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| 31. | Writing a good Claude.md (humanlayer.dev) | |
| 748 points | 2025 | author 0xblacklight showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I didn’t dive into that because in a lot of cases it’s not necessary and I wanted to keep the post short, but for large monorepos it’s a good idea” | ||
| 32. | Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev) | |
| 747 points | 2025 | author rtfeldman showed up | their comment | thread
“:) I work at Zed and I like using Rust daily for my job, but outside work I also like Elm, and Zig, and am working on” | ||
| 33. | A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (bitecode.dev) | |
| 723 points | 2025 | author BiteCode_dev showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. A.m.a” | ||
| 34. | A love letter to the CSV format (github.com) | |
| 708 points | 2025 | author togakangaroo showed up | their comment | thread
“cool to see this is still getting passed around. Definitely agree there's no perfect solution. There's some escaping that seems to work ok, but that's going to break…” | ||
| 35. | iPhone dumbphone (stopa.io) | |
| 695 points | 2025 | author stopachka showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found. The counter is pretty easy to set up. Here's how it works on the blog: 1. You set up a schema: 2. And then use…” | ||
| 36. | The AI coding trap (chrisloy.dev) | |
| 685 points | 2025 | author chrisloy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree and have written about this before, though focusing a bit more on how far down the stack they might go, rather than up: Article being discussed in this thread…” | ||
| 37. | I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure (jonathanclark.com) | |
| 685 points | 2025 | author jclarkcom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes, this was written using guided AI. I consider this different than giving a vague prompt and telling it to write an article. My process was to provide all the…” | ||
| 38. | A new PNG spec (programmax.net) | |
| 672 points | 2025 | author ProgramMax showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! Feel free to ask me anything. I'll go ahead and dispel some doubts I already see here: - It isn't really a "new format". It's an update to the existing…” | ||
| 39. | I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation (sean.heelan.io) | |
| 658 points | 2025 | author seanheelan showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, I built a PoC. Yes, it triggered a KASAN report/crash.” | ||
| 40. | Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot (practicapp.com) | |
| 650 points | 2025 | author DebboR showed up | their comment | thread
“Super surprised this made hackernews It does indeed not have a carburator (I wrote this while half asleep on a plane, I meant to say that it has a mechanical…” | ||
| 41. | Go is still not good (blog.habets.se) | |
| 646 points | 2025 | author thomashabets2 showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“No, I didn't misunderstand it. Interface variables have two types of nil. Untyped, which does compare to nil, and typed, which does not. What are you trying to clarify…” | ||
| 42. | All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (danfabulich.medium.com) | |
| 639 points | 2025 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm well aware that there's no "Safari" financial division. And, yes, Apple will be just fine without Google's $18 billion, but that's because Apple can and will be…” | ||
| 43. | AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering (tomwphillips.co.uk) | |
| 632 points | 2025 | author tomwphillips showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Indeed - it would be just as fantastical to deny there has been no value from deep learning, transformers, etc. Yesterday I heard Cory Doctorow talk about a bunch of pro…” | ||
| 44. | The best programmers I know (endler.dev) | |
| 631 points | 2025 | author mre showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The site was down because I'm on Cloudflare's free plan, which gives me 100k requests/day. I couldn't care less if the site was up for HN, honestly, because traffic…” | ||
| 45. | Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org) | |
| 620 points | 2025 | author davepeck showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote this. :-) I'm a little late to the conversation (and a bit surprised to see this trending on HN) but am happy to answer any questions; I'll try to pop in…” | ||
| 46. | The maths you need to start understanding LLMs (gilesthomas.com) | |
| 616 points | 2025 | author gpjt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree 100%! The post is the basic maths for people digging in to how LLMs work under the hood -- I wrote a separate one for non-techies who just want to know what they…” | ||
| 47. | How I program with agents (crawshaw.io) | |
| 615 points | 2025 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“I like programming and I like agents.” | ||
| 48. | Please just try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com) | |
| 610 points | 2025 | author algallagla showed up | their comment | thread
“fwiw, I haven't seen anything that bothers me. And if there was originally a harsher response which I missed, well then I hope it wasn't merited. I'm pretty…” | ||
| 49. | Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter (blog.nelhage.com) | |
| 607 points | 2025 | author nelhage showed up | their comment | thread
“A fun fact I learned while writing this post is that that's no longer true! Modern branch predictors can pretty much accurately predict through a single indirect jump,…” | ||
| 50. | How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 603 points | 2025 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 51. | Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor (brutalita.com) | |
| 601 points | 2025 | author javierbyte showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm so happy to see Brutalita randomly popping up on Hacker News! I had fun building this small project, there are a few fun things I did to make this work: - The editor…” | ||
| 52. | Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games) | |
| 598 points | 2025 | author eieio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Like jchw said, this was a single-day project (although I did the writeup for it the next day). I went from 0-prototype in one sitting; I think that…” | ||
| 53. | When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” (sebastiano.tronto.net) | |
| 594 points | 2025 | author sebtron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My surprise stems exactly from the fact that for the last few years I have exclusively managed my files via a the UNIX shell, which behaves in the classical way.” | ||
| 54. | No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive (idiallo.com) | |
| 580 points | 2025 | author firefoxd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm not against against free cloud back up. I was a Ubuntu One user before it shutdown. The problem isn't even that you can disable it via the registry. The problem is…” | ||
| 55. | I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) (alexschapiro.com) | |
| 570 points | 2025 | author bearsyankees showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Not exactly sure what you are talking about — I think I found this vulnerability pretty close to when the app first went public but not sure why that makes it a scam And…” | ||
| 56. | LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab (theregister.com) | |
| 555 points | 2025 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi there. Article author here. I disagree. I think it is _much_ better than most rivals such as OnlyOffice, WPS Office, and of course MS Office itself since 2007. It's…” | ||
| 57. | A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code (sanity.io) | |
| 550 points | 2025 | author vincent_builds showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I think that's a great idea. I've considered live-streaming my work a few times, but all my work is on closed-source backend applications with sensitive code and data.…” | ||
| 58. | I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (blog.rongarret.info) | |
| 547 points | 2025 | author lisper showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA.” | ||
| 59. | Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units (isd-project.github.io) | |
| 546 points | 2025 | author kai-tub showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, I agree. It is a bit weird. On the one hand, I understand that it makes sense to have [command] [verb] [object] on a "logical" level and that viewing logs should…” | ||
| 60. | Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 537 points | 2025 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I believe the register reads are just extending the delay, although the new approach does have a side effect of reading from the hardware multiple times. I don't…” | ||
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