Explore a novel language design where memory lifetime is strictly tied to lexical scope, offering deterministic cleanup and preventing common memory errors without GC or borrow checkers. Discover how this approach handles scalability, concurrency, and traditional challenges in systems programming.
Explore the core reasons behind common frustrations with streaming apps, from memory leaks and poor UI to ad management issues. Uncover the strategic tension between content delivery and app quality, and how different company priorities shape your viewing experience.
When mmap obscures memory usage, scheduling stateful nodes becomes a nightmare. Discover strategies for better resource accounting, backpressure, and architecture choices to avoid cascading failures.
Explore the historical, technical, and security reasons behind why memory stacks typically grow downwards, and discover alternative architectures that chose an upward growth path.
Choosing between C and C++ involves a fundamental trade-off. Discover when to prioritize C's direct control and when to leverage C++'s powerful abstractions for modern development.
Explore a collection of abandoned projects and discover valuable lessons, including a detailed, practical guide for building a text classification and recommendation system using SBERT, k-means, and SVM.
A deep dive into why Windows ME was so notoriously unstable, exploring its architectural limitations, the explosion of third-party drivers, and how it compared to the more robust Windows 2000/XP.
Developers debate the C programming language, weighing its unparalleled control and proximity to hardware against its notorious lack of safety and the modern alternatives that prioritize productivity and security.
A Hacker News discussion reveals C's stronghold in systems programming, embedded devices, and databases, while offering advice and alternatives like Go for developers seeking simplicity.