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While it does not seek to mirror all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for 80% of the use cases. * It's fast (see benchmarks below). * Smart case: the search is case-insensitive by default. It switches to case…
8 October 2017Hacker News
Ask HN: Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated? It seems silly to write the same types of code over and over to build CRUD web user interfaces. There have of course been hundreds of UI builders. Why aren't they used? Styling should…
8 October 2017Hacker News
Every few months I enter the following query into Google: “Tensorflow sucks” or “f*** Tensorflow”, hoping to find like-minded folk on the internet. Unfortunately, although Tensorflow has been around for about two years, I still cannot find a bashing of…
8 October 2017Hacker News
This article will take about 17 minutes to read. Last summer I wrote this post which quickly became my most popular one to day. With webpack 2 and 3 it got outdated, so I decided to write a new one. I’ll assume you have a basic knowledge of unix…
8 October 2017Hacker News
For several years after the iOS SDK was announced, developers were flocking to Objective-C as they sought to get their slice of the app development gold rush. But those times are gone: Swift has been with us for over three years now, and has largely pushed…
7 October 2017Hacker News
I recently started exploring Go for some of my side projects and was really struck by its beauty. I realized how beautifully it made a balance between ease of use (generally associated with dynamically typed, interpreted languages), and performance and…
7 October 2017Hacker News
This week I took a crack at writing a branchless UTF-8 decoder: a function that decodes a single UTF-8 code point from a byte stream without any if statements, loops, short-circuit operators, or other sorts of conditional jumps. You can find the source…
7 October 2017Hacker News
7 October 2017Hacker News
A super slim root filesystem specifically designed to be used as a base image for application container images. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, the rootfs.tar.xz weighs in at only 12MB, and has access to largest GNU/Linux software repository with over 56,800…
6 October 2017Hacker News
A proposed standard which allows websites to define security policies. Read the latest Internet draft → Your security.txt file has been copied to your clipboard! “When security risks in web services are discovered by independent security …
6 October 2017