Retractions or corrections of published papers are rare. We routinely encounter articles with fatal flaws, but it is so rare that such articles are retracted that it’s news when it happens. Retractions sometimes happen at the request of the author … Read more
Like many good stories, this one started with a simple question. Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? For example: struct Vector3 { x: f32, y: f32, z: f32 } fn dot_product_by_copy(a: Vector3, b: Vector3) -> float { … Read more
They’re already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we’ll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I’d say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don’t want canned responses from humans … Read more
Why We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites You’re viewing this document in your HTML-rendering browser but its source is actually a markdown file. And if you’ve ever worked in the web development industry, you must be aware of the myriad … Read more
Measuring Economic Productivity Is Pretty Much Bullshit — We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis Instead Periodically over the last decade (at least) I see media articles — including some by actual serious economists — hand-wringing about the supposed decline in … Read more
Should Linux set the new constant-time mode CPU flags? – Eric Biggers From: Eric Biggers To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected], Adam Langley , “Jason A. Donenfeld” , Ard Biesheuvel Subject: Should Linux set the new constant-time mode CPU flags? … Read more
“Individuals make free and informed decisions about their spending choices, and pursue whatever they consider to be their ‘good life’, safe in the knowledge that advertising in the UK, including OOH, is appropriately regulated to ensure it is legal, decent, … Read more
How do you handle user authentication in your web app or API? When it comes to implementing auth, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs for short) are often touted as an industry best practice. On some platforms, and for some frameworks they … Read more
How technical should a CTO/VPE be? It’s a question you might think contains its own answer—aren’t Chief Technology Officers or Vice Presidents of Engineering…always technical? You would be surprised how many CTOs/VPEs are good but not great technically. It’s an … Read more
Just yesterday, GitHub announced that it is working on a new feature for its platform called “Copliot“; which is an artificial coding assistant that predicts the next chunks of code that a programmer may want to write while developing software, … Read more