14191
Hindley-Milner in Clojure
I wrote a lambda-calculus interpreter and an implementation of Hindley-Milner to type check it.
Topics /
Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
14192
14193
14194
Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
14195
Let's make the worst Htmx
Learning how htmx works by building one from scratch.
14196
Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015)
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.” — Steve Yegge There you have it. Think about it. It doesn’t really matter …
14197
Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
14198
14199
Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths
Let's revisit some programming myths and see how harmful they have been to our industry.
14200
Laying Out iOS UIs in Code
Software Engineer in New York specializing in Apple platforms
14201
Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
This post introduces the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric and explains how it works, how to measure it, and offers suggestions on how to improve it.
14202
14203
Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
I spend a fair amount of time wandering around in the terminal. The chances are that you are too since you dared to open this story. My daily activities led me …
14204
Bringing Clang to Windows
As you may know, Visual Studio now supports building Android and iOS applications using Clang. We realize the need of our users to write cross-platform
14205
New year, same old plans
The last time a major release of Light Table was in early 2016. It’s been 3 years. 3 years is a lot in developers time. Since, Light Table’s last release, vscode has developed from 0.10.6 to 1.32.0 . Amazing development happened in La La Clojure Land too, Clojure evolved from version 1.8.0 to 1.10.1-beta while…
14206
Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
14207
Ember.js 1.0 RC1 released
Official Blog for the Ember.js Open Source Project
14208
AWS Lambda – Best practices
In this post we are going to go through the best practices while building an AWS Lambda function. In order to go through this blog you should know what is it and you should ideally have built at le…
14209
Get an AI code review in 10 seconds
Personal Musings and Transcripts
14210
The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
14211
Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.
14212
Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning
In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work…
14213
14214
Python 3.2 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
14215
14216
JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid
Open Source Freelancer
14217
Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python
If you’re a regular reader, you might have noticed that I’ve been on a quest for the perfect backup program , and ended up writing my own encryption layer over bup.
14218
What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.
14219
Edge Case Poisoning (2020)
TLA+ Workshop Last Call The TLA+ workshop is next week! Oct 20-22, register here, use the code COMPUTRONSTUFF for $500 off. Learn how a few hours of...
14220
What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (2019)
Failure in computer systems is inevitable. Adopting Erlang's philosophy of "Let it crash" at the many layers of abstractions in software can have a huge positive impact on resiliency.