Ranjit Mathew
@rmathew4bs.bsky.social
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Notorious procrastinator, supposed reader, and alleged programmer.
https://rmathew.com/
This is amazing 🤩: “ASCII Characters Are Not Pixels: A Deep Dive Into ASCII Rendering”, Alex Harri (
alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/vp39cr/asc...
#Graphics
#ASCII
#ASCIIArt
#GraphicsProgramming
#Programming
#TUI
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
about 13 hours ago
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Fascinating – I’ve always admired Vermeer’s paintings 🤩: “A Scientist’s Quest To Decode Vermeer’s True Colours” [2024], The Walrus (
thewalrus.ca/a-scientists...
).
#Vermeer
#Painting
#Art
#Colors
#Pigments
#Holland
#Masters
#TheDutchMasters
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A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours | The Walrus
New techniques reveal hidden details in the Dutch master’s paintings
https://thewalrus.ca/a-scientists-quest-to-decode-vermeers-true-colors/
4 days ago
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“Frameworks: The Realist Vs The Pragmatist View Of Epistemology” [2024], Aeon (
aeon.co/essays/the-r...
).
#Philosophy
#Epistemology
#Knowledge
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The realist vs the pragmatist view of epistemology | Aeon Essays
Knowledge is often a matter of discovery. But when the nature of an enquiry itself is at question, it is an act of creation
https://aeon.co/essays/the-realist-vs-the-pragmatist-view-of-epistemology
4 days ago
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“Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism” [2024], Persuasion (
www.persuasion.community/p/why-you-sh...
).
#Liberalism
#Illiberalism
#Politics
#Philosophy
#Tolerance
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Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism
We need to get better at standing up for the greatest social technology ever devised.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-you-should-feel-good-about-liberalism
4 days ago
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Some hard truths here 👇🏽: “Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail”, Lalit Maganti (
lalitm.com/post/why-sen...
). Via Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/pddded/why...
On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4664...
#Work
#Influence
#SeniorEngineer
#StaffEngineer
#InfluenceWithoutAuthority
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that p...
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
5 days ago
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🤯: “The Lost Generation” [2025], Compact (
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
). H/T: Ananth
#USA
#DEI
#Discrimination
#Diversity
#Millennials
#GenY
#GenX
#Journalism
#CuitureWars
#Racism
#Career
#Hiring
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The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
5 days ago
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👌🏽👇🏽: “21 Lessons From 14 Years At Google”, Addy Osmani (
addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/k4mejj/21_...
#Google
#Lessons
#Wisdom
#Experience
#SoftwareEngineering
#Programming
#Career
#Advice
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
6 days ago
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How the Unix file-system hierarchy cargo cult was born 🥸: “Understanding The bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin Split” [2010], Rob Landley (
lists.busybox.net/pipermail/bu...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/vitm3g/und...
#Unix
#FileSystem
#ComputerHistory
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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
6 days ago
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😓: “std::move Doesn’t Move Anything: A Deep Dive Into Value Categories”, Mohammed Ifkirne (
0xghost.dev/blog/std-mov...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/gopuzu/std...
#Programming
#CPP
#CPlusPlus
#StdMove
#Efficiency
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std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
https://0xghost.dev/blog/std-move-deep-dive/
6 days ago
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Nice: “LLVM: The Bad Parts”, Nikita Popov (
www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/L...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/8nwjov/llv...
#LLVM
#Compilers
#OpenSource
#OSS
#Rants
#SoftwareEngineering
#CompilerEngineering
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LLVM: The bad parts
https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
6 days ago
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“What Happened To WebAssembly”, ‘EmNudge’ (
emnudge.dev/blog/what-ha...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/elj9pq/wha...
#WebAssembly
#WASM
#JavaScript
#WebDev
#JS
#VM
#VirtualMachine
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What Happened To WebAssembly
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
6 days ago
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“The Late Arrival Of 16-Bit CP/M”, Nemanja Trifunovic (
nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-a...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/nr6mqg/lat...
#ComputerHistory
#DRI
#PC
#CPM
#PLI
#IBM
#Microsoft
#DOS
#BIOS
#SoftwareEngineering
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The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M
How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cpm
14 days ago
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Beautiful: “The Unbearable Joy Of Sitting Alone In A Café”, Candost Dagdeviren (
candost.blog/the-unbearab...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648...
#Coffee
#Solitude
#Cafe
#MeTime
#FOMO
#JOMO
#Attention
#Distractions
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The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in A Café
Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.
https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
16 days ago
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😬😓: “Adam Smith Is Misinterpreted And His Influence Overstated”, The Economist (
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
or
archive.is/hQpRa
).
#Economics
#Capitalism
#FreeMarkets
#AdamSmith
#TheWealthOfNations
#Legacy
#Books
#InvisibleHand
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Adam Smith is misinterpreted and his influence overstated
The most famous book in economics is less revolutionary than you think
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/adam-smith-is-misinterpreted-and-his-influence-overstated
18 days ago
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The sad reality of the persistent discrimination & prosecution of
#dalits
in
#India
extending to their food-habits: “From Honeycomb Curry To Blood Fry: India’s ‘Untouchable’ Cooking”, The Economist (
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
or
archive.is/VAi7A
).
#Food
#Casteism
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From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
The hidden joys of a cuisine shaped by cruelty
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/from-honeycomb-curry-to-blood-fry-indias-untouchable-cooking
18 days ago
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Moderate
#drinking
should be fine 🍸 for those who can metabolize
#alcohol
, the killjoys at the WHO notwithstanding 😒: “How Humankind’s 10m-Year Love Affair With Booze Might End”, The Economist (
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
or
archive.is/QUCwr
).
#Buzz
#Health
#Life
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How humankind’s 10m-year love affair with booze might end
Civilisation was built on alcohol. Technology may sober us up
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-humankinds-10m-year-love-affair-with-booze-might-end
18 days ago
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A hilarious read 🤭 about the sad reality for many men trying to court women 😬 getting conned by pick-up artists 😠: “What The Economist Discovered At Dating Bootcamp”, The Economist (
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
or
archive.is/g5L88
).
#Dating
#Men
#PickUp
#Seduction
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What The Economist discovered at dating bootcamp
For some men, women are baffling creatures, apparently
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/what-the-economist-discovered-at-dating-bootcamp
18 days ago
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informative article with great examples 👌🏽👇🏽📸: “What An Unprocessed Photo Looks Like”, Maurycy Z (
maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/nqawul/wha...
On /r/photography:
old.reddit.com/r/photograph...
#Photography
#Cameras
#Images
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What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)
https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
19 days ago
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This is why even as an
#introvert
& a
#homebody
, I can’t work fully remote without a fall-back for
#SocialLife
🙁: “How I Rebooted My Social Life”, James O’Malley (
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4645...
#WFH
#Community
#RemoteWork
#Life
#Work
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How I rebooted my social life
Some self-help for the New Year
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
19 days ago
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My review of the book “The Rose Field” by Philip Pullman, which is the last in “The Book Of Dust” trilogy of books:
rmathew.com/2025/trf.html
#Books
#Review
#BookReview
#TheRoseField
#TheBookOfDust
#HisDarkMaterials
#WebSite
#Plug
#Fantasy
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“The Rose Field”
https://rmathew.com/2025/trf.html
21 days ago
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In which Rob Pike doesn’t appreciate an unbridled LLM spamming him 😬:
bsky.app/profile/robp...
On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/n4kxdf/rob...
#RobPike
#AI
#AIVillage
#LLMs
#Rage
add a skeleton here at some point
24 days ago
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Apple is deliberately holding back iOS 18.7.3 from newer iPhones to force us to upgrade to iOS 26 (with its Liquid fricking Glass & other bugs):
support.apple.com/en-us/125885
The update fixes critical security issues.😰 What a user-hostile behavior!😡
#Apple
#iOS
#LiquidGlass
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About the security content of iOS 18.7.3 and iPadOS 18.7.3 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of iOS 18.7.3 and iPadOS 18.7.3.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/125885
27 days ago
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😈: “AMD First Entered The CPU Market With Reverse-Engineered Intel 8080 Clone 50 Years Ago — The Am9080 Cost 50 Cents Apiece To Make, But Sold For $700”, Tom’s Hardware (
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637...
#AMD
#Intel
#CPU
#Hardware
#Espionage
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AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago — the Am9080 cost 50 cents apiece to make, but sold for $700
In 1975, AMD could make these processors for 50 cents and sell them for $700, providing a great financial springboard to establish the company in PC CPU making.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-first-entered-the-cpu-market-with-reverse-engineered-intel-8080-clone-50-years-ago-the-am9080-cost-50-cents-apiece-to-make-but-sold-for-usd700
27 days ago
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🌞: “‘It’s A Moment Of Death And Rebirth’: The Ancient Monuments Saluting The Winter Solstice”, BBC (
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635...
#Solstice
#WinterSolstice
#Sun
#Art
#Architecture
#History
#Sculpture
#LandArt
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'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251219-the-ancient-monuments-saluting-the-winter-solstice
28 days ago
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“D-Bus Is A Disgrace To The Linux Desktop”, Rafał ‘Vaxry’ Kucharski (
blog.vaxry.net/articles/202...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4627...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/e62vku/d_b...
#Linux
#FreeDesktop
#DBus
#Hyprtavern
#GNOME
#Programming
#CPlusPlus
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Vaxry's Blog
A programming blog written by Vaxry.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks
about 1 month ago
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What a comprehensive post 🤯 – needs a more in-depth reading later 👇🏽👌🏽: “No Graphics API”, Sebastian Aaltonen (
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4629...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/wopu8o/no_...
#Graphics
#GPU
#GraphicsProgramming
#Vulkan
#DirectX
#Metal
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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
about 1 month ago
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Jeff & Sanjay are
#programming
gurus 🫡 – this 👇🏽 is solid advice 👌🏽 (I suggested minor edits): “Performance Hints”, Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat, Google (
abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/qelpuh/per...
#Google
#Performance
#ABSL
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abseil / Performance Hints
An open-source collection of core C++ library code
https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html
about 1 month ago
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Ah, the good old “thrives in ambiguity” trait in senior engineers – for many folks, this goal itself becomes ambiguous 😐: “What Actually Makes You Senior”, Matheus Lima (
terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/w...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632...
#Work
#Career
#Performance
#Appraisals
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What Actually Makes You Senior
The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
about 1 month ago
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#CPU
and
#GPU
manufacturers are *terrible* at naming them and associated chipsets, slots, etc. causing maximal confusion for consumers 😡: “Getting Bitten By Poor Naming Schemes”, Loren Burkholder (
lorendb.dev/posts/gettin...
). Many examples on HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632...
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Getting Bitten by Poor Naming Schemes
Don't you love misleading documentation?
https://lorendb.dev/posts/getting-bitten-by-poor-naming-schemes/
about 1 month ago
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Sometimes the YouTube recommender just hits it out of the park – this is a great live performance of the beautiful “Rangi Saari” song 😍:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BgW8...
Devashri Manohar and Kanishk Seth are just incredible here. 👏🏽
#RangiSaari
#Song
#Music
#Live
#Gig
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Most Incredible Rangi Saari Performance You'll Ever See! @GIFLIFfest @Indiestaan #indie
YouTube video by INDIESTAAN
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BgW8fPL8uDI
about 1 month ago
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Wise, sobering words 😞: “The Lost Cause Of The Lisp Machines”, Tim Bradshaw (
www.tfeb.org/fragments/20...
). Via HN:
www.tfeb.org/fragments/20...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/rifpe8/los...
#Lisp
#LispMachines
#Symbolics
#Nostalgia
#Programming
#IDE
#Hardware
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The lost cause of the Lisp machines
I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will....
https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/
about 1 month ago
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This is the most insidious bug on
#iOS
– the
#iPhone
keyboard *deliberately* mistypes the letters you press 😡: “It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard Is Broken”, Michi NekoMichi (
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4623...
#Apple
#Typing
#AutoCorrect
#UX
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It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo
about 1 month ago
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👌🏽: “Generating C Code That People Actually Want To Use” [2019], Jonathan Protzenko (
jonathan.protzenko.fr/2019/01/04/b...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1930...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/4vfysy/gen...
#C
#Compilers
#Transpilers
#Readability
#Programming
#PLDI
#CodeGeneration
#Verification
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Generating C code that people actually want to use
Project Everest is a large, collaborative research effort that aims to verify and deploy a new, secure HTTPS stack. All of our code is verified using the F* programming language. Using KreMLin, a dedi...
http://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2019/01/04/behind-the-scenes.html
about 1 month ago
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The Amazon Pay app only lets you use your mobile number for UPI IDs (e.g. 9845098450@yapl). 😰 The Google Pay app only lets you use your Gmail username for UPI IDs (e.g. ashokkumar@oksbi). 😥 The BHIM app thankfully lets you customize your primary UPI ID. 😮💨
#India
#UPI
about 1 month ago
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👌🏽👇🏽: “Why I Ignore The Spotlight As A Staff Engineer”, Lalit Maganti (
lalitm.com/software-eng...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4614...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/xdjgbd/why...
On Reddit:
old.reddit.com/r/programmin...
#StaffEngineer
#Google
#Career
#Infrastructure
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Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming. Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and I...
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
about 2 months ago
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A lot of people feel this way 😩: “Everyone In Seattle Hates AI”, Jonathan Ready (
jonready.com/blog/posts/e...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613...
#Microsoft
#Seattle
#Layoffs
#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Hype
#Productivity
#Morale
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Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
about 2 months ago
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The utter greed & cynicism that made IndiGo mess up the lives of hundreds of thousands of passengers across the country this week in order to force the DGCA to roll back an inconvenient rule is 🤯. Evil. 😡
#IndiGo
#India
#Capitalism
#Monopoly
#WTF
#Aviation
about 2 months ago
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In which the Indian government continues its authoritarian war on its own citizens 😡: “India Orders Smartphone Makers To Preload State-Owned Cyber Safety App”, Reuters (
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...
#WTF
#India
#Authoritarianism
#SancharSaathi
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India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to ant...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/
about 2 months ago
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“Rust’s Ugly Syntax” [2023], Aleksey Kladov (
matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/r...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3454...
&
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4139...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/tn9gho/rus...
On Reddit:
old.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...
&
old.reddit.com/r/programmin...
#Rust
#Programming
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Rust's Ugly Syntax
People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust's syntax, they actually object to Rust's semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I'l...
https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html
about 2 months ago
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“Datacenters In Space Are A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Idea.”, ‘Taranis’ (
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/a34m1x/dat...
#AI
#Hype
#Space
#DataCenters
#Fantasy
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
about 2 months ago
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A bit too cynical, but there’s a grain of truth here: “How Good Engineers Write Bad Code At Big Companies”, Sean Goedecke (
www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/jxppk7/how...
#Programming
#Quality
#SoftwareEngineering
#BigTech
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How good engineers write bad code at big companies
--
https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
about 2 months ago
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No, or transparent, bathroom doors are my biggest irritants in hotels 😡. WTF? 👇🏽 lists hotels with bathroom doors 👏🏽: “Bring Back Doors”, Sadie (
bringbackdoors.com
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606...
#Hotels
#Bathrooms
#Doors
#Dignity
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Bring Back Doors
Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
https://bringbackdoors.com/
about 2 months ago
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“Gemini CLI Tips & Tricks”, Addy Osmani (
github.com/addyosmani/g...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606...
#Gemini
#Google
#GeminiCLI
#CodingAgents
#Tips
#AI
#LLMs
#AIAssistedCoding
#MCP
#Agents
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GitHub - addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips: Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks
Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks. Contribute to addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips
about 2 months ago
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“Opinion Piece: On Zig (And The Design Choices Within)”, ‘Blueberry Wren’ (
blueberrywren.dev/blog/on-zig/
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/uclead/opi...
#Zig
#Programming
#PLDI
#Critique
#Rants
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Opinion piece: On Zig (and the design choices within)
https://blueberrywren.dev/blog/on-zig/
about 2 months ago
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The article is too verbose & the discussions flame out, but some good references in both: “Memory Safety For Skeptics”, ACM Queue (
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/mytmnl/mem...
#PLDI
#Programming
#MemorySafety
#Security
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Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773095
about 2 months ago
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In which the “If Books Could Kill” podcast rips apart the
#book
“Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari:
overcast.fm/+AA9URJ81CEw
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/epis...
😅
#Sapiens
#Podcast
#BookReview
#IfBooksCouldKill
#Review
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Sapiens — If Books Could Kill
How do you tell the entire history of humanity in a single book? Whatever you do, do not open a browser window. Thanks to Dorsa Amir, Duncan Stibbard Hawkes and David Perry for help researching and fa...
https://overcast.fm/+AA9URJ81CEw
2 months ago
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Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use
#AI
while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:
youtube.com/shorts/H_Ff3...
#UX
#DarkUX
#Productivity
#Writing
#Interruptions
#Nagging
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The advent of AI and the plight of the Writer- explained by #emmathompson @ColbertLateShow #write
YouTube video by The Himalayan Writing Retreat
https://youtube.com/shorts/H_Ff3fQ_fVI
2 months ago
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How can you say no to “an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI”? 🙄 “How To Declutter, Quiet Down, And Take The AI Out Of Windows 11 25H2”, Ars Technica (
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
). On HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586...
#Windows
#Windows11
#AI
#Copilot
#Bloat
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How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2
A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/
2 months ago
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Nice: “Build System Trade-Offs”, Jynn Nelson (
jyn.dev/build-system...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4579...
On Lobsters:
lobste.rs/s/uwyfpy/bui...
#Build
#Programming
#BuildSystems
#Cargo
#Make
#Bazel
#Ninja
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build system tradeoffs
an overview of what builds for complicated projects have to think about
https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs
2 months ago
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Nice: “Why Do We Need Dithering?”, Dan Hollick (
typefully.com/DanHollick/w...
). Via HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581...
#Graphics
#ComputerGraphics
#ImageProcessing
#Dithering
#Images
#RetroComputing
#OpticalIllusion
#Vision
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Why do we need dithering? | Dan Hollick
Before we all mute the word 'dithering' I thought I'd explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place. Although it's an aesthetic now, we used to need dithering ...
https://typefully.com/DanHollick/why-do-we-need-dithering-Ut7oD4k
2 months ago
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