Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Development

The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it (jangafx.com)
At JangaFX, we make several products that run natively on Linux. We love the flexibility and power that Linux offers our developers, but shipping software on it is a whole different challenge.

Linux, Software Development, Operating Systems, Compatibility

101 points by generichuman 6 hours ago | 65 comments

Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) (grantland.com)
Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs is about the spiritual yearnings and time-frittering activities of youngish coders immersed in the drudgery of the software-development process, and how those activities become an expression of those yearnings.

Silicon Valley, Books, Culture, Technology, Software Development

34 points by Apocryphon 8 hours ago | 5 comments

In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.

Software Development, DevOps, Opinion

6 points by aard 10 hours ago | 0 comments

In Defence of TypeScript Enums (yazanalaboudi.dev)
In the past few years, there’s been a growing trend of criticizing TypeScript’s enum feature.

TypeScript, Programming, Software Development, Enums

14 points by romellem 12 hours ago | 5 comments

Zig is a general-purpose programming language (ziglang.org)
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software.

Programming Languages, Software Development, Toolchains

3 points by doener 12 hours ago | 0 comments

Why F#? (batsov.com)
If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment.

.NET, Programming Languages, Software Development

317 points by bozhidar 16 hours ago | 277 comments

Growing Buffers to Avoid Copying Data (johnnysswlab.com)
We at Johnny’s Software Lab LLC are experts in performance. If performance is in any way concern in your software project, feel free to contact us.

Software Development, Performance Optimization, Programming

6 points by ingve 1 day ago | 0 comments

My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded (mtlynch.io)
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.

Writing, Books, Software Development

15 points by hyperbrainer 1 day ago | 7 comments

In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.

DevOps, Software Development, Software Engineering

12 points by aard 1 day ago | 0 comments

JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final (openjdk.org)
Issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings aim to prepare developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default by restricting final field mutation; this makes Java programs safer and potentially faster. Application developers can avoid both current warnings and future restrictions by selectively enabling the ability to mutate final fields where essential.

Java, Programming Languages, Security, Software Development, Open Source

202 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 118 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

Ask HN: Are You Vibe Coding? (ycombinator.com)
Are You Vibe Coding?

Software Development, Coding, Work Habits, Productivity

12 points by vibe_coding 2 days ago | 21 comments

Vibe Coding and Kodak Cameras (stevedylan.dev)
I’m sure many who read this are familiar by now with the term “vibe coding,” a euphoric style of programming where you prompt AI models or IDEs to write software and just “vibe.”

Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software Development

3 points by jhunter1016 2 days ago | 0 comments

Custom AI Chatbot Development Services: Restrictions and Opportunities (belitsoft.com)
Companies know that off-the-shelf solutions can force them to adapt their processes to the tool, while custom solutions let them preserve those unique processes.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Software Development

3 points by Aninay 2 days ago | 1 comments

Debts, Tech and Otherwise (newardassociates.com)
While people debate the validity of "tech debt", others are asking, "What other sorts of 'debt' do we have in software development and delivery?"

Software Development, Technical Debt, Software Delivery

38 points by BerislavLopac 2 days ago | 14 comments

Taming the UB Monsters in C++ (herbsutter.com)
The C++ community broadly has a lot of hardening work well underway.

C++, Programming Languages, Software Development

86 points by ingve 2 days ago | 121 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) (ycombinator.com)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Programming, Software Development, Community, Ask HN, March 2025

369 points by david927 2 days ago | 934 comments

Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful (nmn.gl)
Last Tuesday at 1 AM, I was debugging a critical production issue in my AI dev tool. As I dug through layers of functions, I suddenly realized — unlike the new generation of developers, I was grateful that I could actually understand my codebase. That’s when I started thinking more about Karpathy’s recent statements on vibe coding.

Software Development, AI, Programming, Opinion

6 points by namanyayg 2 days ago | 0 comments

All Estimations Are Wrong, but None Are Useful (techworld-with-milan.com)
If you're working in a team using the Scrum framework, you use story points to estimate effort on your stories, tasks, etc. Some management also takes this into account and does planning, measures your productivity, and even keeps you accountable when something is done. Yet, they need to learn that software estimations are always wrong.

Software Development, Scrum, Estimation, Project Management

3 points by Kerrick 2 days ago | 1 comments

Hacker Laws (hacker-laws.com)
Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

Software Development, Principles, Patterns, Laws

126 points by kaonwarb 3 days ago | 21 comments

Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts (pocoo.org)
As of Rust 1.86, this is finally fixed. The cast now works:

Rust, Programming Languages, Compiler Design, Software Development, New Features

174 points by jmillikin 3 days ago | 76 comments

Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful (nmn.gl)
Last Tuesday at 1 AM, I was debugging a critical production issue in my AI dev tool. As I dug through layers of functions, I suddenly realized — unlike the new generation of developers, I was grateful that I could actually understand my codebase. That’s when I started thinking more about Karpathy’s recent statements on vibe coding.

Generative AI, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development

14 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 1 comments

Breaking up with vibe coding (lucasaguiar.xyz)
We’ve all been there: headphones on, music pumping, fingers flying across the keyboard, lost in the “flow” with your favorite AI agent. This, my friends, is vibe coding. It’s when you’re in the zone, seemingly effortlessly producing code.

Programming, AI, Software Development

75 points by isfttr 3 days ago | 80 comments

I Built an LLM Framework in Just 100 Lines – Here Is Why (zacharyhuang.substack.com)
Have you ever stared at a complex AI framework and wondered, “Does it really need to be this complicated?” After a year of struggling with bloated frameworks, I decided to strip away anything unnecessary. The result is Pocket Flow, a minimalist LLM framework in just 100 lines of code.

AI, Software Development, Open Source, Frameworks

12 points by zh2408 3 days ago | 0 comments

The Wrong Way to Use a Signed Distance Function (SDF) (winterbloed.be)
Disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with using a sdf this way.

Computer Graphics, Programming, 3D Modeling, Software Development

49 points by AnthonBerg 3 days ago | 6 comments

Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful (nmn.gl)
Last Tuesday at 1 AM, I was debugging a critical production issue in my AI dev tool. As I dug through layers of functions, I suddenly realized — unlike the new generation of developers, I was grateful that I could actually understand my codebase. That’s when I started thinking more about Karpathy’s recent statements on vibe coding.

Software Development, AI, Programming

7 points by namanyayg 4 days ago | 1 comments

The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor (diurnal.st)

Open Source, Software Development, Community

59 points by diurnalist 4 days ago | 13 comments

Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1 (jdrouet.github.io)
In the previous article, I introduced what project we're going to address in the following weeks: how to build a cross-platform search engine with encryption capabilities. Today, we'll have a look at the first technical challenge: how to store things on disk.

Rust, Search Engines, Programming, Software Development

26 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 2 comments

Ruby makes advanced CLI options easy (searls.co)
If you're not a "UNIX person", the thought of writing a command line application can be scary and off-putting.

Ruby, Programming, Software Development

12 points by thunderbong 4 days ago | 0 comments

Ubuntu Provides More Insight into Their Decision Not to "-O3" All Packages (phoronix.com)
Since last year Canonical had been investigating using -O3 compiler optimizations for their Ubuntu package builds in the name of delivering better performance for Ubuntu Linux.

Linux, Ubuntu, Performance Optimization, Software Development

4 points by wrayjustin 4 days ago | 0 comments