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What r/programming is talking about this week

r/programming has 6,933,715 members and 11 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 4.3 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

6,933,715members
11posts in the last 24 hours, newest 38 min ago
4.3comments an hour right now, newest 5 h ago
713points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/programming this week

java8language8system7systems6full6cekrem5github5algorithm5net5apple5openssh4password4

Top threads this week

  1. openssh on musl linux has been letting people into password-less accounts since 2016
    713 points98 comments6 d ago
  2. Do not ask "Is A a B?": Inheritance and the Is-A Trap
    243 points166 comments7 d ago
  3. Libghostty 1.0
    228 points11 comments5 d ago
  4. A faster way to calculate the date of Easter
    103 points22 comments2 d ago
  5. C# 15: Union Types, Closed Hierarchies, and the One Value™ That Isn't Any of Them · cekrem.github.io
    102 points39 comments2 d ago
  6. C64 Demo Effect Explained: The Bumpmapped Rain in Lunatico
    93 points8 comments3 d ago
  7. Modern Java at Stripe: Language upgrades as a service
    92 points7 comments6 d ago
  8. LZAV 7.1: Improved compression ratio and speed. Achieved complete C/C++ pointer arithmetic compliance. Fast Data Compression Algorithm (inline C/C++).
    88 points15 comments7 d ago
  9. Unified Grid: How We Re-Architected Slack for Our Largest Customers
    87 points19 comments4 d ago
  10. Micron - a Pascal/Oberon-derived systems language with the power of C
    79 points19 comments3 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Metal Focus Lab — Critical Mass ⚛️ | Instrumental Metal for Deep Work [50 min]
    1 points0 comments38 min ago
  2. Rust's Type System is All You Need
    1 points0 comments3 h ago
  3. eMudhra's official incident report on how they ended up with private key 4
    1 points0 comments6 h ago
  4. Google Search's foundational PageRank patent has expired. What will be the impact of this
    1 points0 comments8 h ago
  5. I made sandboxed development feel like local development
    1 points0 comments8 h ago
  6. Go Turns 17 - The Go Programming Language
    1 points0 comments9 h ago
  7. Can someone help me with java Junit
    1 points0 comments10 h ago
  8. Why We Shouldn't Trust Clocks in Distributed Systems
    1 points0 comments14 h ago
  9. There is no "Now" in Distributed Systems
    1 points0 comments16 h ago
  10. Regressive JPEGs
    1 points0 comments21 h ago
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