The Daily Index — Wednesday, February 21, 2024 · TLDR Index

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BLOOM FILTERS

Bloom Filters are a probabilistic data structures useful for checking membership in a set with efficient space usage. They store information using bits and hash functions and offer fast membership checks. They can give false positives (claiming an item exists when it doesn't), but they never give false negatives (missing an item that exists). In the real world, Bloom filters are commonly used for caching and distributed databases.

samwho.dev · 12 min

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MODERN CLIENT-SIDE ROUTING: THE NAVIGATION API

SPAs (Single Page Applications) are defined by a core feature: they dynamically rewrite their content as users interact with them instead of the default method of loading entirely new pages from the server. SPAs are able to provide this feature via the History API, a clunky API developed long before SPAs were the norm. The Navigation API is a newly proposed API that completely overhauls this space that promises to be easier to adapt. This page describes the Navigation API at a high level with code examples on popular usages.

developer.chrome.com · 16 min

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IN DEFENSE OF SIMPLE ARCHITECTURES

Simple architectures can be surprisingly effective, even for large-scale applications. For example, Wave is a $1.7B fintech company with a CRUD app built on a Python monolith and Postgres database. The benefits of this simple architecture include lower cost, easier maintenance, and faster development. There are some areas where complexity is unavoidable, such as telecom integrations. Simple architectures are a good choice for many businesses, especially those that are not ad-supported or businesses without high traffic levels.

danluu.com · 9 min

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PLANNER PROGRAMMING BLOWS MY MIND

Picat is a research language that combines logic programming, imperative programming, and constraint solving. “Planning" in Picat is when the program finds variable mutations to reach a desired end state. Instead of defining algorithms, Picat defines starting states, actions, and final states, allowing the program to find solutions through mutations. Planning helps minimize cost and is best used for applications in AI, robotics, and video games.

hillelwayne.com · 7 min

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CODING INTERVIEWS ARE EFFECTIVE

Coding interviews are effective for companies despite their limitations because they help minimize the risk of hiring bad candidates. While there are downsides to coding interviews, like pressure and filtering out good candidates who don't perform well, they can be useful for assessing a candidate's problem-solving skills and their potential as a future teammate. Automated assessments aren’t as reliable as they lack human interaction and can’t always catch cheating.

pcloadletter.dev · 2 min

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VALVE MAKES ALL STEAM AUDIO SDK SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE UNDER APACHE 2.0 LICENSE

Valve has made the Steam Audio SDK fully open-source, with plug-ins included. Steam Audio is an immersive audio solution for games and VR. It has real-time sound propagation, VR integration, and 3D audio capabilities. There are plug-ins to make it compatible with Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engines.

phoronix.com · 1 min

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ADDING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TO A 24 YEAR OLD GOVERNMENT WEBSITE WITH USERSCRIPTS

This author spent a year cleaning medical device data from the FDA's 510k database website. The website's interface was outdated and lacked functionalities like fuzzy search and keyboard shortcuts. To save time and improve their workflow, the author wrote userscripts to automate repetitive actions by adding shortcuts for opening search, focusing on search input, and copying device ID.

wcedmisten.fyi · 7 min

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YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING WITH GPTS AT WORK

This article provides twenty examples of how people are using custom GPTs in the workplace to make their teams more productive. It walks through how to create a custom GPT and demonstrates some interesting real-world use cases, such as figuring out internal ownership and technical dependencies, learning from past user research studies, and grading the relevance of search results.

open.substack.com · 11 min

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WARNING: $14,000 BIGQUERY CHARGE IN 2 HOURS

Someone ran a script on BigQuery for historical HTTP Archive data and racked up a $14,000 bill for accessing 2.5 petabytes of data.

discuss.httparchive.org · 3 min

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ASK HN: HOW MANY OF YOU APPLE DEVELOPERS STILL USE OBJECTIVE C? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Various iOS and macOS developers chime in on the value of Objective C. Many believe it’s still useful to know Objective C even if their apps are primarily written in Swift.

news.ycombinator.com

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WHY IS PRETTIER ROCK SOLID?

Prettier, a code formatter, never breaks JavaScript/TypeScript code during formatting. This durability comes from its use of prior research by a prominent Haskell developer.

mrmr.io · 1 min

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NODE.JS COMMUNITY DEBATE INTENSIFIES OVER ENABLING COREPACK BY DEFAULT AND POTENTIALLY UNBUNDLING NPM

Node developers are wrestling with the decision to enable Corepack (a tool for managing package managers that lets you use npm/yarn/pnpm without having to install them) by default. This has sparked a debate about the possibility of even removing npm from the Node.js binary.

socket.dev · 10 min

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