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I'm going back to writing code by hand
I vibe-coded a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI for 7 months, archived it, and started over. Here's what AI gets wrong when projects grow complex.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,413 posts.
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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This write-up …
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Codex for almost everything
The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.
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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.
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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a …
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Making Graphics Like it's 1993
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
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How LLMs work
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
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Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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If AI writes your code, why use Python?
For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
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If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right…
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
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Changing how we develop Ladybird
Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
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Docker is weird
I decided to make my own container runtime for fun, and even though I’m still early on, I’ve learned that Docker is weird . Here’s some weird things I learned about Docker.
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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.
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Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
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OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
OpenCV 5 is here! A massive modernization brings a graph-based DNN engine, over 80% ONNX coverage, hardware acceleration, LLM/VLM support, and a faster Python-first core. Learn why this isn't just an incremental update.
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Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.
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Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Over the past decade, the timing of PostgreSQL major releases has become very predictable: no earlier than the middle of September, and no l...
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I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
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Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
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Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Across 16 coding models, hashline’s content-hash line anchors beat patch for 14 models; the weakest models gained the most.
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Htmx 4.0
Release announcement, 2026-08-28.
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We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some…
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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font.