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The Hacker Newsletter stories worth a closer look: what each article says, and what Hacker News made of it.

Issue #811

11 posts

Don't skip

  1. There's no point at which turning your brain off will work danluu.com
  2. I don't want to read what you didn't write blog.colinbreck.com

Worth your time

  1. I don't want the details michaelheap.com
  2. The senior engineer death spiral sunilpai.dev
  3. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? dynomight.substack.com
  4. Saving another 100TB of RAM blog.cloudflare.com

If you have a minute

  1. Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
  2. AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up linear.app
  3. How to Write with an LLM sockpuppet.org
  4. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design github.com
  5. The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024) datagubbe.se

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Issue #810

10 posts

Don't skip

  1. Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? lucumr.pocoo.org
  2. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped josprague.com

Worth your time

  1. We know what a world without work looks like asteriskmag.substack.com
  2. Backups Aren't Simple filipovski.net
  3. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea notnottalmud.substack.com

If you have a minute

  1. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks ohhelloana.blog
  2. Doing Everyone Else's Job yosefk.com
  3. The most important product decision is what you don't build liamnugent.me
  4. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" evanhahn.com
  5. Most people prefer traditional architecture worksinprogress.news

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Issue #809

10 posts

Don't skip

  1. Simple Is Not Small jyn.dev

Worth your time

  1. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin shopify.engineering
  2. Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era spectrum.ieee.org
  3. Doomscrolling ourselves to death edwest.co.uk
  4. Learn Programming with OCaml usr.lmf.cnrs.fr

If you have a minute

  1. Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue opusfived.dev
  2. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
  3. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] youtube.com
  4. Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] youtube.com
  5. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks tautology.town

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Issue #808

11 posts

Don't skip

  1. The browser's main thread is expensive kciter.so
  2. Bug Blindness danluu.com

Worth your time

  1. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly babyloniantwins.com
  2. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com
  3. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven ckardaris.com
  4. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them studyfinds.com

If you have a minute

  1. How I Design with AI ref.tools
  2. Fine, I'll build my own text editor dbushell.com
  3. No AI Fridays noaifridays.com
  4. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role tucker.wales
  5. “I just chose words carefully” unsung.aresluna.org

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Issue #807

11 posts

Don't skip

  1. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer lalitm.com
  2. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore danluu.com

Worth your time

  1. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think lighthousenewsletter.com
  2. Things I want in a modern relational query language sporks.space
  3. Never Be Angry at Work seangoedecke.com
  4. Three important steps in my maturation process thomasdullien.github.io

If you have a minute

  1. What Is a Harness? earendil.com
  2. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID xusheng.dev
  3. To become a better writer, read as much as you can nappertime.com
  4. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson precastreinforced.co.uk
  5. My Friend Aaron rorz.io

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Issue #806

11 posts

Don't skip

  1. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more rhonabwy.com
  2. HTML Can Do That chrisburnell.com

Worth your time

  1. Seven books I keep close because I love them blog.plover.com
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
  3. PostgreSQL for Everything raphaelbauer.com
  4. How I over-engineered my book ben.balter.com

If you have a minute

  1. Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history horn.gg
  2. Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  3. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) rickmanelius.com
  4. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI danielvaughn.dev
  5. How does IKEA come up with names for its products? ikea.com

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Issue #805

9 posts

Don't skip

  1. Choose Boring Technology (2015) mcfunley.com
  2. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers blog.senko.net

Worth your time

  1. The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons arxiv.org
  2. Blog about things you don't understand yet seangoedecke.com
  3. Detach from your work to make it work productidentity.co

If you have a minute

  1. The Human Is the Loop brentfitzgerald.com
  2. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? blog.florianherrengt.com
  3. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers noemamag.com
  4. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics laurentiugabriel.github.io

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