r4um

10,790 karmajoined February 27, 2013On HN

systems guy • curious and unflinching • 99.999% positive

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Control and complexity: tension in systems design ferd.ca
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Lost Confidence longform.asmartbear.com
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Only Bounds smallcultfollowing.com
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Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection lemire.me
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A Lesson from the Cockpit subbu.org
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What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now?brooker.co.za
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The 90 Day disclosure policy is dead blog.himanshuanand.com
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The four horsemen behind Postgres outages malisper.me
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It's Time to Be Right brooker.co.za
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Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer devblogs.microsoft.com
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My AI Workflow (Without Losing My Skills)marcgg.com
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My heuristics are wrong. What now?brooker.co.za
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From error-handling to structured concurrency blog.nelhage.com
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TLA+ Mental Models muratbuffalo.blogspot.com
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An effect notation based on with-clauses and blocks blog.yoshuawuyts.com
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Reflections on the Future of Software Engineering Retreat thoughtworks.com
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Zen of AI Coding nonstructured.com
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Mechanical Habits matklad.github.io
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Agentic Engineering Patterns simonwillison.net
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How to identify assumptions by distorting times jonesabi.com
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About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design mnt.io
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When the Bubble Bursts theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com
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Defer available in gcc and clang gustedt.wordpress.com
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Systems Thinking theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?lukefleed.xyz
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Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug kobzol.github.io
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Everyday Systems everydaysystems.com
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Why Strong Consistency?brooker.co.za
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Tech Predictions for 2026 and Beyond allthingsdistributed.com
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Async Mutexes matklad.github.io
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