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Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
The first release candidate for Nim version 2.0 is ready for testing.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Kafka, GDPR and Event Sourcing
Proof of concept for compliance with GDPR on an Event Sourcing architecture built with Apache Kafka.
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Context Control in Go
Best practices for handling context plumbing in Go
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Working with Errors in Go 1.13
How to use the new Go 1.13 error interfaces and functions.
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Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
"Correct" doesn't mean "correct" when correctly using "correct"
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Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science
It's always very tricky when people who aren't educators start banging on about what should or shouldn't be taught in schools. My own school days are but a hazy memory of hormones, angst, and boring homework. Yet here I am, pontificating. With the current "fad" of encouraging children to learn to code, I thought I…
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What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release
Zig can be used to integrate closely with existing C code, or independently, without libc.
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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
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Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
You all know me, I love exploring new memory safety approaches and blending them together in weird ways.
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Bypassing Antivirus with Ten Lines of Code
I had originally set out to write a long winded blog post on different antivirus bypass techniques. I went through what was supposed to be s...
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Deploying a Django App with No Downtime
When healthchecks.io started to receive more than 1 request per second, it became clear I could not just go on carelessly restarting web…
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Happiness is a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
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This is CoffeeScript
I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
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The Twilio API for WhatsApp
Announcing the Twilio API for WhatsApp. Simply call a WhatsApp API in the Twilio app style and integrate with your language and framework of choice.
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Project Jigsaw: Complete
It’s been a long road, but at last the puzzle is complete: Today we delivered Project Jigsaw for general use, as part of JDK 9 .
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Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size
Posted by Yundi Qian, Software Engineer, Google Research and Mircea Trofin, Software Engineer, Google Core The question of how to compile faster an...
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Show HN: Clojure by Example
Clojure by Example
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An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell
Learn about type level programming by building a custom theming engine.
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Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision
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Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform
Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform guarantee API responses match your JSON schemas and tool definitions. Now in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1, this feature eliminates parsing errors and failed tool calls for production applications.
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POSIX close(2) is broken
There's just one small problem: The way POSIX has defined close(2) is completely and utterly broken.