HN blogs - 25/6/25
Running large language models at home with Ollama https://chrisbeckman.dev/posts/home-ollama-setup (HN source)
How to find a job in tech in 2025 https://vibeinterview.com/blog/how-to-find-a-job-in-tech-in-2025 (HN source)
Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django? https://emma.has-a.blog/articles/why-do-we-need-an-external-app-for-rest.html (HN source)
Explaining Software and Computational Methods https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/06/25/hyperdoc.html (HN source)
Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
Divine Provenance https://asimov.blog/divine-provenance/ (HN source)
You're still the engineer (using coding agents effectively) https://mike.gg/youre-still-the-engineer (HN source)
Are there moats in software anymore?
https://www.swe2vc.com/p/are-there-any-moats-in-software-anymore
Q Value https://rohitgupta.in/blog/2025/06/25/q-value/ (HN source)
An All-Around Better Horse https://www.patrickhebron.com/betterhorse/ (HN source)
Claude Code Is Magic https://www.rkayg.com/blog/claude-code-is-magic (HN source)
Public Bet https://el-yawd.github.io/blog/2025/public-bet/ (HN source)
The Agent Testing Pyramid https://rchaves.app/the-agent-testing-pyramid/ (HN source)
So You Want to Learn LLMs? Here's the Roadmap https://www.ahmadosman.com/blog/learn-llms-roadmap/ (HN source)
Rules Clobber Goals https://kupajo.com/rules-clobber-goals/ (HN source)
4 Month Journey to Cissp – 2025 https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/4-month-journey-to-cissp-2025 (HN source)
From NixOS to Ubuntu https://jnsgr.uk/2025/06/from-nixos-to-ubuntu (HN source)
The more LLMs think, the worse they translate https://nuenki.app/blog/the_more_llms_think_the_worse_they_translate (HN source)
An Abstraction of Reality https://brian.jp/abstraction-of-reality/ (HN source)
The Nature of Lisp, Code Generation and Wieldable Programming Power https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2025-06-25-generation-systems/ (HN source)
https://major.io/p/dont-tell-me-rag-is-easy/
Encouraging the use of LLMs made interviews easier (for us as interviewers) https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/06/encouraging-the-use-of-llms-made-interviews-easier-for-us-as-interviewers (HN source)
The Discreet Charm of the Infrastructureless https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/the-discreet-charm-of-infrastructureless.html (HN source)
Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems https://eugeneyan.com/writing/qa-evals/ (HN source)
Community Is Motivation on Tap https://alanwu.xyz/posts/community/ (HN source)
The collective waste caused by poor documentation https://shanrauf.com/archive/collective-waste-from-poor-documentation (HN source)
Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-coordinate-systems/ (HN source)
Getting an LLM to set its own temperature https://amanvir.com/blog/getting-an-llm-to-set-its-own-temperature (HN source)