Why Kakoune(andreyor.st)

118 points by rc00 3 years ago | 88 comments

Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?

54 points by adam_gyroscope 10 months ago | 36 comments

Why Rust?(rerun.io)

5 points by ned_at_codomain 2 years ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't modern programming languages, like Rust, more legible?

30 points by misswaterfairy 3 years ago | 36 comments

Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?

21 points by mettamage 1 year ago | 33 comments

Programming is hard(myme.no)

85 points by ingve 3 years ago | 77 comments

Why Janet?(ianthehenry.com)

344 points by ianthehenry 3 years ago | 112 comments

Ian Henry's blog post making the case for the Janet Lisp dialect as a simple, fun language for side projects, promoting his free book about it.

Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)

638 points by wicket 1 year ago | 201 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying(acko.net)

555 points by LorenDB 7 months ago | 368 comments

Blog post on acko.net by Steven Wittens critiquing large language models as fundamentally producing falsehoods and their effects on software and culture.

Why blog if nobody reads it?(andysblog.uk)

681 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 307 comments

A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?(nolanlawson.com)

304 points by vinhnx 22 days ago | 318 comments

Nolan Lawson blog post examining why web developers often don't "use the platform" and rely on JavaScript instead of built-in browser features.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.