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A new home for Python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
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Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
PHP currently powers [~75% of the websites](<https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php>) on the internet. It may not be the “sexy boi” of programm...
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Are We PEP740 Yet?
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI.
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The weird of function-local types in Rust
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
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Linear transformers are faster after all
Our mission is to train a neural network to model all human output.
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What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
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Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets
The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That's about to change with the addition of functions like intersection, union and difference.
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Python extensions should be lazy
Python's memory model is a performance bottleneck. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)
Taking the League of Legends game server from a nondeterministic process to its current state required almost a full year of effort from multiple engineers. As a side benefit of this effort, we holistically improved the codebase’s robustne…
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FLTK 1.4 Released
Update (Nov. 18, 2024): FLTK 1.4.0-1 is a minor update that fixes a build error of a single test program (test/fltk-versions.cxx) on Windows (Visual Studio only). The FLTK library is not affected. End of Update
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Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos
The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and reported a leaked access token with administrator access to Python’s, PyPI’s and Python Software Foundation’s GitHub repositories, which was leaked in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub. As a community service, the JFrog Security Research team…
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Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme
Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban . Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot , our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to…
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React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024
The library for web and native user interfaces
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An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK
Emerge Tools analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK.
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PyPy v7.3.16
PyPy v7.3.16: release of python 2.7, 3.9, and 3.10 The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.16 of PyPy. This release includes security fixes from upstream CPython, and bugfixes to the garbage col
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Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go
deadcode is a new command to help identify functions that cannot be called.
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Building a streaming SQL engine with Arrow and DataFusion
Arroyo 0.10 has an entirely new SQL engine built with Apache Arrow and DataFusion. It's much faster, smaller, and easier to run. Read on for why and how we're making this change.
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Docs as code (2017)
author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community,. Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tr...
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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
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Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE
We discuss streaming and vectored I/O in Postgres 17. This is an important step towards implementing asynchronous I/O in Postgres. In Postgres 17 we do not yet have asynchronous I/O, but we do see a performance benefit from what is essentially a refactoring work around the internal APIs.
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CRDTs and Collaborative Playground
Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
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Evolving GitHub Issues
GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects,…
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Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
Don't test in production. Test in simulation!
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Overview of cross-architecture portability problems
Ideally, you’d want your program to work everywhere. Unfortunately, that’s not that simple, even if you’re using high-level “portable” languages such as Python. In thi…
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Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs
We create the world's fastest and most efficient AI.
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GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoying
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
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Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R
R has built-in support for two functional Object Oriented Programming (OOP) systems: S3 and S4, corresponding to the third and fourth version of the S language, respectively. The two systems are largely compatible; however, they are two fundamentally distinct systems, two systems for a user to understand, two systems…
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90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time
Index creation time is a critical database metric. Learn more about how Lantern enables 90x faster index creation times than pgvector, and how Lantern compares to Pinecone.