Toolkit makes this possible by making the creation…
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Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application
A series of patterns for building an AI co-pilot application.