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Understanding the Go Scheduler
Go Scheduler
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,747 posts.
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Dotfiles feel too personal to share
I love dotfiles and I love sharing. But I have this weird feeling that sharing my dotfiles is too intimate and personal.
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Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u
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Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm
We introduce AMD's AI Tensor Engine for ROCm (AITER), our centralized high performance AI operators repository, designed to significantly accelerate AI workloads on AMD GPUs
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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
How many times are words, names or functions found in the Linux kernel source code? Browse an example or write your own comma-separated list to find out! You can use * for wildcards, foo|bar for sums, and a word is defined as \<[[:alnum:]_]+\> (ignoring case, considering accents).
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Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please
This was a good thing . YAML anchors in GitHub Actions are (1) redundant with existing functionality, (2) introduce a complication to the data model that makes CI/CD human and machine comprehension harder, and (3) are not even uniquely useful because GitHub has chosen not to support the one feature (merge keys) that…
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Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website
Adventures using AI agents, especially Claude Code, and MCP Servers
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I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English
Using Multi-Agent Collaboration with Evolutionary Test-Time Compute
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Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
Lately, there has been a lot of excitement around Durable Execution (DE) engines. The basic idea of DE is to take (potentially long-running) multi-step workflows, such as processing a purchase order …
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Language Support for Marginalia Search
One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish. These changes are now live for testing, but with an extremely small corpus of…
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Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
Lately I’ve heard a lot of stories of AI accidentally deleting entire codebases or wiping production databases . But in my case it was the other way around. I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.
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You Don't Need Anubis
don't use anubis just to block llm scrapers
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Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink
The dream of hypermedia can come to fruition in a world where clients can not only parse, but navigate with intent.
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The RubyGems "Security Incident"
Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. First, and most importantly: I was a primary operator of RubyGems.org, securely and successfully, for over ten years. Ruby…
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Citations on the Anthropic API
Claude can now cite specific passages from your documents, delivering verifiable responses with built-in source tracking. Update: Now available in Amazon Bedrock. (June 30, 2025) Today, we're launching Citations, a new API feature that lets Claude ground its answers in source documents.
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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
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Designing software for things that rot
Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.
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Demystifying Debuggers
An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.
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Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools.
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Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
Spend enough time looking at Python programs and packages for machine learning, and you'll notice that the "JIT decorator" pattern is pretty popular. For example, this JAX snippet:
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Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
Minecraft generates unique worlds with Perlin noise. Covers the algorithm, octaves, and Fractal Brownian Motion - with a terrain implementation walkthrough.
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C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use
With this post I will concentrate on the here and now: how to use C’s future lifesaving defer feature with existing tools and compilers.
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Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
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Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
We analyzed 1.8 million Hacker News headlines spanning February 2007 to June 2025 to examine database engine popularity trends. Using camelAI connected to a ClickHouse database, we uncovered which databases the HN...