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121. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
122. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming. 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 mold he describes: I’m a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. After reflecting, however, I realized the problem wasn’t Sean’s writing but my reading. Sean isn’t being bleak; he is accurately describing how to deal with a world where engineers are fungible assets and priorities shift quarterly. But my job looks nothing like that and I know deep down that if I tried to operate in that environment or in the way he described I’d burn out within months. Instead I’ve followed an alternate path, one that optimizes for systems over spotlights, and stewardship over fungibility.
123. What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?
124. 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
125. Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?
126. Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
127. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
128. Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.
129. MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4
130. How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
It has been more than six months since my last post on the Rust compiler’s performance. In that time I lost one job and gained another. I have less time to work directly on the Rust compiler than I used to, but I am still doing some stuff, while also working on other interesting things.
131. Show HN: SerpApi MCP Server
SerpApi MCP Server for Google and other search engine results - serpapi/serpapi-mcp
132. SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
133. Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?
Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?
134. JavaScript Engines Zoo
135. RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
136. Everyone in Seattle hates AI
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
137. Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
138. Vanilla CSS is all you need
139. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
Wall Street lends billions to AI companies while using credit derivatives and sophisticated bonds to hedge against potential bubble risks.
140. $700 for a bed? San Francisco startup plots 'sleeping pod' expansion
Brownstone firm buys building with plan for 400 pods in city where median apartment rent tops $3,000 a month
141. Jolla Launches Community-Funded Linux Phone
Jolla launches its new Linux phone with a €99 refundable pre-order, aiming for 2,000 backers to begin production by early 2026.
142. Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years
143. Advent of Code 2025
144. Without evidence, RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.
145. GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
A tile-based Gaussian Splatting rendering system for infinitely expanding terrain
146. Windows Telemetry
As a follow-up to my world-renown Web browser telemetry article, which I will update soon, I promise, I decided to do a similar test to see which Windows edition and version performs the most network connections (and where to) after a default install.
147. Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
148. Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
149. A Most Important Mustard
On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology.
150. Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too