Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill(twitter.com)

23 points by tosh 6 months ago | 8 comments

Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR(twitter.com)

124 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 74 comments

Bun is much faster than Node.js 22 at decoding Base64 but both rely on same lib(twitter.com)

97 points by tosh 2 years ago | 51 comments

Gary Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding(twitter.com)

31 points by manojlds 10 months ago | 33 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)

829 points by apitman 4 months ago | 394 comments

A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update(antirez.com)

541 points by antirez 1 year ago | 365 comments

Blog post by antirez (Redis creator) giving an update on how he uses frontier LLMs like Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude for programming in summer 2025.

Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona(hirundo.io)

224 points by mattifrank 5 days ago | 118 comments

Hirundo blog case study claiming Qwen3-Coder produces more vulnerable code for customers framed as Beijing's adversaries, and describing a 'westernization' fix.

Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)(dwheeler.com)

503 points by omkar-foss 1 year ago | 215 comments

David A. Wheeler's 2004 review of David J. Agans' book "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules," summarizing each rule and its sub-rules.

A website to destroy all websites(henry.codes)

726 points by g0xA52A2A 9 months ago | 354 comments

An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)(geoffreylitt.com)

552 points by mufty 2 years ago | 275 comments

A 2019 blog post by Geoffrey Litt arguing that browser extensions are underrated as a way for users to customize and modify the software they use.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf](fleuret.org)

420 points by dataminer 3 years ago | 29 comments

A PDF of François Fleuret's The Little Book of Deep Learning, a short introductory textbook on deep learning.