The Boring Breach
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<!-- SC_OFF -->I logged into the database and everything was gone. Not corrupted, not encrypted, just deleted and replaced with a polite request for Bitcoin. The strange part was not the ransom note. It was realizing the damage happened months after the real mistake. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Unhappy_Concept237 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Unhappy_Concept237)
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Using Floating-point in C++: What Works, What Breaks, and Why - Egor Suvorov - CppCon 2025
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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qnlk8z/after_two_years_of_vibecoding_im_back_to_writing/

<!-- SC_OFF -->An interesting perspective. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/BinaryIgor (https://www.reddit.com/user/BinaryIgor)
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PULS v0.5.1 Released - A Rust-based detailed system monitoring and editing dashboard on TUI
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qnq7uj/puls_v051_released_a_rustbased_detailed_system/

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Kubernetes Remote Code Execution Via Nodes/Proxy GET Permission
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qns00q/kubernetes_remote_code_execution_via_nodesproxy/

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Admiran: a pure, lazy functional programming language and self-hosting compiler
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qnswpp/admiran_a_pure_lazy_functional_programming/

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Clawdbot and vibe coding have the same flaw. Someone else decides when you get hacked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qo7cmi/clawdbot_and_vibe_coding_have_the_same_flaw/

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When “just spin” hurts performance and breaks under real schedulers
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qo9qob/when_just_spin_hurts_performance_and_breaks_under/

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Lessons from running an 8-hour TCP stress test on Windows (latency, CPU, memory)
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qocluk/lessons_from_running_an_8hour_tcp_stress_test_on/

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Simpler JVM Project Setup with Mill 1.1.0
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qoctbm/simpler_jvm_project_setup_with_mill_110/

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Digital Excommunication - The need for an European tech ecosystem
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qodcf5/digital_excommunication_the_need_for_an_european/

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Designing Error Types in Rust Applications
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qodfji/designing_error_types_in_rust_applications/

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PC Port of Banjo-Kazooie made using N64: Recompiled
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qogvk1/pc_port_of_banjokazooie_made_using_n64_recompiled/

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How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qoj5mb/how_i_estimate_work_as_a_staff_software_engineer/

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The Cost of Certainty: Why Perfect is the Enemy of Scale in Distributed Systems
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qokaan/the_cost_of_certainty_why_perfect_is_the_enemy_of/

<!-- SC_OFF -->Even in 2026, no AI can negotiate with the speed of light. ⚛️ As an architect, I’ve realized our biggest expense isn't compute—it’s the Certainty Tax. We pay a massive premium to pretend the world isn't chaotic, but production is pure entropy. I just wrote a deep dive on why we need to stop chasing 100% consistency at scale. Using Pokémon GO as a sandbox, I audited: The Math: Why adding a sidecar can cost you 22 hours of sleep a year. The Sandbox: Why catch history can lie, but player trading must be painfully slow. The Law: How Little’s Law proves that patience in a concurrent system is a liability. If you’ve ever wrestled with PACELC or consensus algorithms, I’d love to hear your thoughts on where you choose to relax your constraints. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Level-Sink3315 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Level-Sink3315)
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4 Pyrefly Type Narrowing Patterns that make Python Type Checking more Intuitive
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qolknv/4_pyrefly_type_narrowing_patterns_that_make/

<!-- SC_OFF -->Since Python is a duck-typed language, programs often narrow types by checking a structural property of something rather than just its class name. For a type checker, understanding a wide variety of narrowing patterns is essential for making it as easy as possible for users to type check their code and reduce the amount of changes made purely to “satisfy the type checker”. In this blog post, we’ll go over some cool forms of narrowing that Pyrefly supports, which allows it to understand common code patterns in Python. To the best of our knowledge, Pyrefly is the only type checker for Python that supports all of these patterns. Contents: 1. hasattr/getattr 2. tagged unions 3. tuple length checks 4. saving conditions in variables Blog post: https://pyrefly.org/blog/type-narrowing/ Github: https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/BeamMeUpBiscotti (https://www.reddit.com/user/BeamMeUpBiscotti)
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The Age of Pump and Dump Software
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qon4yu/the_age_of_pump_and_dump_software/

<!-- SC_OFF -->A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026 <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Gil_berth (https://www.reddit.com/user/Gil_berth)
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Glaze is getting even faster – SIMD refactoring and crazy whitespace skipping in the works
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qoonvl/glaze_is_getting_even_faster_simd_refactoring_and/

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GNU C Library moving from Sourceware to Linux Foundation hosted CTI
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Panoptic Segmentation using Detectron2
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qopi7p/panoptic_segmentation_using_detectron2/

<!-- SC_OFF -->For anyone studying Panoptic Segmentation using Detectron2, this tutorial walks through how panoptic segmentation combines instance segmentation (separating individual objects) and semantic segmentation (labeling background regions), so you get a complete pixel-level understanding of a scene. It uses Detectron2’s pretrained COCO panoptic model from the Model Zoo, then shows the full inference workflow in Python: reading an image with OpenCV, resizing it for faster processing, loading the panoptic configuration and weights, running prediction, and visualizing the merged “things and stuff” output. Video explanation: https://youtu.be/MuzNooUNZSY Medium version for readers who prefer Medium : https://medium.com/image-segmentation-tutorials/detectron2-panoptic-segmentation-made-easy-for-beginners-9f56319bb6cc Written explanation with code: https://eranfeit.net/detectron2-panoptic-segmentation-made-easy-for-beginners/ This content is shared for educational purposes only, and constructive feedback or discussion is welcome. Eran Feit <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Feitgemel (https://www.reddit.com/user/Feitgemel)
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Introducing Script: JavaScript That Runs Like Rust
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