Mastodawn

It is close. The #jscc26, the #JavaScript inspired but not excluding other topics #barcamp will open registration Monday, April 13th.

Are you interested to come? Well, it is just one #pullrequest away.
What? Yes, it is a pull request. The entire event is sponsored and you get in for free, you just have to show some commitment to create a PR and get all the tests to pass to get in.
Back you get the same from all other participants, commitment.

Looking forward to see you.
#jscc26 #unconference

N-gated Hacker News 5d ago

TurboQuant model weight compression now graces #Llamacpp, but only if you speak fluent Metal! 🏋️‍♂️ Meanwhile, everyone else waits for TheTom to bless us with a #CUDA port, assuming he ever emerges from the GitHub labyrinth of Pull Request 45. How many engineers does it take to compress a llama? 🤔
https://github.com/TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant/pull/45 #TurboQuant #Metal #PullRequest #HackerNews #ngated

feat: TQ4_1S weight compression (Metal only, needs CUDA port) by TheTom · Pull Request #45 · TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant

Summary TQ3_1S (3-bit, 4.0 BPW) and TQ4_1S (4-bit, 5.0 BPW) weight quantization using WHT rotation + Lloyd-Max centroids V2.1 fused Metal kernel: zero threadgroup memory, cooperative SIMD rotation...

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N-gated Hacker News Apr 1

🎉 Oh joy, another #C++ #backend for OCaml! Because what the world really needs is more ways to make the already impenetrable C++ even more unbearable! 🙄 Congrats to the brave souls ready to venture into the abyss of Pull Request 14701, where #GitHub buzzwords go to die. 🚀
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701 #OCaml #PullRequest #DeveloperHumor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated

C++ support by stedolan · Pull Request #14701 · ocaml/ocaml

This patch adds a new C++ backend to ocamlc, improving on the unincremented C currently in use by the runtime and FFI. As an example, here's a simple program that computes the prime numbers up ...

GitHub

Jakob Miksch Apr 1

idea regarding #code #review:
intentionally adding #bugs into #code to check if the #reviewer discovers them.
if the reviewer does not find them, then their #review is questionable.
of course the added bugs should be removed before merging ;-)

I am wondering if a concept like this already exists ...
#codequality #softwareengineering #quality #software #git #pullrequest #mergerequest

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Apr 1

#GitHub backs down, kills #GirhubCopilot #PR ‘tips’ after backlash
Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed #Copilot's ability to stick #ads - what it calls "tips" - into any #pullrequest that invokes its name.
GitHub VP of developer relations Martin Woodward explained in a post on X later on Monday that Copilot inserting ads into PRs isn't actually new behavior - it's been doing so in the ones it creates for a while.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests/

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Updated: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

The Register

N-gated Hacker News Mar 31

🚀 Ah, another riveting tale of a techie's underwater adventure with fork() 🌊, where the "thrilling" climax is a pull request awaiting the hallowed review. 📜 The #suspense is palpable as we wait with bated breath for the groundbreaking revelation... after next week's staging tests, of course. 😂
https://tech.daniellbastos.com.br/posts/what-fork-actually-copies/ #techadventure #fork #pullrequest #stagingtests #HackerNews #ngated

What fork() Actually Copies | Daniel's Tech Blog

Benedikt Ritter (he/him)Mar 30

Feature request: gh pr create --fill should use PR template if available...

#GitHub #FeatureRequest #PullRequest #QualityOfLifeBugFix

‎ Mar 27

#pullrequest #nigger @pwm

sayzard Mar 26

Noah Zweben (@noahzweben)

Claude Code의 클라우드 기반 auto-fix 기능이 공개됐다. Web/Mobile 세션에서 PR을 자동으로 따라가며 CI 실패를 수정하고 리뷰 코멘트도 반영해, 사용자가 자리를 비워도 PR을 항상 green 상태로 유지할 수 있다.

https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2037219115002405076

#claude #code #pullrequest #devtools #aiagent

Noah Zweben (@noahzweben) on X

Thrilled to announce Claude Code auto-fix – in the cloud. Web/Mobile sessions can now automatically follow PRs - fixing CI failures and addressing comments so that your PR is always green. This happens remotely so you can fully walk away and come back to a ready-to-go PR.

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