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https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
21•tosh•1h ago

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dtagames•1h ago
And in #27 we find the rationale behind all LLM coding agents, "Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you."
hugo0vaz•51m ago
I think you misunderstood what the phrase actually means. You can only successfully manage or outsource a process once you understand it well enough to explain it. Therefore, most of the people doing agentic engineering are not following this Perlisim.
summa_tech•36m ago
Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you. Then, you will quickly find out your understanding was insufficient.
sriram_malhar•1h ago
This feels so quaint today. How I'd like to be back in that timeframe.
chriscbr•1h ago
Random self plug - I liked a lot of these quotes from Alan Perlis, so around a year ago I bought the domain https://perl.is/ to display them.
summa_tech•32m ago
Neat! What do you think about adding a "-2, -1, 0, +1, +2" agreement scale to each quote and showing the average instead of votes?

I think many of those are pretty subjective, and maybe not always right for everyone or for all time. But there are certainly going to be some universal pearls of wisdom, and neither of us can - by ourselves - tell which ones they are.

Bod 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
1•mooreds•30s ago•0 comments

France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/france-probes-compromise-of-gov-messaging-platfor...
1•mooreds•53s ago•0 comments

David Sacks on Anthropic export control

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171
1•satvikpendem•4m ago•1 comments

Local .NET multi-agent LLM pipeline AI therapist using a compact wire format

https://github.com/paulomac1000/hand-codechttps://github.com/paulomac1000/hybrid-therapist-ai
1•paulomac1000•5m ago•0 comments

Structured Subagents for Claude Code

https://github.com/wastedcode/truecast
1•zeppelin_7•7m ago•0 comments

Building a Tiny FUSE Filesystem

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/161/building-a-tiny-fuse-filesystem/
1•shayonj•8m ago•0 comments

Quieren meter pagos dentro de ChatGPT

https://substack.com/profile/467902996-juanlu-de-apisdom/note/c-276207917
1•ApisDom•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Peek – A Figma like DB GUI

https://getpeek.dev
2•tehrash•10m ago•0 comments

Just-World Fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy
1•moritzwarhier•12m ago•1 comments

Etechx Centre

https://etechx.co.ke/i-waited-for-a-man-who-was-never-mine
1•ndegekm•14m ago•0 comments

Shred Log – block training for skateboarding

https://blainehodder.github.io/shredlog/
1•hodder•14m ago•1 comments

FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation

2•adam_rida•14m ago•2 comments

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-ten...
5•FabCH•17m ago•1 comments

OmniCloud – Manage Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Mega and S3 in One App

https://github.com/dimartarmizi/OmniCloud
2•dimartarmizi•17m ago•1 comments

I built a contextual audio decision engine to stop loud TV ads (CEPA Logic)

https://github.com/AdBusterOfficial/Adbuster--WinApp
1•Bo_Amigo_910•18m ago•0 comments

How slot machines actually work [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8ESCmUYLY
2•sandebert•18m ago•0 comments

AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/14/ai-is-code-and-cant-be-prompted-into-being-smarter/
3•adam_rida•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I made a small helper for checking model-graded answers

https://github.com/MatteoLeonesi/claim-memory-graph-sdk
1•ML0037•19m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek's 10T USD grand strategy

https://twitter.com/bookwormengr/status/2057909493250539891
2•gmays•19m ago•0 comments

Efficacy of dopamine agonist pramipexole for anhedonic depression

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04465-9
1•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

GitHub Pages alternative with native Python

https://blog.klemek.fr/articles/2026-06-14/
1•klemek•21m ago•0 comments

Career Update – Life After Stepping Down

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1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Attack Is Taking Aim at Palantir – Novara Media

https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/01/massive-attack-is-taking-aim-at-palantir/
3•abdelhousni•23m ago•0 comments

Mlx-optiq: per-layer mixed-precision LLM quantization for Apple Silicon

https://mlx-optiq.com/
2•codelion•25m ago•0 comments

Journal–A Tale of Two Browsers

https://adactio.com/journal/22609
2•speckx•28m ago•0 comments

Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2066174269839519796
2•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

Why Agents Don't Scale: It's an Engineering Problem, Not an AI Problem

https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/2026-06-11-why-agents-dont-scale
3•dovelome•29m ago•0 comments

We Built AIventure, an AI-Powered Retro Dungeon

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3•simonpure•29m ago•0 comments

VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/11/24m-vrchat-users-data-accessed-following-cloud-br...
3•Bender•29m ago•0 comments

Fallback Font Generator

https://screenspan.net/fallback
3•microflash•32m ago•0 comments