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Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
23•weaksauce•1h ago

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blinkbat•38m ago
don't take this the wrong way, but -- people still use ruby?
nixpulvis•36m ago
People should. I seriously miss using it at my day job. It's not for code where type systems make things a lot more stable, but it's great for scripting and quick things. Also ORMs in ruby are truly nice, and I haven't found anything as good anywhere else.

Generally speaking Ruby has the best APIs.

andreynering•31m ago
Ruby on Rails is the GOAT. Nothing comes close in joy and productivity, even in 2026.
vidarh•18m ago
For pretty much everything. My terminal is in Ruby, with a Ruby font renderer, running Ruby shell, and my editor is in Ruby, my window manager, my file manager.

(Yes, I'm taking it a bit far; my prototype Ruby compiler is self-hosting finally, so I guess sometime in the next 20 years I'll end up booting into a Ruby kernel for no good reason...)

claudiug•6m ago
ruby and rails is the only stuff that keep me doing web development.

when I touch js, and python... I prefer ONLY AI agentic style of working.

akerl_•2m ago
What’s the right way to take this?
nixpulvis•38m ago
Would this be possible to mainline into ruby in some way?
vidarh•22m ago
From the article: "This new feature will be available in Ruby 4.1.0."
vidarh•24m ago
> More importantly, on CI systems it’s relatively common to check out code using git, and git doesn’t care about mtime

git doesn't care about mtime, but git maintains trees whose hash changes if any constituent part of the tree changes. It'd seem tempting to check for a .git and if present use the git tree to determine whether to invalidate the cache.

byroot•15m ago
Aside from the oddness of making this cache git aware, with the new implementation I suspect querying git to revalidate the cache would take longer than just rebuilding it.

We beat Google's zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanal...
1•da-bacon•52s ago•0 comments

Homeland Security's New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump's Deportation Agenda

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-t...
1•cdrnsf•1m ago•0 comments

Inferena: Local benchmark of PyTorch vs. Llama.cpp vs. Rust frameworks

http://inferena.tech/
1•kvark•2m ago•0 comments

HIPPO Turns One Master Password into Many Without Storing Any

https://spectrum.ieee.org/storeless-password-manager
1•u1hcw9nx•3m ago•0 comments

Our Longing for Inconvenience

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience
1•cdrnsf•4m ago•0 comments

David Sklansky, the 'First Nerd to Enter Poker,' Dies at 78

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/david-sklansky-dead.html
1•indigodaddy•4m ago•0 comments

Launching Ising, open models to accelerate the path to useful quantum computers

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-ising-the-worlds-first-open-ai-models-to-accel...
3•hhs•5m ago•0 comments

What Is Llms.txt and Does Your Business Need One?

https://semarkglobal.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt-does-your-business-need-one
2•alihassaan•7m ago•1 comments

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-ch...
1•tchalla•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AWS's Kiro just got an Open source Codex

https://github.com/thabti/kirodex
2•sovietism•15m ago•0 comments

Pupil dilation suggests people start solving before all numbers are in

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-mental-math-shortcut-pupil-dilation.html
2•y1n0•17m ago•0 comments

Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2017/06/classic-papers-articles-that-have-stood.html
2•gregsadetsky•18m ago•0 comments

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
2•y1n0•21m ago•1 comments

The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/17/we-are-making-a-film-about-mark-fisher-capitalist-re...
2•mellosouls•24m ago•0 comments

Robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1135416/how-robots-learn-brief-contemporary-history/
3•billybuckwheat•25m ago•0 comments

20000 Gates and 20 MIPS [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/amdahl/history/20000_Gates_and_20_MIPS_199011.pdf
2•ingve•27m ago•1 comments

Tiny Go and Rust programs appear to start equally fast (on some machines)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoVsRustStartupDelays
2•ingve•36m ago•1 comments

AI writes code 100x faster – why hasn't productivity?

https://deeptils.github.io/blog/ai-writes-code-100x-faster-productivity-hasnt/
2•deeplstm•38m ago•1 comments

British Empire: How a Small Island Took over the World

https://sheets.works/data-viz/british-empire
2•akashwadhwani35•41m ago•0 comments

Meshcore: Architecture for a Decentralized P2P LLM Inference Network

1•elyawhoo•42m ago•1 comments

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

https://blog.marcoinacio.com/posts/my-first-impressions-rocm-strix-halo/
3•random_•45m ago•0 comments

Let Sleeping CPUs Lie – S0ix

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/let-sleeping-...
1•birdculture•45m ago•0 comments

Singapore Tourism Board Launches AI-Powered Robodog Guides at Sentosa

https://www.stb.gov.sg/about-stb/media-publications/media-centre/singapore-tourism-board-launches...
1•mmarian•47m ago•0 comments

Code → Eval → HLD → LLD → Code

https://p10q.com/presentations/code_hld_lld/
1•tmsh•49m ago•0 comments

Mistral API is degrading [04/2026]

https://status.mistral.ai/incidents/page/1
1•rawland•54m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can you show me some useful AI-written programs?

3•nananana9•55m ago•2 comments

Air Is Full of DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
3•howrude•57m ago•0 comments

Mapping India's homegrown AI ecosystem – 110 apps, 22 languages, 28 sectors

https://github.com/suyash333/india-ai-ecosystem
1•golearnsap•1h ago•1 comments

I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/i-found-out-the-hard-way-that-linux-is-not-a-dad-friendly-gaming...
3•evo_9•1h ago•2 comments

Israel kills two UNICEF water truck drivers in Gaza

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-killing-two-water-truck-drivers-gaza-strip-0
9•lr0•1h ago•0 comments