SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle(arstechnica.com)

228 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 308 comments

The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents(arstechnica.com)

234 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 255 comments

The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit noises(arstechnica.com)

6 points by MC995 2 years ago | 1 comments

Following lawsuit, rep admits "AI" George Carlin was human-written(arstechnica.com)

40 points by rntn 2 years ago | 12 comments

NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues(arstechnica.com)

278 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 384 comments

Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)(blog.danslimmon.com)

118 points by lngarner 3 years ago | 71 comments

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas(wangcong.org)

560 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 431 comments

Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.