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DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
Create DWARF debug information with the LIEF Extended DWARF editor and share reverse-engineered types and functions between Binary Ninja and Ghidra plugins.
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Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,747 posts.
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Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication. These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories…
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The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…
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Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers
In this essay, I will perform the logical fallacy of argument from authority (wikipedia.org) to attack the notion that large language model (LLM)-based generative "AI" systems are capable of doing the work of human programmers.
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Datastar response to misunderstandings
A recent blog post titled HTMX, Datastar, greedy developer and several Hacker News threads raised concerns about Datastar Pro, pricing, and whether features were “moved behind a paywall”. Here’s what has changed, who Pro is for, and how to achieve some of the same things with the free version.
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
It's a justifiable copout, but it's still a copout.
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`std::flip`
std::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header <functional>: it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”).
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Contracts for C
C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, I decided to give it a try and come up with ideas how such a thing would look for C. This is in early stages, not a full proposal yet, a…
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Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)
Vim is a powerful text editor that improves coding speed & efficiency through its shortcut-based Vim language. While learning Vim can be challenging, it is a valuable skill that can enhance your career as a computer professional.
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When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
A deep dive into Google Translate (and other browser extensions) interference breaking React and other web apps.
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How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken
Scaling reinforcement learning, tracing circuits, and the path to fully autonomous agents
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Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
Sometimes a merge request (MR) doesn't merit a code review (CR) because AI was used in a bad way that harms the team or the project. For example:
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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs
How and why marimo represents notebooks as dataflow graphs
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Parsing Advances
I find myself writing yet another toy parser, as one does during a Christmas break. It roughly follows Resilient LL Parsing Tutorial. Not because I need resilience, but mostly because I find producing a syntax tree and a collection of diagnostics a more natural fit for the problem than bailing out on the first error.
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Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling
In the previous chapter, we assumed that we can uniformly randomly sample our domain. However, it’s not obvious how to actually do so—in fact, how can a deterministic computer even generate random numbers? 1
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Advent of Code on the Z-Machine
Fantasy consoles like the Pico-8 are a great idea. A fantasy console provides a standardised and portable environment in which developers can explore ideas within creative constraints. The Z-machine , developed by Infocom in 1979, is the earliest fantasy console I know, although this is probably the first time it’s…
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Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)
A few months ago, I decided that it’s time I started to become more responsible and to start drinking more water. Unfortunately, the tap water where I live has a very high calcium content, which makes it a lot better when filtered and cooled first. To solve both issues, I picked up a second-hand professional water…
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Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts
Announcing fossabot, a new AI Agent for making strategic dependency updates, backed by a comprehensive accuracy, consistency, and correctness framework.
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Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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Zig's New Writer
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)
Introduction In this blog post you are going to read about two things:
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Numbering should start at zero (1982)
To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us
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Design patterns you should unlearn in Python
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Towards a test suite for TOTP codes
Because I'm a massive nerd, I actually try to read specification documents. As I've ranted ad nauseam before, the current TOTP spec is irresponsibly obsolete. The three major implementations of the spec - Google, Apple, and Yubico - all subtly disagree on how it should be implemented. Every other MFA app has their own…
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Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity
The number of characters was 464 characters at first, but thanks to the community it got reduced further, and the article updated accordingly.