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Assumptions

http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2025/07/assumptions.html
6•r4um•3d ago

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delifue•9h ago
> First is to assume that almost everything is an assumption. Second is to insert enough flexibility into the work so that only minimal parts of it are lost if your assumptions are wrong.

That's why rigid language like Rust is suitable for mature domains (like rewriting an existing app in Rust) where most things are known, instead of new and quickly iterating things (many unknown unknown). https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design

https://github.com/Deathbyteacup/fluentbird
77•skipnup•3d ago•24 comments

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/
436•marcodiego•2h ago•243 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
179•Bogdanp•7h ago•45 comments

Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck
187•chubot•9h ago•36 comments

cppyy: Automatic Python-C++ Bindings

https://cppyy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
8•gjvc•56m ago•0 comments

MARS.EXE → COM (2021)

https://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~wojtek/MARS.COM/
64•reconnecting•4d ago•17 comments

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
327•nomaxx117•9h ago•202 comments

Pascal's Scams (2012)

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2012/07/pascals-scams.html
9•walterbell•3d ago•2 comments

Gauntlet AI (YC S17): All expenses paid training in AI and $200k+job

https://www.crossover.com/jobs/5597/gauntlet-ai/ai-challenger/apply
1•austenallred•1h ago

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

https://gpuhammer.com/
206•jonbaer•13h ago•71 comments

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

https://prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hackers-destroyed-the-it-infrastructure-of-a-russian-drone-manufacturer-what-is-known/
280•doener•5h ago•172 comments

Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

https://dataramen.xyz/
15•oleksandr_dem•1h ago•18 comments

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
110•nanfinitum•11h ago•55 comments

Six Years of Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi
159•brson•10h ago•68 comments

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
515•cataPhil•21h ago•99 comments

Pixel Piranhas

https://rybakov.com/blog/pixel_piranhas/
21•spython•2d ago•7 comments

Reflections on OpenAI

https://calv.info/openai-reflections
591•calvinfo•20h ago•328 comments

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/07/07/support/
54•zdw•3d ago•14 comments

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world
317•voxadam•21h ago•107 comments

Where's Firefox going next?

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094
250•ReadCarlBarks•16h ago•371 comments

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/
383•mprast•20h ago•149 comments

Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

https://eieio.games/blog/a-million-realtime-chess-boards-in-a-single-process/
138•isaiahwp•4d ago•17 comments

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

https://go.dev/blog/fips140
170•FiloSottile•16h ago•55 comments

My Family and the Flood

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/
207•herbertl•15h ago•69 comments

The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-beauty-entrepreneur-who-made-the-jheri-curl-a-sensation
27•Anon84•2d ago•7 comments

AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive
10•ForHackernews•4h ago•0 comments

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation/
101•todsacerdoti•2d ago•9 comments

Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow
38•saikatsg•8h ago•7 comments

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
197•azhenley•3d ago•127 comments

The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1.html#SECTION00010000000000000000
122•fanf2•3d ago•33 comments