Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Design

Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data (pocoo.org)
Most software that exists today does not forget. Creating software that remembers is easy, but designing software that deliberately “forgets” is a bit more complex. By “forgetting,” I don't mean losing data because it wasn’t saved or losing it randomly due to bugs. I'm referring to making a deliberate design decision to discard data at a later time. This ability to forget can be an incredibly benefitial property for many applications. Most importantly software that forgets enables different user experiences.
Software Design, User Experience, Data Management, Ephemerality
31 points by BerislavLopac 21 days ago | 40 comments
Why doesn't Roc have a Maybe or Option or Optional, or null or nil or undefined? (roc-lang.org)
The inventor of the null reference refers to it as his "billion dollar mistake" because it "has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years."
Programming Languages, Null References, Software Design
14 points by Ciantic 28 days ago | 7 comments
Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013) (gillardmoss.me.uk)
Back when the first internet bubble was bursting I had my first web development job. We thought we were sophisticated because we used Macromedia Drumbeat whose killer feature was, gosh, dynamic ASP and JSP websites. This put us a cut above those ‘amateurs’ who chopped huge TIFFs into static HTML using Fireworks (pfff)!
Web Development, Software Design, Anti-Patterns, History
90 points by mooreds 50 days ago | 69 comments
A word about systemd (2016) (skarnet.org)
systemd is becoming de facto a standard init system for Linux. But even this choice of words is treacherous, because systemd is much more than an init system. It's basically an integrated redesign of all the low-level userspace of a Linux system, with great plans to change how software is run and organized.
Linux, Operating Systems, Software Design, System Administration
36 points by tosh 65 days ago | 182 comments
Handling complexity without abstraction: Algebraic Bricklaying C (github.com/gritzko)
Programming Languages, C, Software Design, Complexity
43 points by gritzko 79 days ago | 6 comments
Duck typing (horror) in Go (ccampo.me)
Go Programming, Software Design, Duck Typing
50 points by thunderbong 92 days ago | 57 comments
Worse Is Better (wikipedia.org)
Software Design, Principles, Philosophy
5 points by gangorgasm 92 days ago | 1 comments
Why ADTs are good and Inheritance is bad? (stackoverflow.com)
Programming, Software Design, Data Structures
4 points by dingmaotu 98 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Visualize Software Architecture/Concepts (ycombinator.com)
Software Architecture, Visualizations, Software Design
29 points by biosboiii 102 days ago | 19 comments
Ask HN: Are any databases implementing own memory paging (swapping)? (ycombinator.com)
Databases, Memory Management, Software Design, Optimization
10 points by kuriozeetee 104 days ago | 4 comments
Interview: John Ousterhout Reflects on "A Philosophy of Software Design" [video] (youtube.com)
Software Design, Interviews, Computer Science, Books
12 points by tkhattra 119 days ago | 0 comments
When objects are not enough (2021) (tonysm.com)
Philosophy, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Design
77 points by o2l 122 days ago | 54 comments
Dysfunctional Options Pattern in Go (rednafi.com)
Go, Programming, Software Design, Design Patterns
19 points by ingve 124 days ago | 8 comments
Reflection: Smalltalk's Most Enduring Idea? By Bryan Foote (2017) (youtube.com)
Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Design, History
3 points by twoodfin 125 days ago | 0 comments
What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it (microsoft.com)
C++, Programming, Software Design
115 points by luu 125 days ago | 176 comments
Falsehoods Software Developers Believe About Event-Driven Systems (dimtion.fr)
Software Development, Event-Driven Architecture, Software Design
13 points by dimtion 143 days ago | 9 comments
How the STL Uses Explicit (quuxplusone.github.io)
C++, STL, Programming, Software Design
67 points by jandeboevrie 148 days ago | 48 comments
Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? (ycombinator.com)
Architecture, Message Queues, Software Design
389 points by alexhutcheson 155 days ago | 364 comments
The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23 (gingerbill.org)
Programming, Software Design
134 points by toprerules 156 days ago | 148 comments
Patterns of data loading: Topics and broadcast (shermanonsoftware.com)
Data Loading, Programming, Software Design
15 points by jeffrey-sherman 162 days ago | 0 comments
You'll regret using natural keys (ploeh.dk)
Databases, Software Design, Programming
739 points by thunderbong 169 days ago | 553 comments
Ask HN: Why are all major operating systems monolithic? (ycombinator.com)
Operating Systems, Software Design, Technical Discussion
44 points by achenet 175 days ago | 77 comments
"Boundaries of Language Design" with Andrew Kelley (Zig) & Ginger Bill (Odin) [video] (youtube.com)
Programming Languages, Software Design, Video, Zig, Odin
10 points by gingerBill 177 days ago | 2 comments
What factors explain the nature of software? (tratt.net)
Software Development, Philosophy, Software Design
117 points by ingve 191 days ago | 91 comments
Laws of Software Evolution (two-wrongs.com)
Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Design, Computer Science
83 points by thunderbong 208 days ago | 45 comments
Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way (engineerscodex.com)
Software Design, Programming, Experience, Lessons Learned
126 points by thunderbong 210 days ago | 88 comments
A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) (oilshell.org)
Software Architecture, Programming, Software Design
135 points by thunderbong 214 days ago | 67 comments