Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?(denyslinkov.medium.com)

106 points by rayshan 3 years ago | 101 comments

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector(medium.com)

126 points by vkatsuba 3 years ago | 32 comments

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.

Agent orchestration for the timid(substack.com)

104 points by markferree 9 months ago | 27 comments

LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux(skeptrune.com)

144 points by skeptrune 1 year ago | 66 comments

Why haven't local-first apps become popular?(marcobambini.substack.com)

456 points by marcobambini 1 year ago | 446 comments

Substack essay by Marco Bambini arguing that local-first, offline-capable apps remain rare because getting data synchronization right is surprisingly hard.

An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)(photonlines.substack.com)

476 points by gballan 2 years ago | 111 comments

A Substack post giving an intuitive, visual explanation of Maxwell's equations and the history of electromagnetic field theory.

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)(tylercipriani.com)

493 points by Delgan 1 year ago | 115 comments

A 2022 blog post by Tyler Cipriani explaining git notes, a little-used Git feature for attaching metadata to commits.

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years(nebusec.ai)

386 points by ranger_danger 3 months ago | 187 comments

Nebula Security research post (IonStack part II) detailing GhostLock, a stack use-after-free vulnerability present in all Linux distributions for 15 years.

Open source security at Astral(astral.sh)

344 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 95 comments

Astral blog post by William Woodruff describing the techniques Astral uses to secure its open source tools and their build, test, and release processes against supply chain attacks.

The Art of Money Getting(kk.org)

370 points by dxs 5 months ago | 203 comments

A Cool Tools "Book Freak" post excerpting P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting and its golden rules for making money.