Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)
322 points by todsacerdoti | 237 comments
A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.
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Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)
39 points by shakna | 10 comments
1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)
1542 points by mmsc | 400 comments
A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.
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Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python(github.com)
428 points by Kodiologist | 108 comments
GitHub discussion post announcing the release of Hy 1.0.0, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python, after nearly 12 years of development.
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)(worrydream.com)
116 points by _reza | 69 comments
Alan Kay's 1993 HOPL-II paper recounting the origins and development of the Smalltalk programming language, hosted as HTML on worrydream.com.
LISP Comes of Age (1980)(microship.com)
65 points by so-cal-schemer | 17 comments
An unpublished 1980 article by Steven K. Roberts written for Byte about the first LISP conference and AAAI conference at Stanford, with a retrospective introduction.
Getting AI to work in complex codebases(github.com)
442 points by dhorthy | 368 comments
A GitHub markdown document from HumanLayer describing advanced context engineering techniques for getting AI coding agents to work in complex codebases.
The Eternal Sloptember(geohot.github.io)
347 points by razin | 280 comments
A blog post by George Hotz arguing that adopting AI coding agents in software development is a costly mistake because their output is subtly broken.
The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)
151 points by ibobev | 88 comments
A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.