Links tagged “article”
182 links, newest first.
blog.senko.net
if code was never the hard part, why the salaries, the burnout, the leetcode interviews?
queue.acm.org
we ask for senior judgment while deleting the work that produces seniors.
john.fun
How elevator dispatch algorithms work, from the simple LOOK approach to the destination-dispatch systems that cut waiting.
lockwood.dev
a measured progress report on an AI-assisted port.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Matthew Green weighs the key-recovery attack on HAWK and the reduced-round AES result against what each actually implies for deployed cryptography.
martinfowler.com
Fowler puts numbers on why cleaning up code pays for itself.
fermisense.com
A reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beats every frontier configuration tested on a catalog-review workflow, at 40x less cost than the cheapest.
earendil.com
inference APIs make session state non-portable, and that is lock-in.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs - Raschka on dialing reasoning up and down, and what each notch costs.
matklad.github.io
Memory Safety's Hardest Problem - matklad on why aliasing and concurrency, not buffer overflows, are the part nobody has solved.
imperialviolet.org
We have proof automation now - Adam Langley verifies a zstd implementation in Lean. Formal methods just became something you might actually use.
werd.io
Argues that open-weight Chinese models are closing on the proprietary American ones while gaining the wider adoption that follows from being open.
simonwillison.net
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now - the tool that compiles its own runtime. Willison unpacks the stack.
queue.acm.org
After twenty years, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote his last Bikeshed column. The bikeshed is dead, long live the bikeshed.
