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Rust as the New C Part 1: Building and Combining Native Libs into C API
Evaluating Rust as the common denominator of modern development
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms
Hello, Several FFFs ago we have shown you what a Space platform can look like (FFF-373), today we would like to explain how they work in a bit more detail.
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My favourite small hash table
I'm the kind of person who thinks about the design and implementation of hash tables. One design which I find particularly cute, and I think deserves a bit more publicity, is Robin Hood open-addressing with linear probing and power-of-two table size. If you're not familiar with hash table terminology, that might look…
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A “Hello World” Server in Prolog
Below is the source from our first web-server. It serves a single page, named /hello_world , which returns a simple plain-text message. Note the three elements of the page:
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Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route
It's been a while since I've posted so figured it's about time I started a new series on my blog.
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The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
Fil-C achieves memory safety even for programs that behave adversarially. That includes casting function pointers to the wrong signature and then calling them, exporting a function with one signature in one module and then importing it with a different signature in another, or even exporting a symbol as a function in…
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How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions
Simple guide to extending your browser with Chrome extensions
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TensorFlow 0.12 adds support for Windows
Native support for TensorFlow on Windows was one of the first requests we received after open-sourcing TensorFlow. Although some Windows users have managed to run TensorFlow in a Docker container, we wanted to provide a more complete experience including GPU support.
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Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf
Today we’re talking about ALF. It’s a surprising move for Nicole Express; we do not condone cat-eating. But neither did Alf, eventually. In any case, we’re n...
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Richer command line interfaces
This post is preceded by a description of two types of command line interfaces . The more command line-like of these two types integrates into a normal shell session ( python , telnet , bash ) instead of using the alternate screen to present a fullscreen text user interface ( top , vim , emacs ). Sometimes programs…
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Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1
Exploring the area of using Rust to write Mesa Vulkan drivers.
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TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
Introducing TensorFlow GNN, a library to build Graph Neural Networks on the TensorFlow platform.
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Making Sandspiel
Sandspiel is a falling sand game I built in late 2018. I really enjoyed writing this game, and wanted to put into writing some of my goals, design decisions, and learnings from that process. If you’re reading this but haven’t played sandspiel, you should probably go try it !
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PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot
We're pleased to announce the 1.7 release of PyPy. As became a habit, this release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements ove...
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A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis
a bare minimum introduction to modern program synthesis
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CRDT: Text Buffer
Collaboratively editing strings of text is a common desire in peer-to-peer applications. For example, a note-taking app might represent each document as a single collaboratively-edited string of text.
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The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
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Deep Learning Basics with Python, TensorFlow and Keras
Python Programming tutorials from beginner to advanced on a massive variety of topics. All video and text tutorials are free.
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The Story of ISPC: Intel SPMD Program Compiler
Collected together all for your convenience.
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Several core problems with Rust
I used to call myself a Rust hater, but really I was doing it just to compensate for the perceivable fanboyism e.g. Rust tops on stackoverflow surveys as most-loved language. There are many reasons to hate C++, and I hate C++ too. Lots of people were waiting for a better programming language, but got Rust instead.
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples
40 common false assumptions programmers make about names, debunked with real-world examples from global naming systems and identity practices.