I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)

136 points by porridgeraisin 7 days ago | 155 comments

A LessWrong shortform comment by Arjun Panickssery arguing AI agents show poor research judgment in autonomous R&D side projects like a Scrabble engine and philosophy research.

Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)

63 points by pbohun 4 days ago | 18 comments

Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.

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A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.

Tim Peters has died(discuss.python.org)

1371 points by ayhanfuat 2 days ago | 172 comments

Discourse thread on discuss.python.org where Guido van Rossum announces the death of Tim Peters and recounts his contributions to Python, with community tributes.

Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS(lists.trustedfirmware.org)

61 points by jonesjohnson 10 days ago | 17 comments

Mailing list announcement that current Mbed TLS maintainers will stop maintaining the TLS and X.509 libraries from April 2027 unless new maintainers step in, with user replies.

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world(shubs.io)

578 points by infosecau 5 days ago | 317 comments

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20(github.com)

343 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 154 comments

GitHub repository for Peredvizhnikov Engine, a fully lock-free game engine written in C++20 and licensed under GPL-3.0.

Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript(github.com)

324 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 64 comments

GitHub repository for boardgame.io, an open-source JavaScript library for state management and multiplayer networking in turn-based games.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

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

244 points by dom96 27 days ago | 179 comments

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

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 8 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.