API Complexity Is a Lie(apichangelog.substack.com)

37 points by bpedro 2 years ago | 22 comments

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence(alilleybrinker.com)

54 points by rrampage 1 year ago | 16 comments

GitHub Actions is the weakest link(nesbitt.io)

210 points by dochtman 6 months ago | 68 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.

How rqlite is tested(philipotoole.com)

234 points by otoolep 1 year ago | 45 comments

Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux(joshmcguigan.com)

76 points by JoshMcguigan 2 years ago | 63 comments

Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor(cprimozic.net)

597 points by Ameo 2 years ago | 150 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience fixing a bug in Chromium/Google Chrome as a first-time contributor, from building the code to code review and release.

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI(boydkane.com)

477 points by beyarkay 1 year ago | 358 comments

Blog essay explaining why common beliefs about fixing bugs in regular software don't apply to AI systems like ChatGPT, aimed at technical readers.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update(api-docs.deepseek.com)

657 points by dnhkng 2 months ago | 313 comments

DeepSeek API docs changelog entry announcing the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API public beta with improved agent benchmark results.

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages(jimmyhmiller.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 24 comments

Jimmy Miller essay arguing programmers should be able to customize and change their programming languages rather than treat them as fixed artifacts.

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete(autodidacts.io)

351 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 117 comments

An essay on The Autodidacts blog arguing that troubleshooting, systematically finding and fixing causes of unwanted system behaviour, is a domain-agnostic skill.

Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

346 points by blakeashleyjr 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Tell HN post complaining that Cloudflare bot challenges block a Firefox-on-Linux VPN user from many sites, including Indeed, A2 Hosting, and Cloudflare's own forums.