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Modern Node.js Patterns

https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
405•eustoria•8h ago•182 comments

Writing a good design document

https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document
198•kiyanwang•7h ago•49 comments

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
296•itchyjunk•10h ago•96 comments

So you want to parse a PDF?

https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
100•UglyToad•5h ago•52 comments

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding
85•hosolmaz•3h ago•76 comments

If you're remote, ramble

https://stephango.com/ramblings
710•lawgimenez•17h ago•374 comments

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

https://acoup.blog/2025/08/01/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiia-family-formation/
79•Khaine•1d ago•0 comments

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
15•mitchbob•2h ago•14 comments

Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
7•csense•1d ago•0 comments

Welcome to url.town, population 465

https://url.town/
112•plaguna•1d ago•23 comments

Names are not type safety (2020)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/
27•azhenley•4h ago•22 comments

Learnable Programming (2012)

https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
16•kunzhi•4h ago•6 comments

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second
18•Bluestein•5h ago•16 comments

How Python grew from a language to a community

https://thenewstack.io/how-python-grew-from-a-language-to-a-community/
6•lumpa•10h ago•0 comments

"If you can rack it, you can run UniFi OS" Ubiquiti self-hosted UniFi OS release

https://deluisio.com/networking/unifi/2025/08/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-unifi-os-server-before-you-waste-time-testing-it/
40•codydeluisio•6h ago•3 comments

A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth
100•mooreds•4h ago•34 comments

Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

https://news.asu.edu/20250725-environment-and-sustainability-new-global-study-shows-freshwater-disappearing-alarming
126•ornel•7h ago•47 comments

Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

https://www.ft.com/content/cfb77a53-fef8-4382-b102-c217e0aa4b25
44•hhs•2h ago•20 comments

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vo
190•dxs•3d ago•52 comments

This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)

https://archive.irixnet.org/thisoldsgi/
71•exvi•12h ago•4 comments

Tokens are getting more expensive

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed
237•admp•16h ago•170 comments

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html
316•mdl_principle•23h ago•92 comments

Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

https://github.com/rolandoam/schematra
22•funkaster•2d ago•1 comments

System-Wide Safety Project

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/aosp/sws/
10•pieterk•1d ago•0 comments

Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers

https://www.runconverge.com/careers
1•thomashlvt•10h ago

How to make almost anything (2019)

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html
156•teleforce•16h ago•23 comments

UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/
257•anjneymidha•10h ago•105 comments

How to grow almost anything

https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25
60•car•4h ago•13 comments

The Ski Rental Problem

https://lesves.github.io/articles/ski-rental/
62•skywalqer•4d ago•72 comments

CloudGazing

https://cloudgazing.online/
18•speckx•2d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Learnable Programming (2012)

https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
16•kunzhi•4h ago

Comments

fluxkernel•2h ago
In the age of LLM powered coding copilots and agents, do programming skills still matter? Shall we focus more on design and algorithmic thinking instead? Computer science != programming, now more true than ever.
ethan_smith•13m ago
Victor's principles for making programming cognitively accessible (seeing state, time, flow) remain relevant with LLMs because they address how humans fundamentally understand systems, not just how we write code.
mettamage•1h ago
I wonder if Bret has an update, given LLMs are a thing now.
jakelazaroff•51m ago
Bret's life's work is all about direct manipulation and building mental models. LLMs are a layer between humans and our work; they make our tools less direct. My guess is that his advice about LLMs would be to not use them.
psawaya•40m ago
This might shed some light: https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relation...
patel011393•41m ago
Yes, his website shows it. Read his latest update and the footnote on the home page: https://worrydream.com/