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ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (Score: 100+ in 12 hours)
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Stack Overflow
Why do ARM chips have an instruction with Javascript in the name (FJCVTZS)?
FJCVTZS is "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero". It is supported in Arm v8.3-A chips and later. Which is odd, because you don't expect to see JavaScript...
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Liquid Metal (Web Experiment) (🔥 Score: 101+ in 1 hour)
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Scottdarby
Chaos Ink
String Field
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Interoperability Between Swift and C++ (Score: 100+ in 16 hours)
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GitHub
apple/swift
The Swift Programming Language. Contribute to apple/swift development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Lisp from Nothing (Score: 101+ in 17 hours)
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Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy (Score: 103+ in 2 hours)
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Layoutit
Layoutit Grid — CSS Grids layouts made easy!
Quickly design web layouts, and get HTML and CSS code. Learn CSS Grid visually build web layouts with our interactive CSS Grid Generator.
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (Score: 100+ in 15 hours)
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The New Stack
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate this question, ultimately releasing a paper titled "Energy Efficiency…
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Discord Desktop App RCE (Score: 101+ in 3 hours)
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mksben.l0.cm
Discord Desktop app RCE
A few months ago, I discovered a remote code execution issue in the Discord desktop application and I reported it via their Bug Bounty Prog...
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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (🔥 Score: 105+ in 1 hour)
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You don't need all those root certificates (🔥 Score: 103+ in 1 hour)
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hexatomium.github.io
You don't need all those root certificates
As of today, Windows trusts 322 root certificates issued by 122 different organizations from 47 countries. This number is quite high, and has been steadily growing over the last few years. And it turns out many of those certificates are not needed at all…
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Python For Feature Film (Score: 100+ in 2 hours)
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Graphics
Python For Feature Film
A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web (🔥 Score: 114+ in 1 hour)
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WebKit
Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web.
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Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go (Score: 100+ in 3 hours)
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tekin.co.uk
Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go and more
A small tweak to your Git config that will make the diff output smarter and more language aware
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Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes (Score: 103+ in 7 hours)
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Grid Sage Games
Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes - Cogmind/Grid Sage Games
Describing technical and design issues associated with having creatures that occupy multiple cells in the grid-based world of a roguelike, with solutions.
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Building a computer in Conway's game of life (Score: 100+ in 4 hours)
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Nicolasloizeau
Nicolas Loizeau - GOL computer
The purpose of this page is to describe the functioning of a computer built in Conway’s game of life. An in-detail explanation of all the mechanisms and all the components of the computer would be too long to describe here. Only the fundamental principles…
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Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors (Score: 100+ in 8 hours)
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A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service (Score: 100+ in 1 day)
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Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019) (Score: 102+ in 3 hours)
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Medium
Why mmap is faster than system calls
When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the…
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Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010) (Score: 103+ in 7 hours)
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