Welcome to our final edition of 2025!
With so many standout pieces published throughout the year, it’s easy for gems to slip by unnoticed. So we pulled together a curated roundup of the most essential reads you might have missed.
Enjoy this handpicked collection of 2025’s must‑read articles.
From all of us at Hacker Bits, wishing you warm holidays and a healthy, inspiring new year ahead!
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Prompt engineering playbook for programmers by Addy Osmani
- Software essays that shaped me by Michael Lynch
- Free Programing Books
- Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google by Teiva Harsanyi
- Push Ifs Up and Fors Down by Alex Kladov
Work less
- Why I Won’t Use AI by James King
- Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too by Marcus Hutchins
- Code like a surgeon by Geoffrey Litt
- Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
- New junior developers can’t code by Namanyay Goel
Stay current
- A simple habit that saves my evenings by Alik Khilazhev
- The AI coding trap by Chris Loy
- The rise of judgement over technical skill by Alexander Kohlhofer
- Just Fucking Code by Lane Wagner
- My Colleague Julius by Ploum
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