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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

Article URL: https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406387 Points: 123 # Comments: 78

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The End of an Athlon

Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333 Points: 143 # Comments: 57

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The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 Points: 136 # Comments: 68

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Web APIs and Batch Jobs Communicate Failure Differently

Long Story Short Web APIs can communicate failure through HTTP status codes, but batch jobs need to terminate in a way that allows the execution environment to recognize that the process has failed. In this case, I changed the error handling to throw an exception. This caused failed Lambda invocations to be reflected in the CloudWatch Errors metric, which allowed the alarm to trigger. Error handling does not end inside the application. We also need to think about whether failures can be corre

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Superpowers for Coding Agents: Turn Vague Requests Into Tested Changes

The fastest way for an AI coding agent to create expensive work is to start coding too soon. A request arrives, the agent infers the missing requirements, selects an architecture, edits several files, and produces a plausible patch. The patch may compile. It may even pass a narrow test. But it can still solve the wrong problem. Superpowers is a methodology and a set of composable skills intended to change that default. Rather than treating code generation as the first step, it asks the agent to

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