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Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 03:17:20

Hello, since I’ve stepped in as libxslt maintainer I’ve been studying both libxslt and libxml2 codebases. I have the time to maintain the library I just need to get familiar with the latest changes you introduced like: I haven’t find how to manage both output and input buffers. I found functions like: xmlOutputBufferCreateIO but by the places in which I’ve found them is not clear on how to use them. Should I send you an email with my questions or do you prefer other means of communication?

Topics: buffers communication libxslt like ve

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Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 05:25:10

I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in serialization abstractions, my complaints would end there. But unfortunately, the bad design of protobuffers is so persuasive that these problems manage to leak their way into your code as well. Ad-Hoc and Bu

Topics: data fields foo protobuffers types

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Das Problem mit German Strings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 07:59:35

German strings are everywhere I look. The impression I’ve gotten from working in the Rust Arrow/Datafusion ecosystem and related file formats for the last couple of months is that StringViews (the implementation of German strings in Arrow) are becoming, if they have not already, the canonical form of representing string columns at execution time. This is generally a good idea. German strings are a fantastic innovation rooted in simplicity that greatly improves most string processing use-cases i

Topics: buffer columns encoding string strings

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Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 10:46:22

Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who wa

Topics: browser buffer emacs nyxt users

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XOR_singleheader: Header-only binary fuse and XOR filter library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:09:26

Header-only Xor and Binary Fuse Filter library Bloom filters are used to quickly check whether an element is part of a set. Xor filters and binary fuse filters are faster and more concise alternative to Bloom filters. Furthermore, unlike Bloom filters, xor and binary fuse filters are naturally compressible using standard techniques (gzip, zstd, etc.). They are also smaller than cuckoo filters. They are used in production systems. This is a simple C header-only library. It implements both binar

Topics: binary buffer filter filters fuse

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Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity

news.ycombinator.com Brian Douglas 2026-01-03 17:48:34

I've been writing a lot of C. Whilst doing so I have been questioning my sanity. Am I an awful programmer? You know what, I think I might be. Kudos to all those devs that created monumental feats with C. Because it is not an easy tool to use. That said, I do enjoy writing C, just as long as I don't have a deadline or any business critical software to deliver. But when I say enjoy, I mean enjoyment in the sense of using a sycthe to cut a lawn, whilst my lawnmower watches on. It's lovely using th

Topics: buf index return stringbuffer text

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Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 18:59:49

Few algorithmic problems are as central to modern computing as matrix multiplication. It is fundamental to AI, forming the basis of fully connected layers used throughout neural networks. In transformer architectures, most of the computation is spent performing matrix multiplication. And since compute largely determines capability, faster matrix multiplication algorithms directly translate into more powerful models [1 ]. NVIDIA probably deserves much of the credit for making matrix multiplicatio

Topics: buffering double global matmul memory

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Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

news.ycombinator.com Simon Edwardsson 2026-02-14 00:49:42

Spegel - A Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages June 23, 2025 TL;DR Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM and renders the result as markdown directly in your terminal. Your browser does not support the video tag. Two weekends ago, after my family had gone to sleep, I found myself unsupervised with a laptop and an itch to build something interesting. A couple of hours later, I had a minimal web browser running in my terminal (no JavaSc

Topics: buffer content recipe spegel terminal

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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 05:02:17

There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard problems in computer science!) and you don’t feel like making sure they’re both connected to the same network? Well, fortunately, another channel is available to us - sound, or for a

Topics: audio bufferbits const data frequency

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Latest Tech News

Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

Das Problem mit German Strings

Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

XOR_singleheader: Header-only binary fuse and XOR filter library

Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity

Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

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