Hyrum’s Law in Golang(abenezer.org)

294 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 176 comments

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

Honey, I shrunk the NPM package(jamiemagee.co.uk)

141 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 62 comments

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git(nelson.cloud)

553 points by FergusArgyll 4 months ago | 167 comments

A short blog post explaining three ways to ignore files in Git: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and the global ~/.config/git/ignore file.

Porting Go's strings package to C(antonz.org)

53 points by ingve 6 months ago | 5 comments

I regret migrating to Codeberg(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

448 points by boramalper 3 months ago | 358 comments

Personal blog post explaining the author's regret about moving projects to Codeberg after its new terms restricting which projects are welcome.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

552 points by vmg12 7 months ago | 248 comments

Ask HN-style post warning that GitHub will use private repos for Copilot AI training unless users opt out by April 24, with a link to the settings page.

Why GitHub won(blog.gitbutler.com)

582 points by hardwaregeek 2 years ago | 453 comments

Blog post by GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon explaining how GitHub became the dominant code hosting platform.

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories(twitter.com)

527 points by splenditer 5 months ago | 289 comments

A post on X from GitHub stating it is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories, with no current evidence of impact to customer data.

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS(github.blog)

75 points by torutofu 1 month ago | 64 comments

GitHub Engineering blog post describing how github.com fully migrated away from CSS-in-JS to improve site performance by shipping static CSS.