Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro(blog.tansu.io)

93 points by rmoff 9 months ago | 20 comments

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk(noelrappin.com)

219 points by jrochkind1 11 months ago | 124 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer(danielchasehooper.com)

155 points by dhooper 1 year ago | 44 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Sandboxing JavaScript Code(healeycodes.com)

72 points by antidnan 3 years ago | 19 comments

LLMs aren't world models(yosefk.com)

330 points by ingve 1 year ago | 189 comments

Blog post by Yossi Kreinin arguing that large language models are not world models, illustrated with examples like LLMs losing track of chess board state.

There is minimal downside to switching to open models(marble.onl)

370 points by amarble 4 months ago | 298 comments

Blog essay by Andrew Marble arguing there is little downside to switching from proprietary AI models like Claude to open models, comparing it to adopting Linux.

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster(claude.dev)

179 points by matthieu_bl 1 month ago | 113 comments

Engineering blog post from Anthropic's Claude team describing how they made claude.ai three times faster in two weeks by having Claude measure and optimize performance.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites(danilafe.com)

831 points by fabianholzer 2 years ago | 349 comments

A blog post cataloguing small convenience features the author likes in blogs and personal websites, inspired by Hillel Wayne's language microfeatures article.

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.