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Stories by birdculture

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' (finalroundai.com)
HN 1073 pts 532 comments by birdculture Dec 17, 2025 AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
HN 784 pts 465 comments by birdculture Dec 26, 2025 Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Self-hosting my photos with Immich (michael.stapelberg.ch)
HN 662 pts 377 comments by birdculture Nov 30, 2025 thread
Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) (fabiensanglard.net)
HN 431 pts 88 comments by birdculture Jan 4, 2026 thread
When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 409 pts 72 comments by birdculture Oct 16, 2025 thread
Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages (github.com)
HN 407 pts 182 comments by birdculture Nov 7, 2025 Programming (General) thread
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (it-notes.dragas.net)
HN 395 pts 92 comments by birdculture Dec 30, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack (aikido.dev)
HN 352 pts 23 comments by birdculture Nov 24, 2025 thread
Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async (github.com)
HN 323 pts 161 comments by birdculture Jan 8, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (twilio.com)
HN 281 pts 252 comments by birdculture Dec 13, 2025 thread
Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux (github.com)
HN 278 pts 102 comments by birdculture Nov 4, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Retiring Test-Ipv6.com (retire.test-ipv6.com)
HN 273 pts 185 comments by birdculture Oct 5, 2025 thread
Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program (serversfor.dev)
HN 271 pts 90 comments by birdculture Dec 4, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system (smolbsd.org)
HN 265 pts 25 comments by birdculture Oct 14, 2025 thread
How to make a damn website (2024) (lmnt.me)
HN 246 pts 78 comments by birdculture Jan 13, 2026 thread
Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022) (corecursive.com)
HN 244 pts 42 comments by birdculture Nov 18, 2025 thread
Related: <i>Rebecca Heineman has died</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45960368">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45960368</a>
Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser (strudel.cc)
HN 244 pts 53 comments by birdculture Oct 13, 2025 Web DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100% (github.com)
HN 235 pts 101 comments by birdculture Oct 19, 2025 thread
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)
HN 228 pts 33 comments by birdculture Dec 15, 2025 thread
Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change (lwn.net)
HN 227 pts 212 comments by birdculture Oct 24, 2025 thread
Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors (rkirov.github.io)
HN 224 pts 75 comments by birdculture Oct 19, 2025 Science / Math / Physics thread
The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (iankduncan.com)
HN 220 pts 36 comments by birdculture Nov 29, 2025 thread
Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale (notpeerreviewed.com)
HN 208 pts 41 comments by birdculture Nov 4, 2025 thread
AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs (coderabbit.ai)
HN 207 pts 181 comments by birdculture Dec 18, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland (lists.x.org)
HN 207 pts 225 comments by birdculture Nov 2, 2025 Security / Privacy thread
Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980) (www-formal.stanford.edu)
HN 193 pts 105 comments by birdculture Nov 2, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Nix Derivation Madness (fzakaria.com)
HN 188 pts 69 comments by birdculture Oct 31, 2025 thread
Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)
HN 180 pts 330 comments by birdculture Feb 26, 2026 thread
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
HN 178 pts 88 comments by birdculture Feb 8, 2026 thread
More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage (thundergolfer.com)
HN 176 pts 60 comments by birdculture Oct 27, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread