Great, just great. 😒:
“Good Sleep, Good Learning, Good Life” [2012], Piotr Wozniak (super-memory.com/articles/sle...).
Via HN: super-memory.com/articles/sle...
#Sleep #Health #Rest #Life #Refresh
Nice:
“I’m Coding By Hand”, Miguel Conner (miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780...
#Programming #Coding #RecurseCenter #CodingRetreat #AI #LLMs #HandCrafted #Handmade
🧐:
“It’s OK To Compare Floating-Points For Equality”, Nikita Lisitsa (lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/i...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/l6c9wi/it_...
#Math #Programming #FloatingPoint #NumericalAnalysis #Precision #Errors #Numerics
“Too Much Discussion Of The XOR Swap Trick”, Chris Jefferson (heather.cafe/posts/too_mu...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/2byom8/too...
#XOR #Bits #Programming #Optimization #Swapping #BitFiddling #Compilers #Tricks #XorSwap
Don’t tie your self-worth to your job? 🤨 Easier said than done for most of us (and it’s not deliberate) 😬:
“Layoff Thinking”, Neward & Associates (blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2026/la...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769...
#Layoffs #RIF #Work #Career #Identity #SelfWorth #Depression
“Italo Calvino: A Traveller In A World Of Uncertainty”, History Today (www.historytoday.com/archive/port...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4772...
#Books #ItaloCalvino #Calvino #Fiction #Literature #Time #Uncertainty #Communism #Fascism
“The Importance Of Being Idle”, The American Scholar (theamericanscholar.org/the-importan...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766...
#Idle #Idleness #Labor #Marxism #Work #Leisure #Capitalism #Economics
Unfortunately, it stops short of telling you *how* to use a freestanding standard library. 🤦🏽♂️
(Use `-ffreestanding` with GCC or Clang.)
Good to know what “freestanding” and “hosted” standard library mean in C++:
“Freestanding Standard Library”, Sandor Dargo (www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/t7fe6r/fre...
#Programming #CPP #Embedded #OSDev #CPlusPlus
#TIL about a *third* domain of life called “Archaea” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea).
Mind blown! 🤯
This was thanks to this episode of the “In Our Time” #podcast:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
PS: Misha Glenny has quite ably taken over from the legendary Melvyn Bragg as the host. 👏🏽
Sorry, no idea.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines indicates that the answer is “no” 🤥:
“Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?”, The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... or archive.ph/hOYMn).
On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765...
#OpenAI #AI #AGI #SamAltman #ArtificialIntelligence
“The Gold Standard Of Optimization: A Look Under The Hood Of RollerCoaster Tycoon”, Lars Thießen (larstofus.com/2026/03/22/t...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748...
#RollerCoasterTycoon #Games #GameProgramming #Programming #OldSkool #Assembly #Optimization #Speed #Efficiency
“Bitfield Pitfalls”, Michal Necasek, OS/2 Museum (www.os2museum.com/wp/bitfield-...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/xtue97/bit...
#C #Programming #BitFields #Gotchas #C89 #C11 #Bits #SystemsProgramming #Compilers
“Why The Heck Are We Still Using Markdown?”, Burak Güngör (bgslabs.org/blog/why-are...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/nn403y/why...
#Markdown #HTML #Text #Rants #CommonMark #RichText #Markup
An important update 🚨 to the #METR study on developer #productivity using #AI – instead of 20% loss 📉, they now see a 20% gain 📈 in one year 🤯:
“We Are Changing Our Developer Productivity Experiment Design”, METR (metr.org/blog/2026-02...).
On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714...
Ugh! Even after the 18.7.7 update, #Apple *still* nags you to “upgrade” to #iOS v26 though. 😒
Tim Apple, I *don’t* want that silly #LiquidGlass abomination. ✋🏽🙅🏽♂️
#Security #UX #ComputerSecurity #iPhone #iPad #DarkSword #Design #Nags #Nagging
#PSA: Apparently #DarkSword:
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
is bad enough 😱 that #Apple has finally relented and released iOS v18.7.7:
support.apple.com/en-us/126793
for #iPhones and #iPads that they were earlier forcing to use #LiquidGlass via an update to iOS v26.x.
Update ASAP.
The first of a must-read six-part series on #Microsoft #Azure 😰:
“How Microsoft Vaporized A Trillion Dollars”, Axel Rietschin (isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-micros...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/osxyaq/how...
#Cloud #Reliability #Quality #Security
True that:
“Every Dependency You Add Is A Supply Chain Attack Waiting To Happen”, Ben Hoyt (benhoyt.com/writings/dep...).
Via Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/j6uemk/eve...
On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761...
#Security #Dependencies #Programming #SupplyChainAttacks #ComputerSecurity
Fascinating – and alarming 🐝:
“The Bee That Everyone Wants To Save”, ‘The Naturalist’ (naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752...
#Bees #HoneyBees #BumbleBees #Insects #Environment #Pollination #BeeKeeping #BeeHives #BeesColonies #Flora
More interesting discussion in the HN comments:
“Why Are Executives Enamored With AI But ICs Aren’t?”, John Wang (johnjwang.com/post/2026/03...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4754...
#AI #LLMs #SoftwareEngineering #Executives #Management #Business #ICs #Leaders #Quality
“An Incoherent Rust”, ‘BoxyUwU’ (www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-inc...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/i0cskl/inc...
#Programming #PLDI #Rust #Traits #Compilers #Syntax
This 👇🏽 doesn’t actually try to explain the Central Limit Theorem – bummer:
“The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere”, Quanta (www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-tha...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4740...
#Mathematics #Probability #Statistics #Math #BellCurves
“Wayland Set The Linux Desktop Back By 10 Years”, Omar Roth (omar.yt/posts/waylan...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/way...
#Linux #Wayland #X11 #XOrg #Graphics #Desktop #Unix #Display #Rants #X #Compositor #LinuxDesktop
A nice survey of #ProgrammingLanguages that allow you to omit semicolons:
“No Semicolons Needed”, Terts Diepraam (terts.dev/blog/no-semi...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4747...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/09wmcz/no_...
#Programming #PLDI #Parsing #Lexing #Syntax #Grammar #Compilers
Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:
“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...).
H/T: Dare Obasanjo
#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work
“Why Craft-Lovers Are Losing Their Craft”, Hong Minhee (writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craf...).
Via Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/vxsjiv/why...
On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4747...
#Craft #Capitalism #Programming #AI #LLMs #AIAssistedCoding #Productivity #Tedium #Craftsmanship #Quality
💯:
“I’m OK Being Left Behind, Thanks!”, Terence Eden (shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/ghtnpx/i_m...
#FOMO #JOMO #Career #Work #LLMs #AI #Grift #TrendChasing
“And Ode To Bzip”, Alisa Sireneva (purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4737...
On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/ub7a5k/ode...
On /r/programming: old.reddit.com/r/programmin...
#Bzip #Compression #BWT #BurrowsWheelerTransform #LZ77 #Gzip #Text #Raves