The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product(kanfa.macbudkowski.com)

219 points by kiwieater 7 months ago | 291 comments

SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens(zknill.io)

30 points by zknill 10 months ago | 36 comments

How I think about Kubernetes(garnaudov.com)

66 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 38 comments

What’s getting pwned right now(pwn.watch)

353 points by mrkd 4 days ago | 165 comments

pwn.watch is a live feed of ongoing security incidents and CVEs, listing affected software, patch status, fixed versions, and source advisories.

I ported pigz from Unix to Windows(blog.kowalczyk.info)

72 points by speckx 1 year ago | 31 comments

Made an app that summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News(hackerdigest.upstash.app)

16 points by hezarfendd 2 years ago | 6 comments

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

Cognitive load is what matters(minds.md)

1649 points by zdw 1 year ago | 685 comments

An essay by Zakirullin arguing that reducing developers' cognitive load should be the main goal when writing and designing software.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

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.