Hacker News with Generative AI: Best Practices

Software Engineering Laws (manager.dev)
Some of those are famous, and some are quite niche. ALL of them are super useful to engineers and managers.
Software Engineering, Management, Software Development, Best Practices
11 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 1 comments
John Ousterhout and Robert Martin Follow-Up to Aposd vs. Clean Code [video] (youtube.com)
Software Development, Programming, Best Practices, Software Design
17 points by funcimp 2 days ago | 0 comments
The right way to do data fixtures in Go (brandur.org)
Every test suite should start early in building a strong convention to generate data fixtures. If it doesn’t, data fixtures will still emerge (they’re that necessary), but in a way that’s poorly designed, with no API (or a poorly designed one), and not standardized.
Go, Testing, Software Development, Best Practices
3 points by DaGardner 6 days ago | 0 comments
Safe Shell String Interpolation (samwing.dev)
Let's take the toy problem of getting the user's name and printing out a rainbow greeting banner. An inexperienced developer might solve the problem like this:
Security, Programming, Software Development, Shell Scripting, Best Practices
21 points by Wingy 11 days ago | 7 comments
Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda (amazon.com)
AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service tenets. This post provides recommendations and insights for implementing highly distributed applications based on the Lambda service team’s experience building its robust asynchronous event processing system. It dives into challenges you might face, solution techniques, and best practices for handling noisy neighbors.
Serverless Computing, AWS Lambda, Best Practices, Scalability, Reliability
15 points by mariuz 15 days ago | 0 comments
Practical Process Control: Methods and Best Practices for Automatic PID Control (controlguru.com)
Process Control, Automation, PID Control, Engineering, Best Practices
46 points by Tomte 18 days ago | 1 comments
Idiomatic Rust (a-i-nstein.neocities.org)
Discover the beauty of idiomatic Rust, one example at a time
Rust, Programming Languages, Best Practices
22 points by astennumero 18 days ago | 40 comments
How Best Practices Became the Industry's Most Dangerous Religion (medium.com)
In 2007, I deleted a 40,000-line Java enterprise project and rebuilt it in PHP4. My colleagues acted like I’d sacrificed a goat in the server room. “Best practices!” they cried. “Maintainability!” they warned. Three months later, we shipped early. The system ran flawlessly for a decade.
Software Development, Best Practices, Programming Languages, Industry Practices, Software Engineering
3 points by thunderbong 18 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Is Clean Code a waste of time? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Is Clean Code a waste of time?
Programming, Software Development, Software Engineering, Code Quality, Best Practices
25 points by 01-_- 27 days ago | 32 comments
The Ten Commandments of Go (bitfieldconsulting.com)
As a full-time Go teacher and writer, I spend a lot of time working with students to help them write clearer, better, and more useful Go programs. I’ve found that a lot of the advice I give them can be reduced to a fairly small set of general principles, and here they are.
Programming, Go, Software Development, Best Practices
4 points by mu0n 28 days ago | 0 comments
API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value (microsoft.com)
Consider the following API:
API Design, Software Development, Programming, Best Practices
236 points by luu 35 days ago | 126 comments
How Core Git Developers Configure Git (gitbutler.com)
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Git, Configuration, Software Development, Best Practices
570 points by lnkl 37 days ago | 122 comments
How core Git developers configure Git (gitbutler.com)
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Git, Configuration, Software Development, Best Practices
317 points by chmaynard 40 days ago | 57 comments
Excellent Pull Request Reviews (michaelheap.com)
Pull request reviews are a critical part of building high-quality products, but too often, they become a rubber-stamping exercise—skim, “LGTM,” approve. This kind of review can lead to broken code, unclear documentation, and missed opportunities for improvement.
Software Development, Code Review, Best Practices
6 points by mooreds 41 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: What commit message conventions do you follow? (ycombinator.com)
I'm new to the world of programming and came to know about commit conventions. Just wanted to know what conventions do you use.
Programming, Git, Best Practices
18 points by rishikeshs 46 days ago | 40 comments
Are libraries always the best choice in secure development? (ycombinator.com)
I attended a secure development course where the instructor insisted on always using third-party libraries.
Security, Software Development, Best Practices
5 points by jeeybee 49 days ago | 5 comments
The "late‐binding closure" pitfall in Python (notion.site)
Python, Programming, Software Development, Best Practices
5 points by behnamoh 49 days ago | 8 comments
Prefer tee -a, not >>, in CI (huonw.github.io)
Shell scripts sometimes have to append data to a file. Redirecting output with >> is the conventional way and works fine, but using tee -a instead is a usually better default, especially in continuous integration. It’s just as easy and gives automatic introspection: the same value is printed to stdout and so appears in normal logs too.
Shell Scripting, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Development, Best Practices
4 points by dbaupp 49 days ago | 0 comments
Disabling cert checks: we have not learned much (haxx.se)
And by that I mean the global “we” as in the world of developers.
Security, Software Development, Best Practices
35 points by caution 50 days ago | 22 comments
PostgreSQL Best Practices (speakdatascience.com)
PostgreSQL (Postgres) is one of the most powerful and popular relational database management systems available today. Whether you’re a database administrator, developer, or DevOps engineer, following best practices ensures optimal performance, security, and maintainability of your database systems.
Databases, PostgreSQL, Best Practices, Data Management
72 points by lemonwaterlime 52 days ago | 45 comments
Restrict Mutability of State (medium.com)
What appears at first to be a trivial observation turns out to be a subtly important one: a great many software defects arise from the (incorrect) modification of state. It follows from this that if there is less opportunity for code to change state, there will be fewer defects that arise from state change!
Software Development, Software Defects, Programming, State Management, Best Practices
5 points by ingve 53 days ago | 1 comments
21st Century C++ (cacm.acm.org)
It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived. As planned, it evolved to meet challenges, but many developers use C++ as if it was still the previous millennium. This is suboptimal from the perspective of ease of expressing ideas, performance, reliability, and maintainability. Here, I present the key concepts on which performant, type safe, and flexible C++ software can be built: resource management, life-time management, error-handling, modularity, and generic programming.
C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software Engineering, Best Practices
177 points by bandwitch 57 days ago | 269 comments
Reasons Not to Refactor (thoughtbot.com)
Refactoring is a wonderful practice for making code and change easier to manage. That said, here are some reasons why we should not proceed with a refactor.
Software Development, Code Refactoring, Best Practices
80 points by chmaynard 58 days ago | 59 comments
It's OK to hardcode feature flags (mendhak.com)
Feature flags (or toggles) are often used to control the visibility of new features in a product.
Software Development, Feature Flags, Best Practices
99 points by PuddleOfSausage 60 days ago | 107 comments
Global variables are not the problem (codestyleandtaste.com)
In this article I'll show an example where avoiding a global variable has led to a bug, I'll define what global variables are, explain the problem, and then give examples where I have used them successfully.
Programming, Software Development, Best Practices
80 points by levodelellis 61 days ago | 158 comments
Why Aren't You Idempotent? (lightfoot.dev)
Idempotency doesn't get the attention it deserves.
Software Development, Programming, Best Practices
8 points by thunderbong 62 days ago | 3 comments
What have we forgotten? (mova.org)
This is the story of an organization that seems to have forgotten basic software engineering concepts. This organization does exists and has these exact problems, but it is also a generic story about similar organizations that abandon engineering excellence for their own peril.
Software Engineering, Organizational Culture, Best Practices
98 points by sam_lowry_ 64 days ago | 97 comments
Best Practices for Key Derivation (trailofbits.com)
Key derivation is essential in many cryptographic applications, including key exchange, key management, secure communications, and building robust cryptographic primitives. But it’s also easy to get wrong: although standard tools exist for different key derivation needs, our audits often uncover improper uses of these tools that could compromise key security. Flickr’s API signature forgery vulnerability is a famous example of misusing a hash function during key derivation.
Cryptography, Security, Best Practices, Key Management
3 points by tatersolid 64 days ago | 0 comments
Create-react-app is a zombie application (clientserver.dev)
create-react-app hasn't been in the official documentation for over a year, but that doesn't stop a constant flood of new developers from trying to use it.
React, Web Development, Developer Tools, Software, Best Practices
3 points by thunderbong 69 days ago | 0 comments
Storage is cheap, but not thinking about logging is expensive (counting-stuff.com)
The bad habits of data over-collection run deep.
Data Storage, Logging, Best Practices, Data Management
11 points by todsacerdoti 71 days ago | 0 comments