HN blogs - 15/7/25
Fighting Brandolini's Law with Sampling https://brady.fyi/fact-checking/ (HN source)
Reduce Your Decision Fatigue https://kupajo.com/reduce-your-decision-fatigue/ (HN source)
Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix (HN source)
Billions of Edges per Second with Postgres https://onesparse.com/blog/2025/07/01/billions-of-edges-per-second-with-postgres.html (HN source)
Claude Code Unleashed https://ymichael.com/2025/07/15/claude-code-unleashed (HN source)
Connecting legibility to theory building in programming https://ashwinsundar.com/posts/legibility-and-programming/ (HN source)
What Caused the 'Baby Boom'? What Would It Take to Have Another?
An app can be a home-cooked meal https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ (HN source)
Defeating Memory Leaks with Zig Allocators https://tgmatos.github.io/defeating-memory-leaks-with-zig-allocators/ (HN source)
Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5 https://www.amitmerchant.com/everything-that-is-coming-in-php-85/ (HN source)
The Plato Plateau – anxiety matched philosophy https://aneeshsathe.com/2025/07/14/the-plato-plateau/ (HN source)
More Artificial than Intelligent, and it is only getting worse https://mlagerberg.com/much-a-little-i-and-it-is-not-getting-better/ (HN source)
How Hype Works; What LLMs have in common with genetics https://blog.kierangill.xyz/how-hype-works (HN source)
Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity https://briandouglas.ie/string-buffer-c/ (HN source)
Essential and Accidental Configuration https://jfmengels.net/essential-and-accidental-configuration/ (HN source)
NPM-based sandboxes for dev tools https://endor.dev/blog/endor-dev-tools (HN source)
When Is Tech Not Hype? Tulips, Toilets, Trains – and Tabs https://ajmoon.com/posts/when-is-tech-not-hype-tulips-toilets-trains-and-tabs (HN source)
What Business Do https://melihozkurt.com/what-business-do/ (HN source)
Am I Becoming Irrelevant? https://jordivillar.com/blog/becoming-irrelevant (HN source)
Treat the Internet Like Real Life https://3.st/2025/07/15/treat-the-internet-like-real-life/ (HN source)
The Problem of Hidden Dependencies https://marcelsud.me/en/the-invisible-dependencies-problem/ (HN source)
How Intelligence Self Organizes https://tejasbhakta.com/intelligence-organization (HN source)
Are We Entering a First-Order Optimizer Renaissance? https://lukemerrick.com/posts/first_order_optimization.html (HN source)