Welcome to issue 118 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering software essays, neural audio codecs, AGI, cookies, coding theatre, simple coding habits, SQL anti-patterns, 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
- Jemalloc Postmortem by Jason Evans
- Software essays that shaped me by Michael Lynch
- Free Programming Books
- Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs by Václav Volhejn
- How I bypassed Amazon’s Kindle web DRM by Pixelmelt
Work less
- The Programmer Identity Crisis by Simon Højberg
- Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents by Dwarkesh Patel
- Internet’s biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
- Code like a surgeon by Geoffrey Litt
- Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won’t refund API credits
Stay current
- The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review by Meks McClure
- The AI coding trap by Chris Loy
- A simple habit that saves my evenings by Alik Khilazhev
- Structured Procrastination by John Perry
- SQL Anti-Patterns by Jordan Goodman
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