The LLMs Yearn for the Spines(buttondown.com)

11 points by zdw 1 month ago | 1 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)(buttondown.com)

306 points by swyx 1 year ago | 136 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)(buttondown.email)

146 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 47 comments

Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog(buttondown.com)

99 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 24 comments

Turing kicked us out of Heaven (2023)(buttondown.com)

30 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 25 comments

Ternary Operators(buttondown.com)

45 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 48 comments

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems(buttondown.com)

632 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 499 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that many hard LeetCode interview problems are easily solved with constraint solvers.

I prefer rST to Markdown(buttondown.email)

320 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 379 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that reStructuredText is preferable to Markdown for writing books and documentation with Sphinx.

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)

325 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 271 comments

A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)

446 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 199 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.

Have I Been Pwned 2.0(troyhunt.com)

787 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 260 comments

Troy Hunt's blog post announcing the launch of Have I Been Pwned 2.0, a redesigned version of the data breach lookup service.

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.