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There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/
9•zkehs•32m ago

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cebert•27m ago
If you have ever worked with low-cost offshore contractors, you know this it true…
jdw64•3m ago
The worst I have experienced: A 30,000-line .cs file. A giant monolithic program tangled together by Singleton abuse, 6-deep nested if/else blocks, and the list goes on. There are too many to count. And this is a sight I see every single day. This is the exact landscape I encounter at many companies when I go in for maintenance work. Encapsulation completely shattered as a direct reflection of the subcontracting power hierarchy, among other things...

Review: Sid Meier's Memoir by Sid Meier

https://www.ybrikman.com/blog/2026/06/18/sid-meier-memoir/
1•adrianwaj•1m ago•0 comments

Ancient Coins Reveal a Wealth of Information About the Roman Republic

https://nautil.us/ancient-coins-reveal-a-wealth-of-information-about-the-roman-republic-1284847
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

AI Philosophy Competition

https://www.zacharygoodsell.com/ai-philosophy-competition
1•m-hodges•2m ago•0 comments

Two Nations, an Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space

https://www.wired.com/story/two-nations-horrible-accident-urgent-need-laws-of-space-lachs-moot/
1•voxleone•3m ago•0 comments

How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen
1•stevenwoo•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Show HN Hall of Fame

https://artifactbin.dev/@vivek/6bXsx3-vol-2-show-hn-hall-of-fame
2•nuwandavek•7m ago•0 comments

Donut Labs Solid State Battery Looks Like It May Be Real After All

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/09/04/donut-lab-reveals-amazing-performance-tests/
1•gumby•7m ago•0 comments

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
1•jger15•8m ago•0 comments

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind [pdf]

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/A_Wandering_Mind_Is_an_Unhappy_Mind.pdf
1•aray07•10m ago•0 comments

Discovery of a new IRC bot message board (2018)

https://drewdevault.com/blog/How-to-write-an-IRC-bot/
1•Zsfe510asG•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Functional options design pattern and implementation in Go

https://archetechmes.vercel.app/blog/functional-options-go
1•rzwsan•11m ago•1 comments

Sears is alive and well in Mexico

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/09/05/sears-isnt-dead-its-alive-well-mexico/
1•bookofjoe•11m ago•1 comments

GPT 6 Astra for Developers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xp1XWmJ_Wo
1•s3p•12m ago•1 comments

Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-inference-distributed-computing
2•pseudolus•14m ago•0 comments

Org chart is your cycle time

https://keithbrown.com/org-cycle-time/
2•optimizethis•16m ago•1 comments

SpaceX is building its own gas turbine blade factory to power AI faster

https://qz.com/spacex-turbine-blade-foundry-ai-data-centers-090226
1•JumpCrisscross•16m ago•2 comments

"Kill All Humans"

https://bsky.app/profile/ruggsea.eurosky.social/post/3murj32dbvs26
2•Bluestein•16m ago•0 comments

Processing power for folding@home has dropped significantly

https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
1•alightsoul•17m ago•1 comments

Almost Anyone Can Make Money Selling Electricity with AI and Batteries

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-03/consumers-profit-off-solar-batteries-selling-e...
2•JumpCrisscross•18m ago•1 comments

New urinal designs prevent messy splashes onto legs and the floor (2022)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/urinal-designs-no-splash-backs-university-water...
1•fidotron•21m ago•0 comments

NYC law could force Uber and Lyft to keep dangerous drivers on the road

https://reason.com/2026/09/05/nyc-law-could-force-uber-and-lyft-to-keep-dangerous-drivers-on-the-...
2•leephillips•21m ago•1 comments

Separating Parsing Expression Grammars Using Cell-Probe Lower Bounds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29592
1•pcfwik•22m ago•0 comments

Prompt Evolution Engine

https://vahetorozyan.com/prompt-engineering-engine/
2•VaheT•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does it seem like the game industry is stagnating?

1•ishener•22m ago•1 comments

Run AI in the Browser: A Practical Guide to Transformers.js

https://tighten.com/insights/run-ai-in-the-browser-a-practical-guide-to-transformers-js/
1•eustoria•23m ago•0 comments

PJM drops Oklo advanced nuclear project from interconnection study cycle

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-oklo-advanced-nuclear-ferc-interconnection/829150/
1•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

Patching Qualcomm QHEE to Get KVM Running on Arduino Uno Q

https://jaseg.de/blog/kvm-on-qualcomm-arduino-uno-q/
1•ahlCVA•24m ago•0 comments

Turn your AI into a world-class designer

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world
2•eustoria•25m ago•0 comments

Drawesome: Drawing Toolbar for React

https://benji.org/drawesome
1•eustoria•25m ago•0 comments

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/
11•zkehs•32m ago•2 comments