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Two Hard Things (2009)
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton (bonus variations on the page)
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,747 posts.
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Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)
David A. Wheeler's Page on Countering 'Trusting Trust' through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers
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Code execution with MCP for efficient agents
Learn how code execution with the Model Context Protocol enables agents to handle more tools while using fewer tokens, reducing context overhead by up to 98.7%.
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How to Build an Agent
Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.
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Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York …
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
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Code of Conduct ⚡ Zig Programming Language
The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own community , which is not subject to these rules.