100x Developers(jcarreras.es)
32 points by krenel | 33 comments
A personal blog post questioning claims of AI-enabled "100x developers," arguing such multipliers only apply in narrow cases and that 2x team gains are already great.
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JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)
102 points by dmit | 22 comments
Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller in his vic-2350 project.
JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)
5 points by raphlinus | 1 comments
Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller for his vic-2350 project.
Adapting CPython for Yk(tratt.net)
74 points by frostbyte7 | 5 comments
Laurence Tratt's blog post describing how CPython was adapted for yk, a meta-tracing JIT generator for C interpreters, with benchmark comparisons against CPython and its JIT.
Composable SQL(borretti.me)
247 points by earnestinger | 120 comments
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Why bother with argv[0]?(wietzebeukema.nl)
236 points by wietze | 232 comments
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606 points by signa11 | 266 comments
A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.
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A hacker's guide to language models [video](youtube.com)
749 points by rrampage | 35 comments
YouTube video by Jeremy Howard titled "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models," a code-first introduction to using and understanding LLMs.
C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions(cppstories.com)
128 points by ibobev | 118 comments
A C++ Stories blog post introducing C++26 contracts, covering preconditions and postconditions.
open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI(codeberg.org)
11 points by smartmic | 2 comments
A Codeberg repository listing alternatives to FOSS projects that use or support LLMs/AI, plus tips for requesting better policies or forking.
CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch(cs336.stanford.edu)
529 points by kristianpaul | 49 comments
Course homepage for Stanford's CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (Spring 2026), listing instructors Tatsunori Hashimoto and Percy Liang and course staff.
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)
56 points by tkhattra | 61 comments
Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.