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Programming
Why xor eax, eax?
https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax

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xania.org
Why xor eax, eax? — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?
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Programming
Duplication Isn’t Always an Anti-Pattern
https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/rethinking-duplication-c1f85f1c0102

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Medium
Rethinking Duplication
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
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Programming
ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
https://packagemain.tech/p/ulid-identifier-golang-postgres

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ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
Using ULID identifiers in Go programs running on Postgres database.
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Programming
The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes
https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/

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From the programming community on Reddit: The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes
Posted by self - 161 votes and 76 comments
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Programming
Is this code clean? A critical look at Clean Code 2nd Edition
https://bugzmanov.github.io/cleancode-critique/clean_code_second_edition_review.html

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Clean Code Second Edition Review: Same Style, Same Problems
A review of Clean Code Second Edition (2024). The core style remains unchanged: tiny functions, parameters as class state, no comments.
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Programming
Bun is joining Anthropic
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

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Bun
Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
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Programming
Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
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LWN.net
Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for [...]
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Programming
Amber the programming language compiled to Bash, 0.5.1 release
https://docs.amber-lang.com/getting_started/whats_new

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Documentation for Amber programming language
Amber Documentation
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Programming
The 50MB Markdown Files That Broke Our Server
https://glama.ai/blog/2025-12-03-the-50mb-markdown-files-that-broke-our-server

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Glama – MCP Hosting Platform
I spent a month debugging why our service availability was all over the place. Turns out we had some 50MB markdown files hiding in our database.
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Programming
Google's vibe coding platform deletes entire drive
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/

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The Register
Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence
: Caveat coder
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Programming
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k

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Alex Schapiro
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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Programming
Booting a Linux kernel in qemu and writing PID 1 in Go (to show the kernel is "just a program")
https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/

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Reddit
From the programming community on Reddit: Booting a Linux kernel in qemu and writing PID 1 in Go (to show the kernel is "just a…
Posted by indieHungary - 193 votes and 25 comments
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Programming
Build your own ChatGPT from scratch in C++
https://github.com/ryanssenn/torchless

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GitHub
GitHub - ryanssenn/torchless: High-speed LLM inference in C/C++
High-speed LLM inference in C/C++. Contribute to ryanssenn/torchless development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Programming
Meta Is Killing Messenger Desktop Apps… PWAs Are Finally Taking Over?
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-is-shutting-down-its-mac-and-windows-messenger-apps-what-you-need-to-know/

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CNET
Meta Is Shutting Down Its Mac and Windows Messenger Apps. What You Need to Know
Here's what you need to do before the apps disappear at the end of the year.
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Programming
Remember XKCD’s legendary dependency comic? I finally built the thing we all joked about.
https://stacktower.io/

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stacktower.io
Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive
How an XKCD comic led to teaching myself graph theory — a journey through NP-hard problems, PQ-trees, and layered graph algorithms.
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Programming
Prompt injection within GitHub Actions: Google Gemini and multiple other fortunate 500 companies vulnerable
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/promptpwnd-github-actions-ai-agents

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www.aikido.dev
Prompt Injection Inside GitHub Actions: The New Frontier of Supply Chain Attacks
AI-driven GitHub Actions expose new prompt-injection supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Programming
Anthropic Internal Study Shows AI Is Taking Over Boring Code. But Is Software Engineering Losing Its Soul?
https://www.interviewquery.com/p/anthropic-ai-skill-erosion-report

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Interview Query
Inside Anthropic: 27% of Work Now Done by AI — But Engineers Warn of Growing Skill Erosion
Anthropic’s internal 2025 study reveals that 27% of work is now completed by AI tools like Claude, boosting productivity but raising concerns among engineers about skill atrophy, changing workflows, and the future of software development.
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Programming
Petition: Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript.
https://javascript.tm/letter

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JavaScript™
We need your help to continue our fight over Oracle's claim to the JavaScript trademark. Here's where we are now and what you can do to help.
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Programming
Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency
https://systemdr.substack.com/p/distributed-lock-failure-how-long

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Substack
Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency
When Your Distributed Lock Lies to You
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Programming
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/

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Lalit Maganti
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech.
On paper, I fit the…
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