Forums are better than AI
A small problem : Image was not displaying despite writing the full path of the file in the markdown code…
 
I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
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Building a lightning-fast highly-configurable Rust-based backtesting system
I created a very detailed technical design doc for how I built a Rust-based algorithmic trading platform. Feel free to…
Underground Resistance Aims To Sabotage AI With Poisoned Data
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Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
That "30-40% productivity gain" claim for GitHub Copilot? Independent research from Uplevel found a 41% increase in bugs introduced into…
Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by “Obvious” Assumptions
Both incidents involve smart people doing reasonable things and systems behaving exactly as designed. Mars Climate Orbiter (1999): lost because…
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
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MySQL’s popularity as ranked by DB-Engines started to tank hard, a trend that will likely accelerate in 2026.
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Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work?
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A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent
Christine Miao nails it here: > Teams that can easily absorb junior talent have systems of resilience to minimize the…
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool, that do amazing things. But even so, they aren’t as fantastical as their creators…
Interview Coder Leaks Full Names, Addresses and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated
Interview Coder just betrayed their users and leaked their users’ full names and where they got offers on their home…
YAML? That’s Norway problem
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Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don’t have to beg engineers for help anymore
This is a bit of a vent: I've said it before and I will die on this hill: vibe coding…
You probably don’t need Oh My Zsh
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I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (and accidentally learned why most algorithms make life worse)
I was sweeping floors at a supermarket and decided to over-engineer it. Instead of just… sweeping… I turned the supermarket…
io_uring for Systems Engineers
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Software craftsmanship is dead
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One character change in Open Source Software
My latest contribution was a one-character change. I changed a String from '?' to '!', which fixed a bug downstream…
Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
In my opinion, the new stuff was bigger than the language. I didn't understand most of it. It was an…