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If I had to guess why HN is so attracted to Rust, there's a few things that compound on each other. Rust occupies a point in the design space that no other language does. Staticall…

I was wondering how the JVM and V8 stack up. Do you have a source for that claim? Genuinely curious. Coming from the game dev world, I’ve grown more and more convinced that managed…

> It's been flawless, more battery and memory efficient than Chrome Is that actually true?

"Surfer: The World's First Digital Footprint Exporter" is dubious—it's clearly not the first. Kicking off with such a bold claim while only supporting seven major platforms? A scra…

Some players will also be convinced that you're cheating if you play the game really really well, and they will get upset. CS:GO (now CS2) has a very fascinating way of determining…

> Managing build configurations... In terms of package management, you can apply rules to what crates you want to include; including specific platform constraints. [target.'cfg(tar…

Glad this was flagged. A lot of people have a misconception of managed languages being slow compared to your regular ol' binary program, these days that couldn't be further from th…

hckrnews.com + DarkReader. DarkReader is such a good extension, couldn't live without it!

"and it looks like they're finally improved on what was a terrible, clunky, extremely dated UI." doesn't hold true, it's mostly the same UI with a dark reskin. Certain editor hot p…

Awesome, thanks.

Hey there, this looks great. I was wondering why Deepspeech 0.6? Why not the latest version DeepSpeech 0.9?

What does HN think of Model M replicas? Had a few mechanical keyboards over my life but my Model M replica feels the best.

I started out by doing a raytracer, graphics programming is really rewarding. https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

Adam Ragusea*

The article is coincidentally written by Adam Regusa, my favorite food Youtuber.

Thanks. It's called BadLads, it's all about multiplayer roleplay, where each player has their own job. The games about to get giant procedural cities (with full interiors!) and nat…

I choose to irrationally support Linux, because I like Linux. There is literally no financial incentive for me to do so. We were recently debugging a newer build on Linux, which wa…

Proprietary tools that work significantly better/exclusively on Windows 10, plus games... yeah mostly games.