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Mozilla Hacks

Llamafile’s progress, four months in

When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. The post Llamafile’s progress, four months in appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

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React Blog

React 19 Upgrade Guide

The improvements added to React 19 require some breaking changes, but we've worked to make the upgrade as smooth as possible and we don't expect the changes to impact most apps. In this post, we will guide you through the steps for upgrading apps and libraries to React 19.

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PlanetScale Blog

The MySQL adaptive hash index

If you're using MySQL, you likely have indexes that are powered by B-trees.The B-tree is a powerful data structure, and is frequently used to construct indexes in relational databases.If you are using the InnoDB storage engine, it is the only choice for your index, save for spatial indexes.However, MySQL has a secret weapon for making lookups with these types of indexes even faster: the Adaptive Hash Index, or AHI.Before jumping into how this works, let's take a few moments to review B-trees, th

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