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Programming AIs worry me
For some inane reason, Github classifies me as a "major open source maintainer", which means I get a free copilot subscription.1 I've been using it for a...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
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What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.
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Why tail-recursive functions are loops
One story every computing enthusiast should hear is the lesson ofhow loops and tail-recursion are equivalent. We like recursivefunctions because they’re amen...
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The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Smaller Code, Better Code
I was enjoying some pizza the other day with some buddies that know a bit about my research and understand where I am coming from with regards to my own computing aesthetics. They understand that I have always pushed for the smallest code that I can get, and to simplify
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The limited value of a computer science education
I started programming at the age of 10 on my TI-82 graphing calculator. I loved video games as ...
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Null Values in SQL Queries
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Electron 3.0.0
The Electron team is excited to announce that the first stable release of Electron 3 is now
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
Trust me, there's a reason for this
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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Nix and NixOS, my pain points
Posts and writings by Rémy Grünblatt 🍃
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An LLM does not need to understand MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has became the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief your LLM does not need to understand MCP.
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Two kinds of vibe coding
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
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On Hacking
In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker".
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Error Stacking in Rust
How to handle and report errors effectively in Rust applications is a common question. This blog shares our experience organizing variant types of Error in a complex system like GreptimeDB, from how an error is defined to how to log the error or present it to end-users. Such a system is composed of multiple components…
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The unbearable slowness of AI coding
I’ve been coding entirely with Claude Code for the past two months. At first it was exhilarating. I was speeding through tasks. I was committing like mad.
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A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
And it was so avoidable! The bug was from a piece of dead code, left over from the previous Ariane 4 mission a decade before.
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Using Makefile(s) for Go
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
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Sustainability with Rust
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
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Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
The .NET team has been working on a new experiment called async2, which is a new implementation of the async/await pattern that is designed to be more efficient and more flexible than the current implementation. It started with green threads and ended with an experiment that moves async and await to the runtime. This…