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Pandoc 3.0
A universal document converter
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Making noisy SVGs
Adding noise texture with only code
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How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
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No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
A reminder of how good we have it as software developers, or perhaps how hard it is for everyone else.
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XUL Layout is gone
So this week I landeda fewpatches thatcompletely removed XUL layout from the Firefox codebase.
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.
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Building an economy simulator from scratch
by Thomas SIMON
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SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.
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Svelte 5: Runes
Rethinking ‘rethinking reactivity’
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
A simple toolchain that Koding Kitty uses for building its web.
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
People keep asking why Jepsen is written in Clojure , so I figure it’s worth having a referencable answer. I’ve programmed in something like twenty languages. Why choose a Weird Lisp?
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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
SectorC ( github ) is a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits within the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine. It supports a subset of C that is large enough to write real and interesting programs. It is quite likely the smallest C compiler ever written.
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Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
Today we’ve got a very fun project to talk about: The FUE5 project, explained in this article by Hurricane. It’s Factorio, but 3D! Dreams do come true sometimes. It’s not quite a game, but more of a stunning re-imagining of its visuals. There’s lots of technical details on how this was achieved, so let’s jump in. What…
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Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Shadow is a new novel browser engine written in JS!
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Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
Bringing Game-Style State Synchronization to the Web
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PyTorch 2.0
We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch® 2.0 which we highlighted during the PyTorch Conference on 12/2/22! PyTorch 2.0 offers the same eager-mode development and user experience, while fundamentally changing and supercharging...
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Was Rust Worth It?
From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
How to use GNU Parallel to gather stats on long-running flaky tests by running them many times and capturing their results.
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{n} times faster than C
Owen's personal website and portfolio
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Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command
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What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)
Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include:
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Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
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How to start a Go project in 2023
I previously wrote about starting a Go project in 2018. A lot has changed since I wrote that and I had been wanting to write an updated version. What follows should be enough for anyone new to Go to …
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Accidentally Load Bearing
Sometimes people will talk about Chesterton's Fence, the idea that if you want to change something—removing an apparently useless fence—you should first determine why it was set up that way: The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly…
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Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
Another explainer on a fun, esoteric topic: optimizing code with SIMD (single instruction multiple data, also sometimes called vectorization ). Designing a good, fast, portable SIMD algorithm is not a simple matter and requires thinking a little bit like a circuit designer.
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Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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HTML Web Components
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to…
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.