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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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C.S. on the cheap
The famous book publisher Hayward Cirker, the founder of Dover Publications built a fortune on finding obscure books that had either gone out of print or escaped publication altogether, and printing them himself. Among his many successes you’ll find amazing books on mathematics and physics including The Theory of…
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Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them
Antoyo's Personal Blog
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Build a Deep Learning Library
Instead of just learning how to use a deep learning library, we are going to learn how to create one.
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Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1
This isn’t a post about politics. I do have opinions about the now infamous e-mail server (which will no doubt come out here), but when the WSJ folks made it possible to search the Clinton email releases I though it would be fun to get the data into R to show how well the igraph and ggnetwork packages could work…
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Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)
An interactive explaination of how QR codes work and techniques for rendering artistic QR codes
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Inline previous result in Emacs Lisp
Artur Malabarba's Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence is nearly a decade old, yet it rings just as true today. Learning to Edebug really *"...
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Introduction to Hierarchical State Machines
The formalism of Hierarchical State Machines (aka statecharts) makes the state machine approach truly applicable to real-life embedded systems. Read more.
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Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015)
I’ve compiled a list of Python tutorials and annotated analyses. I've tried to list pages that are accessible to social scientists with little background in Python and/or machine learning.
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GPU Ray Tracing the Wrong Way
If you’re familiar with my blog, you know I’ve lately taken a fancy to doing abominable things to my Intel GPU’s OpenGL driver.
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Pg_stat_monitor – better insights into query performance in PostgreSQL
Percona has developed a new pg_stat_monitor plugin for PostgreSQL which captures all the details in order to provide deep query performance insights.
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Dynamic Linking Best Practices
In this article we’ll learn how to build shared libraries and install them properly on several platforms. For guidance, we’ll examine the goals and history of dynamic linking on UNIX-based operating systems.
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Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT
The eigenvectors of a circulant matrix do not depend on the matrix itself, only on the size, and the eigenvectors are columns of the FFT matrix.
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Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering
Distinguishing the trees from the forest in software engineering and how not to conduct interviews.
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I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?
Recently on Twitter there was a maintainer of a Python project who had a couple of bugs filed against their project due to builds failing (this particular project doesn't provide wheels, only sdists). Eventually it came out that the project was using a pyproject.toml file because that's
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Why not program right?
(Originally published on CACM blog.) Most of the world programs in a very strange way. Strange to me. I usually hear the reverse question: people ask us, the Eiffel community, to explain why we program our way. I hardly understand the question, because the only mystery is how anyone can even program in any other …
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C as an intermediate language (2012)
Here's a Forth program debugged in KDevelop – a graphical debugger without Forth support:
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Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)
I looked into Python because I was considering translating the Lisp code for the Russell & Norvig AI textbook into Java. Some instructors and students wanted Java because
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Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8
There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9 , Microsoft’s video-centric community site for developers.
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The case against self-closing tags in HTML
The history, facts, and opinions.
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