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Elixir 1.9
Elixir v1.9 is out with releases support, improved configuration and more.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,814 posts.
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Why mobile web apps are slow
I’ve had an unusual number of interesting conversations spin out of my previous article documenting that mobile web apps are slow. This has sparked some discussion, both online and IRL. But…
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Linux containers in a few lines of code
Trying to figure out how Linux containers work by implementing them from scratch in C.
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Was Rust Worth It?
From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.
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The git history command
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so …
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TDD from the Factorio Team
Hello, long time no see :) We obviously have a lot to talk about when it comes to the game changes we recently did, or plan to do, but we don't want to share any of it yet. Yet, there is currently a topic very relevant to us and we can share it without revealing any specific changes to the game. Today's post will be…
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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Customize the look and feel of tmux
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String
So there’s yet another iOS text crash, where just looking at a particular string crashes iOS. Basically, if you put this string in any system text …
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Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Aug 16, 2013. 6 min read. Update (6-9-2013) This code is now also available as the “jump” plugin in oh-my-zsh. Update (18-8-2013): Thanks to the many useful suggestions in the discussion on Hacker News, I have added (1) quotes to the code, (2) a section about tab completion, and (3) a…
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Help Message for Shell Scripts
I share what I know.
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
It's with sad hearts that we are announcing that search.cpan.org will be retired on the 25th of June 2018. Graham Barr originally wrote t...
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Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust
Rust is an appealing language for building user interfaces for a variety of reasons, especially the promise of delivering both performance and safety. However, finding a good architecture is challenging. Architectures that work well in other languages generally don’t adapt well to Rust, mostly because they rely on…
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
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John Carmack on Inlined Code
The real enemy addressed by inlining is unexpected dependency and mutation of state, which functional programming solves more directly and completely. However, if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of…
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Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
In the ELF format there are two ways of providing a hash table of symbols. DT_HASH and DT_GNU_HASH . The first one is part of SYSV generic ABI and is well documented and marked as mandatory. DT_GNU_HASH is a newer, smaller, and faster replacement that is not documented , implemented in a few places (Glibc, GNU ld…
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There is no memory safety without thread safety
Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to language...
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Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
I recently did 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. Here are some red flags I observed among the companies I spoke to.
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An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements
We take a look at whats new in Postgres 14, with idle and active connection scaling, memory monitoring, query IDs and more
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Unrolling the Codex agent loop
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
Incident summary Updates - Last updated 14:35 PST May 14, 2019. We expect this to be our final update. If you are running Firefox versions 61 - 65 ...
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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear alge…