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The End of an Athlon

Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333 Points: 47 # Comments: 7
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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

Article URL: https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406387 Points: 33 # Comments: 2
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Why I Switched to Opaquer for My WPF Project (And Never Looked Back)

As a developer who's been building .NET WPF applications for years, I've wrestled with the same problem everyone faces: how do you protect your intellectual property without breaking your UI? I recently finished a major WPF project targeting .NET 10, and the obfuscation journey taught me a lot. I wanted to share my experience with Opaquer - the tool that finally solved my WPF obfuscation nightmares. The WPF Obfuscation Nightmare If you've ever tried to obfuscate a WPF app ...
ByteByteGo in 2026: Is It Still Worth It for System Design Interview Prep?
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ByteByteGo in 2026: Is It Still Worth It for System Design Interview Prep?

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article. Credit - ByteByteGo Hello Devs, if you're preparing for a System Design interview in 2026 , there is a good chance you've come across ByteByteGo and its founder, Alex Xu, author of another popular System Design interview resource and book, the System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide . But with so many sy...
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Understanding the Git Workflow: Working Directory, Staging, Commit and Push

Working through a practical reference to moving a change through Git took me through the process of taking a single change from my local computer, committing it in Git, and pushing it to GitHub where others would be able to see it. This was written for complete Git Novices and so I approached it without any prior experience of using Git. By the end, you will be able to move a change through all four Git stages and confirm it's visible on GitHub with a clear commit history. Who Thi...
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React at 1000Hz: Optimizing Real-Time Performance

The Performance Wall: Why React Isn't a Data Buffer If you’ve ever built a real-time application—a trading dashboard, a crypto ticker, or a live sensor monitor—you’ve likely hit the "React Performance Wall." You pipe your WebSocket messages directly into useState , and suddenly, your browser becomes a stuttering, unresponsive mess. The culprit is simple but often misunderstood: React is a UI library, not a data buffer. When you treat React state as the ultimate source of truth for e...
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AI Agents Can Now Optimize Your Slow Java Code: A Spring Boot Workflow That Used to Need a Specialist

Last week a tweet went viral claiming that people complaining about LLM-generated bloat would "eat crow" once everything gets rewritten in hand-optimized assembly. Dan Luu, the engineer behind some of the most cited performance writing on the internet, responded with an essay titled "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore." It hit 620 points on Hacker News in about a day, and its argument should change how every Java team spends its next sprint. The core claim is simple and backed ...
skillcheck Update: Scorer Fixes, Cleaner Failures, Honest Token Numbers
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skillcheck Update: Scorer Fixes, Cleaner Failures, Honest Token Numbers

skillcheck is a static analyzer for SKILL.md files, the format agents like Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and Cursor use to load reusable skills. It validates frontmatter, scores description discoverability, checks file references, enforces token budgets, and flags cross-agent compatibility issues. No network calls, no LLM calls, no file mutations. Runs as a CLI, a GitHub Action, or a pre-commit hook. pip install skillcheck skillcheck skills/ Latest pass was hardening and accu...
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Why AI Virtual Staging Needs Constraints More Than It Needs More Creativity

A generic image model is rewarded for producing a convincing picture. A virtual-staging system has a stricter job: produce a convincing picture without changing the property being represented . That distinction sounds small until you build a workflow around real listing photos. A beautiful render can still be unusable if a window moves, a doorway narrows, the floor line bends, or the apparent depth of the room changes. The model has improved the image while damaging the information. This ...
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Kubernetes Architecture

Control Plane (Master) & Worker Nodes Control Plane components: API Server Scheduler Control Manager etcd Worker Node components: Container Runtime Kubelet Kube-proxy Node Processes Each node has multiple Pods on it. 3 processes must be installed on every node — used to schedule and manage those Pods. Nodes are cluster services that actually do the work. Container Runtime Examples: Docker, containerd, CRI-O. containerd is used in ...
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Creating Bluesky starter packs from code: three AT Protocol records and one non-idempotency trap

Bluesky starter packs look like a single thing in the app — a shareable page that lets a new user follow a curated group in one tap. At the protocol level they are three separate records glued together by references, and if you create them from code (we do, as part of an automated outreach pipeline), the decomposition matters: it decides what you can update later, what you can only create once, and where a naive script will quietly make a mess. The three records Everything below ...
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483 tests passed, but Vestibule RAG framework wasn't installable — lessons from building with AI agents

I spent two months building Vestibule, an open-source Python framework for the boring layer of RAG ingestion — stable document IDs, a state ledger, error classification, per-vertical governance. The parts every team struggles with once the demo works and production doesn't. Most of the code wasn't typed by me. Four AI agents did the work — one wrote designs, one reviewed them, one implemented, one reviewed the code — all through real GitHub pull requests, with me signing off at every gate. Th...
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why some people use neovim

I'm use neovim in cli like in my home but im not use Ide before in my live my first try pc is arch linux and neovim So I think I'm the best person to ask what is special in neovim 1: is so lightweight use ram is just 50-20 mb ram 2: you can config anything in lua language 3: open into terminal ssh protocol edit in code into server 4: vim keybinding like Vim / Neovim Keybindings Cheat Sheet Navigation (Normal Mode) h / j / k / l : Move Left /...
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How I built an FVG trading bot for OKX and made 99% of its signals useless on purpose

How I built an FVG trading bot for OKX and made 99% of its signals useless on purpose If you trade crypto futures, you know the drill. You're staring at the chart at 3am because you're scared to blink and miss "the perfect entry". Or worse, you get in emotionally, chase a pump, and hand back all your profit in one bad night. I got liquidated once because my stop was at -5% and the liquidation price was at -2%. Price gapped straight through my stop. That's how this project started. I bu...
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Building a Community Wiki Around a Privacy-First Search Engine

The problem: a search engine needs more than a search box findnix.eu is a EU-based, privacy-first search engine — "Find alles, speichere nix" (find everything, store nothing) is the tagline. Once real users started using it, the support questions started too: how does the spam filter work, why isn't my site indexed yet, what data do you actually store, how do I report a fake shop I found in the results? Answering the same questions over email doesn't scale, and a single flat FAQ page do...
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I built an open API for Nigeria's 752 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education

If you've ever tried to find a clean, structured, up-to-date list of Nigerian tertiary institutions, you've probably run into the same wall I did: every result is a static blog post or a PDF from a few years ago, half of them contradict each other, and none of them are usable as data — just prose to be re-typed by hand. There wasn't an open API for this. So I built one. What it is nigeria-tertiary-institutions-api is a free, open-source REST API and dataset covering every ...
Officially: farewell to Linear, Jira, and Trello 🚀
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Officially: farewell to Linear, Jira, and Trello 🚀

It's a Plan - the open-source tracker where humans and AI agents share one board. Your server, your database, your model keys. AGPL-3.0, no seats, no lock-in. croffasia / itsaplan Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Linear. Project management and issue tracking where teams and AI agents work side by side to plan and ship products. Open-source project management and issue tracking, ...
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An unlikely experiment

There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble around some of that codebase (even if you don't understand much) you might see an interesting pattern littered throughout: if ( unlikely ( condition_that_does_not_happen_much )) { // do thing } else { // do more common thing } What is this mysterious unlikely ? Why do we need to tell the computer th...
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Separating the Idea, State, and Artifact Planes in Agent Pipelines

The agent worked. The architecture didn't. This failure mode won't show up in your eval suite. An AI architect builds a personal automation pipeline: an agent scouts trending content, pipes ideas into a chat thread, he reacts, things get logged. The agent did its job. It found the trends, wrote them down, and responded when he asked it to. He killed it anyway, and not over hallucination or token cost. He killed it because everything lived in "a flat scroll of messages. No structure, no...
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Indexing Like a Jedi: How I Tamed My Database

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was building a tiny rate‑limiter for a side‑project API. The idea was simple: every request writes a row with user_id and requested_at (a timestamp) into a rate_limit_log table, and before allowing the request we count how many rows exist for that user in the last minute. If the count exceeds the limit we reject the request. At first it felt like a breeze. I threw together a quick migration, wrote the query, and hit “run”. The first few requests flew...
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How I Decide a RAXXO Tool Needs a Redesign, Not a Patch

I track three signals before I touch a shipped RAXXO tool's core screens again A patch fixes one report, a redesign answers the same complaint from four different users in a month The kill switch buys me the room to redesign without breaking anyone mid session I never touch export formats or saved URLs during a redesign, only the screens around them The Line Between a Patch and a Redesign Every RAXXO tool gets bug reports. Most of them are patches. A button that do...
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The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It

I graded 18 dated AI predictions from the last two years against what actually happened. The scoreboard is brutal, and the one guy who scored well got nothing for it. In March 2025, Dario Amodei told the Council on Foreign Relations that AI would be writing 90% of code within three to six months, and essentially all of it within twelve. That twelve-month deadline passed in March. Almost nobody went back to check. That is the strange etiquette of AI forecasting. The predictions are loud, d...
Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path
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Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path

Hello World 🖖. Welcome to my first article on Dev.to, and what's a better way to start than to start with a bang 💥! I will be starting a series journaling my learning journey towards acquiring my Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate. Google Skills, in partnership with MentorMe Collective, has provided an Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate Path with credits for learning. In this article, I will take you on a tour of Google Cloud Courses and Hands-on Labs, and also introduce Gemini...