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Building small Docker images faster

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips/
17•steinuil•14h ago

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zerotolerance•56m ago
I always like finding people advocating for older sage knowledge and bringing it forward for new audiences. That said, as someone who wrote a book about Docker and has lived the full container journey I tend to skip the containerized build all together. Docker makes for great packaging. But containerizing ever step of the build process or even just doing it in one big container is a bit extra. Positioning it as a build scripting solution was silly.
maccard•42m ago
I’m inclined to agree with you about not building containers. That said, I find myself going around in circles. We have an app that uses a specific toolchain version, how do we install that version on a build machine without requiring an SRE ticket to update our toolchain?

Containers nicely solve this problem. Then your builds get a little slow, so you want to cache things. Now your docker file looks like this. You want to run some tests - now it’s even more complicated. How do you debug those tests? How do those tests communicate with external systems (database/redis). Eventually you end up back at “let’s just containerise the packaging”.

pstuart•34m ago
Depending on how the container is structured, you could have the original container as a baseline default, and then have "enhanced" containers that use it as a base and overlay the caching and other errata to serve that specialized need.
dboreham•35m ago
Agree. Using a container to build the source that is then packaged as a "binary" in the resulting container always seemed odd to me. imho we should have stuck with the old ways : build the product on a regular computer. That outputs some build artifacts (binaries, libraries, etc). Docker should take those artifacts and not be hosting the compiler and what not.

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-...
235•guiand•4h ago•113 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
49•simonw•1h ago•21 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
143•remywang•3h ago•43 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/
159•ano-ther•4h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
52•trj•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
38•fouronnes3•1d ago•13 comments

Capsudo: Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
29•fanf2•3h ago•2 comments

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-nati...
48•andsoitis•1d ago•73 comments

50 years of proof assistants

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
16•baruchel•1h ago•1 comments

Security issues with electronic invoices

https://invoice.secvuln.info/
71•todsacerdoti•4h ago•42 comments

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/
18•stv0g•18h ago•4 comments

SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing
305•upmostly•11h ago•94 comments

Go is portable, until it isn't

https://simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt
6•khazit•5d ago•7 comments

Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Staff Front End Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/715d9646-27d4-44f6-9229-61eb0380ae39
1•ethanyu94•3h ago

4 billion if statements (2023)

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
577•damethos•6d ago•162 comments

Building small Docker images faster

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips/
17•steinuil•14h ago•4 comments

Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-pg_clickhouse
65•spathak•2d ago•25 comments

Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes

https://martianlantern.github.io/2025/09/median-filter-over-arbitrary-datatypes/
19•martianlantern•6d ago•1 comments

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
79•fleahunter•12h ago•104 comments

Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-r...
174•kernelrocks•6h ago•106 comments

C64 Maze Chomp.BAS

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev/c64-maze-chompbas/
12•ibobev•5d ago•1 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
105•ArmageddonIt•8h ago•91 comments

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft
50•signa11•4d ago•50 comments

Async DNS

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns
96•todsacerdoti•8h ago•30 comments

CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy
160•speckx•9h ago•39 comments

Microservices should form a polytree

https://bytesauna.com/post/microservices
103•mapehe•4d ago•98 comments

I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one

https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/logtape-fedify-case-study
8•todsacerdoti•9h ago•5 comments

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
51•bertwagner•4d ago•8 comments

Using secondary school maths to demystify AI

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/
94•zdw•8h ago•207 comments

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

https://fedorarepository.org/
98•cernocky•11h ago•45 comments