Welcome to issue 100 of Hacker Bits!
It’s unbelievable we’ve published 100 issues dating back to 2015. Here’s to 100 more! 🙂
We have a great selection of articles this month covering distributed systems, inheritance, database fundamentals, mental health, software quality, PuTTY, xz backdoor, 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
- No Abstractions: our API design principle by Increase
- Learning about distributed systems: where to start? by Murat Demirbas
- If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? by Hillel Wayne
- Why choose async/await over threads? by John Nunley
- Database Fundamentals by Tony Solomonik
Work less
- I love programming but I hate the programming industry
- Programming Is Mostly Thinking by Tim Ottinger
- Hardest problem in computer science: centering things by Nikita Prokopov
- Mental health in software engineering by Vadim Kravcenko
- How to think about software quality by Aditya Athalye
Stay current
- PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by Simon Tatham
- Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise by Andres Freund
- “Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study by Stephen Ornes
- Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities in 2024?
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