“The Story Of C++: The World's Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story”, CultRepo (www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7t...). “C++: The Documentary Released Today”, Herb Sutter (herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840... #CPP #Video #CPlusPlus

Whatay fascinating article on the sudden disappearance of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the USA: “The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess”, Thomas Stafford (explosion-scratch.github.io/locusts/). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4828... #Locusts #USA #Grasshoppers #Insects #Extinction

Very interesting 🧐: “Using AI To Write Better Code More Slowly”, Nolan Lawson (nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/u...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/lkv0sh/usi... #AI #Programming #VibeCoding #AIAssistedCoding #BugFixing #Polish #Quality #SoftwareEngineering

Cool: “The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention”, Filip Pizlo (fil-c.org/calling_conv...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/5mnt43/fil... #C #Compilers #Programming #FilC #MemorySafety #Capabilities #CallingConvention #ABI #Optimization #Efficiency #Speed

“C Constructs That Still Don’t Work In C++ — And A Few That Changed”, Josh Lospinoso (lospino.so/blog/c-const...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4822... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/za6jjo/c_c... #C #CPP #CPlusPlus #Programming #Compatibility #Standards

LLM-generated? 🧐 Useful tips for beginners nevertheless: “Beyond The Prompt: Claude Code”, Arian Patel (arps18.github.io/posts/claude...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4828... #AI #AIAssistedCoding #SoftwareEngineering #LLMs #ClaudeCode #Claude #VibeCoding

Unsure about #PMF, but they’ve surely found a way to squeeze profits from #AI: “I Think Anthropic And OpenAI Have Found Product-Market Fit”, Simon Willison (simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829... #LLMs #Business #Profits #ProductMarketFit #Enterprise #API

“C Array Types Are Weird”, Anselm Schüler (anselmschueler.com/blogposts/20...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/26wkdp/dis... #C #Programming #Types #Arrays #Pointers #Rants

Instagram “Instants” must be their most #WTF feature launched in recent times. 😒 Why was it needed after Posts, Reels, and Stories? 🙄 Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. A intrusive solution looking for a problem. #Instagram #Instant #SocialMedia

I face this dilemma at work all the time 😕: “Don’t Answer The First Question”, Lalit Maganti (lalitm.com/post/dont-an...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/dt92ad/don... #Work #Questions #XYProblem #Clarity #Intent #Exposition

😥: “Everything In C Is Undefined Behavior”, Thomas Habets (blog.habets.se/2026/05/Ever...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/dtcfd6/eve... #Programming #C #CPP #CPlusPlus #UB #UndefinedBehavior #Standards

Bold! The abbreviations in the names are…ugh: “sp.h Is The Standard Library That C Deserves”, ‘tspader’ (spader.zone/sp/ and github.com/tspader/sp). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/cvwsxk/sp_... #C #Programming #StandardLibrary #LibC

I didn’t realize that #Uber also allows you to have a constant (and customizable) PIN for your rides, like #Rapido. Yay! In the app, go to: Account -> Settings -> PIN Verification to change it. #Taxi #Cabs #India #LPT #PSA

So true 😢: “The Quiet Grief Of Adult Friendship”, Pranav Jain, The Times Of India (timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...). #Friendship #AdultFriendship #Friends #Life #Loneliness #Grief #Relationships #Companionship

Why is this so sexist? It should be titled “Meet The Sad Spouses Of AI” 😒: “Meet The Sad Wives Of AI”, Wired (www.wired.com/story/meet-t... or archive.is/qsebs). #AI #Marriage #Unhappiness #Obsession #Relationship #Neglect #Life #Society

A nice #story inspired by Ken Thompson’s “Reflections On Trusting Trust”: “Coding Machines”, Lawrence Kesteloot (www.teamten.com/lawrence/wri...). #Programming #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Virus #Compilers #SciFi #AI

Intriguing: “Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake”, The C3 Programming Language (c3-lang.org/blog/unsigne...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4798... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/bzltqt/uns... #Programming #Arithmetic #Integers #Math #PLDI #C3 #Unsigned #Signed #Errors

Nifty: “All Of The String Types”, Lemon Donnell (lambdalemon.gay/posts/string...). Via Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/khf0ye/all... #Programming #PLDI #String #ProgrammingLanguages #Unicode #UTF8 #Characters

“What Came After 486?”, Dave Farquhar (dfarq.homeip.net/what-came-af...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748... #Intel #AMD #CPU #Hardware #IBM #PC #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #OldSkool

“The Oxford Comma - Why And Why Not”, Deborah Court (www.deborahcourtbooks.com/post/the-oxf...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753... #Comma #OxfordComma #English #Grammar #Punctuation #Language #Rules

Very nifty: “Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)”, Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/xpx9vi/she... #Unix #Shell #Bash #Zsh #Terminal #CommandLine #CLI #Tips

Sadly, this appears to be the future of #work now with #AI boosting “productivity” 😓: “Appearing Productive In The Workplace”, No One’s Happy (nooneshappy.com/article/appe...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4803... #Competence #FakeWork #MakeWork #Sycophancy #Productivity #Skills

A catalog of #vi and its descendants: “The Vi Family”, Mathew (lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/0...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4803... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/4wi5q4/vi_... #Vim #Editors #Unix #BSD #TextEditors #ComputerHistory

“Evolving A Codebase At Google Scale” [2024], Laurent Le Brun (laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/evolvin...). #Google #Programming #Bazel #Starlark #SoftwareEngineering #MonoRepo #LargeScaleChanges #ContinuousIntegration

I loved ❤️ the TV series: “Halt And Catch Fire”, Scott Robinson (unstack.io/halt-and-cat...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816... #ComputerHistory #CPU #Hardware #RetroComputing #ISA #HCF #HaltAndCatchFire #TV #TVSeries #IBM #Motorola

Mitchell Hashimoto on companies & individuals being under an “AI Psychosis”, making it hard to have reasonable conversations about it: hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/1... (TBC, it’s *not* an anti-AI screed.) On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815... #AI #Psychosis #DelegationOfResponsibility

The new #Spotify “disco-ball” app-icon is so 🤢🤮! #WTF were they thinking? 😠

“I’m Going Back To Writing Code By Hand”, Shiv Bhosale (blog.k10s.dev/im-going-bac...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4809... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/vokark/im_... #Programming #Coding #AI #LLMs #VibeCoding #Slop #AISlop #Architecture #ClaudeCode

🧐: “Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career”, Sean Goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com/software-eng...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4809... #AI #Career #Work #SoftwareEngineering #Obsoletion #IT #LLMs

All the tech / programming podcasts that I follow have degenerated into creating “AI this; AI that” kind of episodes. 😩 Everyone says the same things. Ugh! 😒 Thankfully the history podcasts are still interesting. 😮‍💨 What a waste. 😥 #AI #Podcasts #Tedium #Unoriginal

I’ve never been to a #Costco, but _so many_ of my Indian #NRI friends & acquaintances swear by it: “I Want To Live Like Costco People”, Taste (tastecooking.com/i-want-to-li...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805... #Shopping #Retail #USA #America #DiscountShopping #MidLife #MiddleAge

An intriguing reason for forking #Vim 🧐: “A Eulogy For Vim”, Drew DeVault (drewdevault.com/blog/Forking...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751... #VimScript #Vi #AI #LLMs #OpenSource #VimClassic #Forks

Impressive: “TurboQuant: Redefining AI Efficiency With Extreme Compression”, Amir Zandieh, et al, Google Research (research.google/blog/turboqu...). The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874 On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751... #TurboQuant #Quantization #LLMs #Vectors #Compression #Paper

Oh man! 😓 “Overcoming The Friendship Recession”, Joe Previte (joeprevite.com/friendship-r...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745... #Friends #Loneliness #Friendship #Life #MiddleAge #Initiative #SelfHelp #Advice

Interesting: “A Case Against Currying”, Emilia H (emi-h.com/articles/a-c...). Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4747... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/w2x9dq/cas... #Programming #FunctionalProgramming #FP #Currying #Rants #PLDI #Haskell

Not sure why Reuters is hell-bent on #doxxing the artist known as #Banksy and violating their #privacy 😠: “In Search Of Banksy” (www.reuters.com/investigates...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4738... #Art #Vandalism #Anarchy #Unmasking #Art #StencilArt #StreetArt #Graffiti

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

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. 👏🏽

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...