Trump imposes a $100K annual fee on H-1B visas, a move that makes U.S. developers cheaper to hire than foreign workers for the first time in decades.

US President Donald Trump, in his latest efforts to crack down on immigration, signed a proclamation imposing a $100,000 (over Rs 88 lakh) fee on H-1B visa applicants.

US President Donald Trump, in his latest efforts to crack down on immigration, signed…

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Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me. And I think it’s making me worse at the thing I’ve loved doing for twelve years.I can cl...

Posted by alefore - 106 votes and 31 comments

I’ve just shipped StringZilla v4, the first CUDA-capable release of my SIMD-first string processing library.
Which in English means that it is now fast not only on CPUs, but also on GPUs!

I’ve wanted to add ROCm-acceleration for AMD GPUs 🤦‍♂️
I’ve wanted…

Posted by hexaredecimal - 135 votes and 127 comments

To my great surprise, one of the biggest current users of my StringZilla library in the Python ecosystem is one of the world’s most widely used Image Augmentation libraries - Albumentations with over 100 million downloads on PyPI, growing by 5 million every…

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said he's been vibe coding and showing the results to his company's engineers.

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work…

Posted by ewaldbenes - 155 votes and 142 comments

Dig in to the original goals of the Postgres academic project at UC Berkeley and how they shaped the Postgres we use today.

Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.

Discover how Infobip's infrastructure, which handles over 10 billion daily messages, evolved through a decade of challenges and innovation.

There are books & many articles online, like this one arguing for using Postgres for everything. I thought I’d take a look at one use case - using Postgres instead of Redis for caching. I work with APIs quite a bit, so I’d build a super simple HTTP server…

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Posted by GarethX - 98 votes and 9 comments

Your biggest mentor isn't someone else. It's the person you used to be.