The Hardest Tarball?(stoppels.ch)

140 points by thatslast 3 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post describing a single GNU tar-built pax archive with a sized hard link that different tar tools and libraries extract in 8 distinct ways.

Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals(concepts.laxmena.com)

29 points by laxmena 10 days ago | 2 comments

Index page of personal interactive notes explaining LLM evaluation metrics, machine learning concepts like attention, RLHF and LoRA, and search ranking methods.

Awesome repositories are no longer awesome(erikgahner.github.io)

239 points by erikgahner 8 days ago | 116 comments

A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.

Becoming a Good Engineer(0x0001.cc)

10 points by madmax108 1 year ago | 1 comments

The AI Bubble Monitor(cepr.net)

18 points by mooreds 10 days ago | 6 comments

A CEPR weekly tracker by Dean Baker comparing AI-driven stock market trends to historical averages and arguing against bailouts if the AI bubble bursts.

Composable SQL(borretti.me)

247 points by earnestinger 1 year ago | 120 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)

343 points by zzxcvb 3 years ago | 153 comments

Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.

Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

443 points by prathameshgh 1 year ago | 272 comments

Ask HN post from a new-graduate data engineer acting as tech lead at a non-tech oil company, asking how to grow without senior engineers to learn from.

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand(indigene.app)

94 points by olivierlacan 1 month ago | 16 comments

Indigene is a web app that recommends native plants supporting local wildlife based on your location, sun exposure, and soil, working offline without accounts.

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)

695 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 307 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.

How to be a -10x Engineer(taylor.town)

763 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 441 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town listing strategies for becoming a '-10x engineer' who wastes the output of ten engineers.