Hacker News with Generative AI: Programming

AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services (xuanwo.io)
The Apache Iceberg community has raised a PR S3: Disable strong integrity checksums to disable the newly introduced integrity checksums in AWS S3 SDKs.
AWS, Software, Cloud Storage, Open Source, Programming
4 points by ulrischa 29 minutes ago | 0 comments
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/OpenRakis)
Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available.
Reverse Engineering, Emulation, DOS, Software, Programming
86 points by alberto-m 4 hours ago | 15 comments
The Anatomy of a Durable Execution Stack from First Principles (restate.dev)
We dive into the architecture details of Restate, a Durable Execution engine we built from the ground up. Restate requires no database/log or other system, but implements a full stack that competes with the best logs in terms of durability and operations.
Software, Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Programming
20 points by sewen 5 hours ago | 7 comments
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com/rt64)
RT64 is an N64 graphics renderer for playing games with enhancements in emulators and native ports.
Emulation, Video Games, Retro Gaming, Graphics, Programming
74 points by klaussilveira 6 hours ago | 22 comments
A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec (github.com/beala)
This python script implements the xkcd password spec.
Security, Python, Programming, Open Source
30 points by keepamovin 6 hours ago | 58 comments
Turns out the AI CUDA Engineer achieved 100x speedup by hacking the eval script (twitter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Programming, Software Engineering
31 points by pr337h4m 10 hours ago | 3 comments
Demystifying monads in Rust through property-based testing (sunshowers.io)
In programming pedagogy, monads have a place as a mystical object from the functional programming world that’s hard to understand and even harder to explain.
Rust, Functional Programming, Testing, Programming
14 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 0 comments
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (sylver.dev)
In the previous posts, we've explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It's time to put these pieces together and implement a query evaluator!
Rust, Databases, Programming, SQLite, Query Optimization
197 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 22 comments
I built a large language model "from scratch" (brettgfitzgerald.com)
I’m a machine learning / A.I. hobbyist. The technologies fascinate me, and I can’t seem to learn enough about them. Sebastian Raschka’s book, Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) caught my eye. I don’t recall how I stumbled on it, but I found it when it was still in early access from Manning Publications. I purchased it, and started working through it as the final chapters were being written and released.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Programming
87 points by controversy187 22 hours ago | 15 comments
AI Models Like GPT-4o Change Without Warning. Here's What You Can Do About It (libretto.ai)
As we move into a world where more and more of our software depends on large language models like GPT and Claude, we are increasingly hearing about the problem of “model drift”. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are constantly updating their deployed models in a ton of different ways. Most of the time, these updates don’t make much of a difference, but once in a while, they can absolutely torpedo one of your prompts.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Programming
13 points by aickin 23 hours ago | 5 comments
Cargo Cult Programming (wikipedia.org)
Cargo cult programming is a style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
Programming, Software Development, Software Design
7 points by KiranRao0 1 day ago | 8 comments
Show HN: The One File I Created for Every Programming Language (10+ Years) (referencecollection.com)
Offering practical and optimal guidance through evolving community-driven references to simplify your learning journey.
Programming, Resources, Software, Community, Learning
8 points by FullException 1 day ago | 0 comments
Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim (github.com/augmentcode)
Augment's Vim/Neovim plugin provides inline code completions and multi-turn chat conversations specially tailored to your codebase.
AI, Programming, Vim, Neovim, Code Completion
91 points by knes 2 days ago | 32 comments
Linus Torvalds: Mauro, Shut the Fuck Up (2012) (lkml.org)
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
Linux, Open Source, Programming, Software Development, Controversy
8 points by nitinreddy88 2 days ago | 6 comments
Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust (krish.gg)
Last semester at university, I took a course called "Syntax-Based Tools and Compilers". It focused on building a scanner, parser, compiler, and so on for a language called PL0. We used Python in the course, but I was really interested in learning Rust at the time.
Programming, Rust, JSON, Parsing, Compilers
115 points by KrishKrish 2 days ago | 57 comments
RPython Compilation Quick Reference (tilde.town)
Well first things first, this is way more ram hungry than you'd expect, and you're restricted to python 2. BUT, you do end up with nice fast binaries at the end. So let's proceed!
Python, Programming, Performance, Compilers
3 points by amcclure 2 days ago | 0 comments
eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop (github.com/mainmatter)
Don't stop at the first deserialization error.
Software, Programming, Rust, Libraries, Error Handling
3 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations (scripton.dev)
Python, IDE, Visualization, Software, Programming
438 points by nightcraft 2 days ago | 138 comments
Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode (evmole.xyz)
Blockchain, Programming, Tools, Ethereum
6 points by cdump0 2 days ago | 0 comments
These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review (gitlab.io)
This is a personal pick of the most interesting projects, tools, libraries and articles that popped-up in Common Lisp land in the last two years.
Programming, Common Lisp, Software, Reviews, 2023
12 points by trocado 2 days ago | 0 comments
XOR (greenend.org.uk)
Recently I was called on to explain the ‘XOR’ operator to somebody who vaguely knew of its existence, but didn’t have a good intuition for what it was useful for and how it behaved.
Logic, Programming, Computer Science, Binary Operations
575 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 93 comments
Programming with chronic pain (thomasvogelaar.me)
If you know me personally you’ll know that I’ve dealt with chronic pain for years. Mainly, I’ve had issues with my shoulders, arms and wrists/hands. Despite a myriad of medical appointments, physios, scans, etc. it persists.
Programming, Health, Chronic Pain
159 points by thomasvogelaar 3 days ago | 84 comments
What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust (ntietz.com)
Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the most recent messages without risking an unbounded amount of memory usage.
Programming, Rust, Data Structures
18 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 12 comments
F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org)
Even in modern devices, 8-bit processors are found, but the architectures used are often not well-suited to programming in high-level languages, such as C. E.g. MCS-51 (8051, 8052) based microcontrollers in the Realtek WiFi chipsets. The f8 is an architecture based on the experience and lessons learned from maintaining Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) and the many 8-bit architectures it supports.
Hardware, Programming, C, Microcontrollers, 8-bit Architecture
64 points by mpweiher 3 days ago | 35 comments
NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
NES86 is an IBM PC emulator for the NES.
Emulation, Retro Gaming, Nintendo, Software, Programming
128 points by Tiberium 3 days ago | 27 comments
Show HN: MOS6502 in pure Lua running in WebAssembly (carimbo.run)
MOS6502 in pure Lua.
Programming, Lua, WebAssembly, Emulation
47 points by delduca 3 days ago | 4 comments
Books by Niklaus Wirth (hansotten.com)
Niklaus Wirth is a gifted writer. His easy to read style and the simplicity that must have taken so much effort to achieve makes his books jewels in the often so obscure computer science world.
Computer Science, Books, Programming
7 points by andsoitis 3 days ago | 0 comments
Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Visualizations
262 points by higuidebot 3 days ago | 75 comments
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine (github.com/wzhudev)
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine.
Reverse Engineering, Programming, Software, Open Source
5 points by meagher 3 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Switch2Cursor – Smoothly Switch Between JetBrains IDEs and Cursor (github.com/qczone)
A JetBrains IDE plugin that enables smooth switching between JetBrains IDE and Cursor, with automatic cursor position sync. Features keyboard shortcuts, context menu integration, and tools menu access. Supports all JetBrains IDEs.
Programming, IDEs, Tools, JetBrains, Open Source
4 points by qczone 4 days ago | 0 comments