Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Orthodox C++(gist.github.com)

48 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 35 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Grok Build is open source(github.com)

560 points by skp1995 3 months ago | 591 comments

GitHub repository for xAI's Grok Build, an open-source coding agent harness and fullscreen, mouse-interactive, extensible terminal UI under Apache-2.0.

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system(github.com)

436 points by pranshuparmar 10 months ago | 82 comments

GitHub repository for witr, a Linux CLI tool that traces a process, service, or port back to its origin and explains why it is running.

Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic(github.com)

416 points by striking 2 years ago | 243 comments

GitHub repository for git-absorb, a tool that automatically creates fixup commits for staged changes, like git commit --fixup but automatic.

Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)(github.com)

948 points by LightMachine 2 years ago | 179 comments

GitHub repository for Bend, a massively parallel, high-level programming language from HigherOrderCO that runs on GPUs via the HVM2 runtime.

FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster(github.com)

319 points by realsarm 2 years ago | 149 comments

GitHub repository for FastUI by Pydantic, a library for building web user interfaces declaratively in Python with React rendering.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates(github.com)

1252 points by StanAngeloff 6 months ago | 686 comments

GitHub issue on anthropics/claude-code reporting that Claude Code became unusable for complex engineering tasks after the February model updates.