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Assault by GC
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request
Learn about Cohere models' ability to perform multi-step tasks, enhancing productivity and efficiency.
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JSX in detail
JSX react in depth - an interactive tutorial
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Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations
Synchronizing threads at a lower level.
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How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
Edit (June 2018): Unicode 11 is released, containing the half stars. Now the wait for font support... Star characters (☆★) have long b...
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Try to fix it one level deeper
I had a productive day today! I did many different and unrelated things, but they all had the same unifying theme:
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Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
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Rust from 0 to 80% for JavaScript Developers
Learn Rust to 80% in 5 minutes by leveraging your existing JavaScript knowledge. In this article, I list a number of differences Rust has compared to JS that is crucial to understanding it.
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Official support for .NET
Stripe.net is a popular open-source library for .NET that many users rely on today. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of official client libraries.
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Notes on Software Development Waste
Sedano et al (2017)[1] on "Software Development Waste" identified and describe that software projects manifest nine possible types of waste, in terms of loss of productivity and unnecessary friction.
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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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AM – Attribute Modules for CSS
A few months ago, I read an article by Harry Roberts where he introduced an interesting concept for working with related classes in CSS. In his article, he describes the use of the [] characters in class attributes to help understand their purpose at a quick glance. He presents this example, arguing that it makes the…
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Deno KV Is in Open Beta
Deno KV, the easiest way to add a strongly consistent database to your app, is now in open beta.
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Typed Programs Don't Leak Data
Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble, blog, and personal revelations.
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GCC: Patch to change default C++ dialect to C++14
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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How to get stock fundamentals data with Python
Learn how to download fundamentals data with Python using the yahoo_fin package, including P/E and P/S ratios, return on equity, and more.
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PyPy.js: First Steps
I've been spending a lot of time in JavaScript land lately. It's not totally unexpected – when I first applied for a job with Mozilla, I was warned only semi-jokingly that "they hire all the best Python programmers and then force them to write JavaScript". I've no deep love or hate for it as a language, but JavaScript…
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OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs
We benchmarked OpenTelemetry overhead in a high-load Go app against eBPF-based instrumentation to see where tracing adds real cost.
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C++17 and other future highlights of C++
Welcome to the 3rd and last part about current proposals for C++17 and beyond. In the last part, there was an overview on the current Technical Specifications, most likely to move into C++ after C++17 . The full proposal listing of 2016 sorted by subgroups contains many more proposals then I can cover.
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