Welcome to issue 110 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering cryptography, legacy code, OAuth2, bloat, junior devs, hash tables, memory safety, and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal by Soatok
- You’re not a senior engineer until you’ve worked on a legacy project by Alen Kosanovic
- In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager by Juxhin Dyrmishi Brigjaj
- Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall by Jonathan Landy
- What’s OAuth2, anyway? by Roman Glushko
Work less
- On Bloat by Rob Pike
- We are destroying software by Salvatore Sanfilippo
- Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on by Chris Kiehl
- Developer Philosophy by qntm
- Discovery Coding by Jimmy Miller
Stay current
- New junior developers can’t code by Namanyay Goel
- Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024 by Tech Talks Weekly
- Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster by Steve Nadis
- It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety by Robert N. M. Watson, et al.
- Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
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