The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred(danielchasehooper.com)

176 points by paraboul 2 years ago | 123 comments

Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code(stephango.com)

171 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 33 comments

Diffusion models explained simply(seangoedecke.com)

123 points by onnnon 1 year ago | 25 comments

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)

80 points by martinald 6 months ago | 70 comments

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work(howbrowserswork.com)

267 points by krasun 9 months ago | 35 comments

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid(joshwcomeau.com)

187 points by amanzi 2 years ago | 27 comments

How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone(fabiensanglard.net)

324 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 41 comments

Fabien Sanglard's article recounting how the iPhone Dev Team jailbroke and unlocked the original iPhone in the summer of 2007.

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS(github.com)

108 points by arbayi 1 month ago | 37 comments

GitHub repository of example Gea applications and tools, including an app gallery for the simulator, embedded targets, GeaOS and Apple targets.

Plan mode is dead(aymannadeem.com)

537 points by jmvldz 1 month ago | 468 comments

Blog post by Ayman Nadeem arguing that plan mode in AI coding tools is obsolete, reflecting on building the Nuanced desktop coding app around planning.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools(danieldelaney.net)

773 points by cryptophreak 1 year ago | 395 comments

Blog post by Daniel Delaney arguing that chat is a poor user interface pattern for AI-powered software development tools.