Welcome to issue 116 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering browser fingerprinting, SQL Noir, writing design docs, DeepSeek-R1, vibe coding, AI hate, tricks of the trade, 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
- Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting by Nitesh Saxena
- Writing documentation for AI: best practices by kapa.ai
- Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes by Hristo Bogoev
- Wirth’s Law
- Writing a good design document by Grant Slatton
Work less
- Being a developer in the age of reasoning AI by Mani Doraisamy
- The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1 by Jay Alammar
- As an experienced LLM user, I don’t use generative LLMs often by Max Woolf
- I know when you’re vibe coding by Alex Kondov
- Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too by Marcus Hutchins
Stay current
- If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
- Getting Past Procrastination by Rahul Pandey
- I Build Software Quickly by Evan Hahn
- Never write your own date parsing library by Zach Leatherman
- Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
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