Welcome to issue 121 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering PCs refusing shut down, most popular blogs of 2025, Claude, tech monoculture, lessons from Google, booting from a vinyl record, agent orchestration 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
- Lessons from 14 years at Google by Addy Osmani
- High-Level Is the Goal by Ben Visness
- Unrolling the Codex agent loop by Michael Bolin
- Booting from a vinyl record by Bogin Jr.
- Agent orchestration for the timid by Mark Ferree
Work less
- The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 by Michael Lynch
- PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by Carly Page
- Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them by Leila Clark
- Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 by Bryton Herdes and Tom Strickx
- The tech monoculture is finally breaking by Jason Willems
Stay current
- Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work by Simon Willison
- The Dilbert Afterlife by Scott Alexander
- Reading across books with Claude Code by Pieter Maes
- How I estimate work by Sean Goecke
- Proof of Corn by Seth Goldstein
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