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| 61. | 20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 533 points | 2025 | author hermitcrab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Since you asked. This TV comedy included a plot point where some wedding planning software was shown to lose the seating plan. The wedding planning software was clearly…” | ||
| 62. | How to live on $432 a month in America (shagbark.substack.com) | |
| 526 points | 2025 | author keiferski showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote that to imply that the living standards of 1960 were normal in 1960, but wouldn’t be normal today. Don’t over-focus on the word universal and miss the point I…” | ||
| 63. | We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails (hardcover.app) | |
| 523 points | 2025 | author dyogenez showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been developing in Ruby and Rails for almost 20 years. Here are some of the downsides in my opinion. - The Global interpreter lock (GIL) in Ruby is less performant…” | ||
| 64. | The great displacement is already well underway? (shawnfromportland.substack.com) | |
| 517 points | 2025 | author shawnfrompdx showed up | their comment | thread
“and i didn't share it to HN, I don't hang out here. I just gotta say wow, tough crowd. i wrote this piece from an emotionally low point after another fruitless day of…” | ||
| 65. | Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (martinalderson.com) | |
| 515 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes I am aware of that and did mention it. However - what I wanted to push back in this article was that claude code was completely unsustainable and therefore a flash…” | ||
| 66. | URLs are state containers (alfy.blog) | |
| 512 points | 2025 | author ahmadalfy showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all thank you for your words about the content. I get why you might feel that way. English isn’t my first language, so I sometimes use GPT to help me polish…” | ||
| 67. | AI is stifling new tech adoption? (vale.rocks) | |
| 508 points | 2025 | author OuterVale showed up | their comment | thread
“May I request a source for that? Platform docs state:” | ||
| 68. | GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai) | |
| 508 points | 2025 | author lbeurerkellner showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting. If you are interested in learning more about MCP and agent security, check out some of the following resources, that we have created since we started…” | ||
| 69. | Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem (semgrep.dev) | |
| 493 points | 2025 | author ramimac showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here who added the VSCode stat :) I thought it was useful to include because: it can inform triage, if you use the extension you're more likely to be impacted…” | ||
| 70. | DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade (dbreunig.com) | |
| 491 points | 2025 | author dbreunig showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the beauty of DuckDB spatial is that the projections and CRS options are hidden until you need them. For 90% of geospatial data usage people don't and shouldn't need to…” | ||
| 71. | My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle (corentin.trebaol.com) | |
| 491 points | 2025 | author 5mv2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I get this view, I just think it's worth underlining how biased it is to the SF Bay area dystopian situation. I've actually gone out of my way to meet homeless in the…” | ||
| 72. | AI Engineer Reading List (latent.space) | |
| 490 points | 2025 | author swyx showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“hi! author here! putting together a list like this is intimidating - for every thing i pick there are a dozen other suitable candidates so please view this as a…” | ||
| 73. | I don't care how well your "AI" works (fokus.cool) | |
| 487 points | 2025 | author ttul showed up | their comment | thread
“and honestly when I read it, I also want to reach for the LLM.” | ||
| 74. | The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 486 points | 2025 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“I tried submitting this as a Show HN a couple times but it didn't take, so I'm happy to see some interest! I caught this just before bed, but I'm happy to take any…” | ||
| 75. | Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev) | |
| 484 points | 2025 | author kaycebasques showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for reading! The post was previously discussed 6 months ago: To be clear, when I said "embeddings are underrated" I was only arguing that my fellow technical…” | ||
| 76. | A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com) | |
| 484 points | 2025 | author tdullien showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am entirely ok with using "goal" in the context of an RL algorithm. If you read my article carefully, you'll find that I object to the use of "goal" in the context of…” | ||
| 77. | RLHF Book (rlhfbook.com) | |
| 479 points | 2025 | author natolambert showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to say that this is indeed in a good place to share, some very useful stuff, but is also very work in progress. I'm may 60% or so to my first draft. Said…” | ||
| 78. | The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela (kaveland.no) | |
| 478 points | 2025 | author rkaveland showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I will be trying out Kagi for some time. Search is worth paying money for. Thanks for the heads-up!” | ||
| 79. | The Little Book of Linear Algebra (github.com) | |
| 478 points | 2025 | author tamnd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Linear Algebra is the first book in a series I'm writing on math, computer science, and programming. You can find the index for the upcoming books here:. If the style…” | ||
| 80. | Google shared my phone number (danq.me) | |
| 471 points | 2025 | author Dan-Q showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.” | ||
| 81. | Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author Kalabasa showed up | their comment | thread
“Definitely cherry picked ;) I did deliberately pick some "bad" examples like the blue+green image, and other multicolor images. I wanted to add an upload function so…” | ||
| 82. | GPT-5 for Developers (openai.com) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author tedsanders showed up | their comment | thread
“so you can blame me. We no doubt highlight the evals that make us look good, but in this particular case I think the emphasis on telecom isn't unprincipled cherry…” | ||
| 83. | Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste (seated.ro) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author seatedro showed up | their comment | thread
“apologies, i will be adding a toggle to disable the scanline effect” | ||
| 84. | Zig's comptime is bonkers good (scottredig.com) | |
| 469 points | 2025 | author ScottRedig showed up | their comment | thread
“I was motivated to write this post after having trouble articulating some of its points while at a meetup, so that's why the goal of this post was focused on explaining…” | ||
| 85. | Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (google-research.github.io) | |
| 469 points | 2025 | author miottp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you! You're seeing that correctly. The directional bias is the result of some initial symmetry breaking and likely random-seed dependent. The version that…” | ||
| 86. | Extracting AI models from mobile apps (altayakkus.substack.com) | |
| 467 points | 2025 | author biosboiii showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I understand that its not very clear if the neural net and its weights & biases are considered as IP, I personally think that if some OpenAI employee just leaks GPT-4o…” | ||
| 87. | War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged (clientserver.dev) | |
| 462 points | 2025 | author jakevoytko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I debugged a fair number of those when I was a systems engineer in soft real time robotics systems, but none of them felt as bad in retrospect because you're just…” | ||
| 88. | DIY NAS: 2026 Edition (blog.briancmoses.com) | |
| 453 points | 2025 | author briancmoses showed up | their comment | thread
“This listing should be as close to a sure thing as you can get on AliExpress. But even then, dealing with AliExpress when things go sideways isn't always all that great.…” | ||
| 89. | O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data (sampatt.com) | |
| 451 points | 2025 | author SamPatt showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm glad to see folks find this interesting. I encourage everyone to try Geoguessr! I love it. I'm seeing a lot of comments saying that the fact that the o3 model used…” | ||
| 90. | Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (rfd.shared.oxide.computer) | |
| 449 points | 2025 | author dap showed up | their comment | thread
“Although the design of the `tokio::select!` macro creates ways to run into this behavior, I don't believe the problem is specific to `tokio`. Why wouldn't the example…” | ||
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