HN blogs - 29/9/25
Show HN: Getting the Best Bang for Your Buck for Your Blogging Infra https://bozhidar.me/blog/bang-for-buck-blog-infra/ (HN source)
I Tried Htmx https://bytecron.me/post/i-tried-htmx (HN source)
In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/user-effort/ (HN source)
https://camilo.matajira.com/?p=591
Against Foundry and Power Automate (low code vs. high code) https://rochan.bearblog.dev/low-code-vs-high-code/ (HN source)
How I Block All 26M of Your Curl Requests https://foxmoss.com/blog/packet-filtering/ (HN source)
Throwing Darts in Latent Space https://guille.site/posts/latent-space-darts/ (HN source)
Apply the Trie: Word Search https://mmhaskell.com/blog/2025/9/29/apply-the-trie-word-search (HN source)
Shipping Calendearing https://zachholman.com/posts/calendearing (HN source)
IP over Lasers https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/ip_over_lasers.php (HN source)
The Barefoot Engineer https://nemanjamilicevic.com/posts/barefoot-engineer/ (HN source)
I found my grail keyboard (the Kenesis mWave) https://sunny.gg/post/2025-09-23-kenesis-mwave/ (HN source)
Software You Can Love 2026 https://mattnite.net/blog/sycl-2026-announcement/ (HN source)
When ETL Turns into a Land Grab https://tower.dev/blog/when-etl-turns-into-a-land-grab (HN source)
I’ll quit my job and buy a farm https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/I%27ll-quit-my-job-and-buy-a-farm (HN source)
Lessons Learned from Vibe-Coding a Configuration Parser https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/vibe-lessons/ (HN source)
Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity
https://blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-golfing-a-tiny-demo-using-maths-and-a-pinch-of-insanity.html
Excel as a Frontend https://alexandrehtrb.github.io/posts/2025/09/excel-as-a-frontend/ (HN source)
The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/ (HN source)
90% https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90-percent/ (HN source)
Constitent Hashing https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/consistent-hashing/ (HN source)
Abandon All Keyboards https://robinrendle.com/notes/abandon-all-keyboards/ (HN source)
We’ll Never Have Flying Cars https://mertbulan.com/2025/09/29/well-never-have-flying-cars/ (HN source)
Understanding, not slop, is what’s interesting about LLMs https://blakewatson.com/journal/understanding-not-slop-is-whats-interesting-about-llms/ (HN source)
Stealing Debug Pretty Print from Vitis HLS https://stefanabikaram.com/writing/vitis-hls-debug-pretty-print/ (HN source)
Just nuked 120 unused NPM deps from a Nx monorepo https://johnjames.blog/posts/cleaning-house-in-nx-monorepo-how-i-removed-120-unused-deps-safely (HN source)