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Article 11h ago 4

One Log Line Costs journald 50KB of Disk Writes

Block-layer measurements finally prove the write amplification maintainers dismissed in 2020, and config tweaks barely help.

Lenn Voss

Your Management Playbook Assumed Code Was Expensive

DORA, GitClear, and METR data all confirm the bottleneck moved from writing code to verifying it.

Article · 2w ago0

Cruller Picks Up the Zig Runtime Bun Left Behind

A solo fork of Bun's last Zig release tests who inherits big codebases in the age of AI rewrites.

Article · 2w ago2

Why LearnOpenGL Outlived OpenGL

Nine years after the API's final release, the best on-ramp to GPU programming still runs on it.

Article · 2w ago0

Buz Forks Bun to Prove Zig Was Fast Enough

A post-Rust-rewrite fork hits sub-second incremental builds — but speed was never the official reason Bun left Zig.

Article · 2w ago0

Why a Windows 98 CSS File Keeps Topping Hacker News

Four front-page runs in six years — 98.css endures because it's a real design system, not a gag.

Article · 2w ago5

JDK 25 Is the Last Java LTS for Intel Macs

JEP 541 deprecates the macOS/x64 port, and OpenJDK's track record says removal comes fast.

Article · 2w ago0

Buz Revives Zig-Era Bun With Sub-Second Rebuilds

A one-person fork nobody should run is still the best evidence yet that Zig's compiler turned a corner.

Article · 2w ago1

Your AI Agent Shouldn't Know Your API Keys

OneCLI injects real credentials at the proxy, so a prompt-injected agent has nothing worth stealing.

Article · 3w ago6

Harness Engineering Won't Save the Dark Software Factory

Fleet telemetry and a failed four-month experiment point to the same fix: move human review upstream, not away.

Article · 3w ago0

OpenGL Is Dead. Learn It Anyway

A frozen API keeps topping Hacker News because no modern graphics API has earned its classroom yet.

Article · 3w ago5

The 500-Line Renderer Worth Writing Yourself

Tinyrenderer keeps resurfacing because nothing else teaches what GPU APIs actually do.

Article · 3w ago0

Apollo 11's Guidance Code Is Still Worth a Close Read

The trending transcription of Luminary 099 doubles as the best free course in real-time systems design.

Article · 3w ago7

A Missing .pub File Can Lock You Out of GitHub

OpenSSH silently switches authentication flows based on a file that plays no cryptographic role.

Article · 3w ago1

Why Developers Keep Rewriting xargs

A weekend bash project hit the HN front page and reopened the shell's oldest argument: how to loop safely.

Article · 3w ago2

Jelly UI's Real Trick Isn't the Physics

The wobbly Web Components demo hides a reference-grade implementation of form-associated custom elements.

Article · 3w ago0