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Nine Rules for a Programmer
Article URL: https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/nine-rules/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741103
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Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust
Article URL: https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741051
Points: 1
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Chinese factories build firetrucks for $400k in 6wk. US it's $2M in 4 years [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nZ-JJNmzQ
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741045
Points: 2
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Helping Turkish entrepreneurs launch global companies – Sirket.io
Article URL: https://www.sirket.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741027
Points: 1
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Every web application that may need scale later should be a distributed system
If you know your web application will not need scale ever, then you don't need a distributed system.
However, learning distribtued system design is not that complicated unless you are an entry-level developer.
I guess people who tell others to not care about scalability for a software startup are probably marketers, hustlers, or financiers who consider product building as someone else's responsibility and are willing to discard failing products and hire developers for a new product. They typically try to fail quickly, discard companies, and start new ones. That's why these types love starting with agency businesses which don't require product development. You can learn a lot from them, but if you are a solo software entrepreneur, product development is your responsibility, and you should learn distributed system design before writing code or starting a business. You wouldn't hire entry-level engineers for your business, would you?
I think it's valuable to learn distributed system design and basic software engineering techniques like unit tests and documentation and functional programming and simplcity-oriented software design(rich hickey's simple made easy).
After you learn basic software engineering and distributed system design, you can reuse these design patterns over and over for the rest of your life and move quickly as a solo software entrepreneur.
It's a one-time cost that pays for the rest of your life. Design is cheap. Fixing a production system that has a fundamentally broken design that can't scale is very expensive. Solo software entrepreneurs should start with a solid distributed system design instead of trying to bolt scalability and solid software engineering practices onto production web applications. Many other online businesses suffered scalability issues so that you don't have to. You don't have to learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from other people's mistakes.
You can be a marketer or a hustler as a solo software entrepreneur once you learn distributed system design and basic software engineering.
Solo software entrepreneurs shouldn't try to copy marketers and financiers who have money to hire quality engineers.
I also recommend not using SaaS frameworks because the cost will snowball if you try to grow. AWS lambda isn't really free of infrastructure management. If you use SaaS, use ones that you can easily migrate away from. You don't want to be locked into specific vendors.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741015
Points: 1
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741013
Points: 10
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Layered Design in Go
Article URL: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/go_layered_design/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740992
Points: 2
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Accessible Color Palette Generator
Article URL: https://thisisfranciswu.com/enterprise-ui-palette-generator/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740951
Points: 1
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OrangePi RV2: The New Reference SBC for RISC-V Enthusiasts
Article URL: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-review/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740903
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Welcome to the Era of Experience – By David Silver and Richard Sutton [pdf]
Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Era-of-Experience%20/The%20Era%20of%20Experience%20Paper.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740858
Points: 3
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Jujutsu: Different Approach to Versioning
Article URL: https://thisalex.com/posts/2025-04-20/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740846
Points: 2
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A curated blog for learning LLM internals: tokenize, attention, PE, and more
I've been diving deep into the internals of Large Language Models (LLMs) and started documenting my findings. My blog covers topics like:
Tokenization techniques (e.g., BBPE)
Attention mechanism (e.g. MHA, MQA, MLA)
Positional encoding and extrapolation (e.g. RoPE, NTK-aware interpolation, YaRN)
Architecture details of models like QWen, LLaMA
Training methods including SFT and Reinforcement Learning
If you're interested in the nuts and bolts of LLMs, feel free to check it out: http://comfyai.app/
I'd appreciate any feedback or discussions!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740813
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Lasers in a Loop: How a Micro Ring Just Shattered Quantum Limits
Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/lasers-in-a-loop-how-a-micro-ring-just-shattered-quantum-limits/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740812
Points: 1
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Subnanosecond Flash Memory
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08839-w
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740803
Points: 1
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SteamNix OS
Article URL: https://github.com/SteamNix/SteamNix
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740739
Points: 3
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Climate change and human interventions drive greening of the Thar desert
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-monsoons-groundwater-climate-human-interventions.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740718
Points: 2
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Language Showcase: Lux (2022)
Article URL: https://compilerspotlight.substack.com/p/language-showcase-lux
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740702
Points: 1
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Ractopamine
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740673
Points: 1
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Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Beijing Marathon
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/beijing-half-marathon-humanoid-robots/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740654
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Show HN: Show HN: Containerized remote attestation with TPM-style hash chaining
I’ve been exploring how remote attestation works and wanted to understand it more deeply, so I built a simple prover–verifier system in Python. It uses TPM-style PCR hash extension, nonces for freshness, and Docker to simulate real-world isolation. The verifier has a web UI where you can upload files to define trusted state, and the prover measures those files and submits a signed quote.
It’s not production-grade, but I’d love feedback if you’re into systems security or want to learn a bit about how attestation works under the hood.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740635
Points: 1
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