Welcome to issue 98 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering how to study, Shazam, simple architectures, self-attention, AI/ML, tech work, from engineer to manager, 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
- Mastering Programming by Kent Beck
- How to Study by William J. Rapaport
- How is a binary executable organized? Let’s explore it by Julia Evans
- I looked through attacks in my access logs by Nish Tahir
- How does Shazam work? by Cameron MacLeod
Work less
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- If architects had to work like programmers by Gunnar Anzinger
- In Defense of Simple Architectures by Dan Luu
- From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate by Vladimir Klepov
- What you’ve got is in fact a people problem by Glyph Lefkowitz
Stay current
- Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token by Shyam Pather
- Sudo for Windows by Jordi Adoumie
- The Undercover Generalist by Adolfo Ochagavía
- Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
- The Failed Commodification of Technical Work by Ludic
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