Ask HN: How do you search large code-base before adding a feature or fixing bug? 30 points by mohanmca 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 40 comments Why do we need to search source-code? 1. Quickly learn … Read more
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. … Read more
— title: Why the Job Search Sucks date: 2018-01-11 tags: life, rant tldr: It’s not your fault — I have been unemployed since November 1st, *four days* after my wedding. The company I was working for went out of business … Read more
HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web September 8th, 2015 – kyledrake Early this year, the Internet Archive put out a call for a distributed web. We heard them loud and clear. Today I’m making an announcement … Read more
In search of the perfect URL validation regex To clarify, I’m looking for a decent regular expression to validate URLs that were entered as user input with. I have no interest in parsing a list of URLs from a given … Read more
Don’t be afraid to scroll down in the search results, unlike in many other search engines, depending on what you are looking for, you may find the best results in the middle of the listing. Search results are not exhaustive. … Read more
For the last few weeks, I’ve been running CalyxOS. It is the latest in Free/Open Source mobile phone operating systems that I’ve used. This post is a summary of my experience using FLOSS mobile OSes and what my experience can … Read more
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO of Algolia, to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the first article in a series. Search engines, … Read more
Early in on my SQL journey, I thought that searching for a piece of text in the database mostly involved querying like this: SELECT col FROM table WHERE col LIKE ‘%some_value%’; Then I would throw in some wildcard operators or … Read more
“In 2020 I flipped the switch to use a completely rewritten parser for Sourcegraph search queries. It serves tens of thousands of users and processes millions of queries. And after flipping the switch… nothing remarkable happened. Nobody noticed. Zero reports … Read more