“shouldn’t this have been published a few months ago?” yeah, probably. I even considered submitting it to the AoC contest. time is a real beast. The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out…
In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users. It would not be possible to scale without the help from our beloved community. A million thanks for your energ…
I can mathematically prove the game's not fun.
Emacs 29 introduces tree-sitter support, a powerful parsing library that enhances its understanding of source code. With this integration, Emacs gains features like precise syntax highlighting, accurate indentation and easier extensibility. Here's how you install and configure Emacs with tree-sitter support.
I implemented new --shuffle option for GNU make to simulate non-deterministic build order in parallel makefiles.
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
The pganalyze Indexing Engine simulates hundreds of possible combinations to recommend missing Postgres indexes using its 'What if?' analysis.
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Languages can be so different from each other—but there are a few words nearly all languages have in common! Can you guess which ones?
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!
So where might we be headed instead?
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations
The library for web and native user interfaces
My sister’s stalker, who had used Instagram and Bumble to work out where she lived and start stalking her in real life, was recently…
One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from…
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple…
All of us had become disappointed with computer RPGs because they were going in the opposite direction of where we thought they should be going. They were becoming story- and stat-laden, really appealing to a super-small niche of super RPG geeks — which we were in a way, but that wasn’t really our style.
This is a technique I’ve used in actual for-pay software, but most recently in my text adventure game editor, Hiss .
My friend gave me permission to hack her, here's how I did it and how to stop it happening to you.
What happens if you give the Intel 8086 processor an instruction that doesn't exist? A modern microprocessor (80186 and later) will gener...
The housing market is even worse in Canada than it is here.
Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…
Rémy Rakic is helping us enable the adoption of memory safe software through work to improve Rust compile times. We asked him to provide his perspective on the work in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Rémy! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG's Prossimo project Introduction Over the past few months…
Researchers have developed a molecule that is, when administered nasally, extremely effective in preventing the disease caused by all known variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The molecule can be a key tool in preparing for future pandemics, as it is aimed at preventing both the transmission and spread of the virus.
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We are at a critical juncture in AI governance. To mitigate current and future harms from AI systems, we need to embrace openness, transparency, and broad access.
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OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.
