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  1. Tell HN: VSCode/Cursor Exploit Actively Used by Scammers

    I encountered this one personally - I was contacted on LinkedIn by someone interested in taking me on as a technical consultant. I agreed to meet with them. At the meeting, they asked me to clone their product's…

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  2. Ask HN: Has there been a "software crisis" since the 60s?

    I happened across this quote from prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra, circa 1968: "In the mid-sixties we observed what was then known as "the software failure" or "the software crisis". Its emergence was no surprise, its…

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  3. Ask HN: Business Logic in the Database?

    War story time: I once worked on a system where almost the entirety of the business logic was inside SQL stored procs. I think there were over 6000 of them, all tightly coupled, procs calling procs that call back to the…

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  4. AI Mistakes – bash scripts – pipefail and grep (medium.com)
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  5. When code is a maze, smart developers make maps (medium.com)
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  6. Agon, Alea, Mimicry and Ilinx

    Something esoteric I happened across this week that I thought was fascinating: in a book from 1968 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Play_and_Games), it's suggested that all forms of play combine 1 or more of 4 forms,…

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