Welcome to the last issue of 2024 (despite that it’s technically 2025)!
It’s challenging to keep up with so many great articles published every day. With so much going on these days, this issue is all about the best articles you may have missed this past year.
We’ve put together a collection of the top must-read articles of 2024!
From the team at Hacker Bits, we wish you a happy holidays and healthy new year!
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Mastering Programming by Kent Beck
- Things software developers should learn about learning by Neil C. C. Brown, Felienne F. J. Hermans, Lauren E. Margulieux
- How to Study by William J. Rapaport
- Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding by CaffeineFueled
- How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math by Miguel Grinberg
Work less
- Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether by Pao Ramen
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- Code review antipatterns by Simon Tatham
- Serverless Horrors by Andras Bacsai
- Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob by Axol
Stay current
- Big Tech to EU: “Drop Dead” by Cory Doctorow
- Artificial intelligence is losing hype
- Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities…
- Postgres is eating the database world by Ruohang Feng
- When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
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