An LLM doesn’t write correct code, it writes plausible code
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database: Doing a primary key lookup on 100 rows. SQLite takes 0.09 ms. An LLM-generated Rust rewrite takes 1,815.43 ms. It’s not a misplaced comma! The rewrite is 20,171 times slower on one of the most basic database operations. The thing is though: The code […]
I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again
I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again 58 points by shannoncc 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 23 comments I’m ready to retire. In my younger days, I remember a few pivotal moments for me as a young nerd. Active Server Pages. COM components. VB6. I know these […]
Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2)
Volume 2: The Engine Of Empire Skip to main content The Lydian Stone Series Top level navigation menu Menu ← Prev Issue READ HERE Next Issue → In issue #2, The Engine of Empire, Marcus and his master, Gaius, find themselves facing disaster after Pompeii’s destruction. With most of their wool workers dead or injured […]
C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper
I recently spent time digging into a production performance issue. The application was running hot — CPU averaging over 50% and spiking into the 90s. We pulled a diagnostic snapshot and started working through the top queries by CPU time. The number one offender? A straightforward Dapper query. Simple WHERE clause on an indexed column. […]
The Window Chrome of Our Discontent
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
this css proves me human
Capitalization is the first wound. It hurts less than I thought it would. The words spill out capitalized, so I must find another way. cat post.md | tr A-Z a-z | sponge post.md is too crude a tool, and my blocks of code must remain inviolate. Careful targeting of text-transform: lowercase is enough. Em dashes. […]
Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds
2 i. Exec. Order No. 14193 — Imposing Duties to Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. 9113 (Feb. 1, 2025) (the “Canada Tariff EO”); ii. Exec. Order No. 14194 — Imposing Duties to Address the Situation at Our Southern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. […]
The Shady World of IP Leasing
2026-03-03 The IPv4 ”exhaustion” is not real. The addresses got hoarded and the market devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where anyone can choose where their IPs appear from, who owns them on paper, and scrub them clean of any history. IPv4 ”Exhaustion” is a Myth You’ve heard it a thousand times: we’ve run out […]
The worst acquisition in history, again
After six months and eight failed bids, the Ellisons made the Warner Bros. Discovery board an offer they couldn’t refuse. The potential Netflix acquisition would’ve been akin to fusing LVMH and Walmart — HBO’s prestige TV and Warner’s iconic IP, plus Netflix’s scale. Paramount Skydance buying WBD is the fusion of a dog and a […]
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
The results: The team found traces of wild grasses and legumes, fruits or berries, green vegetables, and roots and tubers native to the broader region. Shards recovered from sites in the Don River basin showed these people used the seeds of wild legumes (possibly clover) and grasses, as well as showing some evidence of bran […]