Cognitive load is what matters(minds.md)
1649 points by zdw | 685 comments
An essay by Zakirullin arguing that reducing developers' cognitive load should be the main goal when writing and designing software.
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Why we use our own hardware(fastmail.com)
780 points by nmjenkins | 428 comments
Fastmail blog post by founder and CTO Rob Mueller explaining why the company runs its own hardware instead of using public cloud providers.
GPT-5 is behind schedule(wsj.com)
529 points by owenthejumper | 952 comments
WSJ article, syndicated on MSN, reporting that OpenAI's GPT-5 (Orion) model is behind schedule and enormously expensive to train.
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster(avi.im)
450 points by avinassh | 85 comments
Blog post summarizing the paper "SQLite: Past, Present, and Future" and explaining how Bloom filters made SQLite analytical queries 10x faster.
Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app(github.com)
407 points by thunderbong | 88 comments
GitHub repository for Hoarder, a self-hostable app for bookmarking links, notes and images with AI-based automatic tagging and full-text search.
Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'(corelatus.com)
394 points by matthiasl | 127 comments
Corelatus blog post analyzing the telephone network signalling tones audible in a payphone call scene from Pink Floyd's 1982 film The Wall.
Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time(linkedin.com)
339 points by ladberg | 102 comments
LinkedIn post by Leonardo de Moura announcing that Cameron Zwarich, creator of Apple's Rosetta 2, is joining the Lean FRO to work on Lean full-time.
Long Term Software Development(berthub.eu)
246 points by todsacerdoti | 118 comments
Reads Causing Writes in Postgres(jesipow.com)
207 points by thunderbong | 25 comments
CodeMic: A new way to talk about code(codemic.io)
162 points by seansh | 54 comments
CUDA Moat Still Alive(semianalysis.com)
148 points by pella | 98 comments
Tokenisation Is NP-Complete(arxiv.org)
100 points by belter | 20 comments
AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild(nature.com)
77 points by bookofjoe | 32 comments
ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement(openai.com)
74 points by franze | 29 comments
JRuby with JBang(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
65 points by rockyj | 8 comments
Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite(gist.github.com)
57 points by vsroy | 34 comments
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Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?
32 points by navs | 36 comments
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Whither Dashboard Design?(surfingcomplexity.blog)
25 points by gpi | 6 comments
Scathing book reviews of 2024(lithub.com)
20 points by Caiero | 4 comments
The Riddle of Luigi Mangione(gurwinder.blog)
20 points by nth_degree | 3 comments
