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Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data
Discover how Daft accelerates multimodal data processing with a high-performance distributed dataframe engine built for modern AI and analytics tasks.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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The Magic of Embeddings
Embeddings, why they’re useful, and how we can store and use them in Convex.
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Making sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an…
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MutexProtected: A C++ Pattern for Easier Concurrency
In this post, we will discuss the challenges of programming with locks and how the C++ language offers some useful tools to make it easier. We will start with an example in C and then use C++ to improve upon it in steps. The example APIs are based on real-life APIs from the SerenityOS kernel.
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PHP 8.3
PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as explicit typing of class constants, deep-cloning of readonly properties and additions to the randomness functionality. As always it also includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Storing data in pointers
Some notes on storing data in pointers and the impact of >48-bit virtual addresses
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Why Learn Compilers (2021)
A sufficient understanding of computers is impossible without learning how compilers and their parts work. It is like stepping into the computer's mind and seeing how it feels from the inside. Compil...
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Custom Allocators in Rust
Posts and writings by Nical
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Link-Time Optimisation (LTO)
I recently started exploring link-time optimisation (LTO), which I used to think was just a single boolean choice in the compilation and linking workflow, and perhaps it was like that a while ago… I’ve learned that these days, there are many different dimensions of LTO across compilers and linkers today and more…
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The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints
Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.
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Interactive Common Lisp Development
Common Lisp programming is often presented as “interactive”. In most languages, modifications to your program are applied by recompiling it and restarting it. In contrast, Common Lisp lets…
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A very subtle bug (2010)
6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for complex reasons”. As a class about designing and building complex systems, it’s a reminder that failure modes are subtle and often involve strange interactions between multiple parts of a system. In my own experience…
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A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)
Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.
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Street Fighter II, subtile accurate animation (2021)
This article is the final part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers
Recently, LLM-based agents have been all the rage – with projects like AutoGPT showing how easy it is to wrap an LLM in a simple agentic loop and prompt it to achieve real-world tasks. More generally, we can think about the class of ‘scaffolded’ 1 LLM systems – which wrap...
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Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit
Joel Gustafson
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Eytzinger Binary Search
This tutorial is loosely based on a 46-page paper by Paul-Virak Khuong and Pat Morin “Array layouts for comparison-based searching” and describes one particular way of performing efficient binary search by rearranging elements of a sorted array in a cache-friendly way.
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Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure
There are two types of programmers in the world: the practical, sensible, shell-resigned people who need to google the correct argument order for ln -s ; and those twisted, Stockholmed souls who will gleefully run their company’s entire infrastructure on 57 commands stitched together into a single-line bash script.
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Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Stacks
(New to this series? Consider starting from part 1) At the end of the last post, DbgRs could finally set breakpoints. That was the last really critical feature needed for controlling execution of a program. Now that it can stop on an arbitrary function or code location, the next step is to find more information about…
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Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
Welcome to my new site, brought to you by vanilla everything. No Javascript frameworks, CSS libraries or flashy animations. Just markdown, html templa...
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Do you really need foreign keys?
Foreign keys are a bit like that well-intentioned friend who insists on double-checking everything you do. They’re often recommended as a must-have for enforcing referential integrity checks in your database.
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A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019-06-25), with archive and current documentation links.
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YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto
YOLO-driven development - not for the faint of heart
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The PostgreSQL documentation and the limitations of community
In my opinion, the PostgreSQL documentation is simultaneously excellent and fairly poor, and both its excellence and its shortcomings are di...
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Service Weaver: A Framework for Writing Distributed Applications
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
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A Primer on Logic Programming
Getting a kickstart in the logic programming world with Prolog
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How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
Our strategy for making updates and maintaining stability while we migrate languages.
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Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.