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  1. Following the Unix philosophy without getting Left Pad (raku-advent.blog)
    3 points 0
  2. Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?

    Hacker News has an API¹ that doesn't require authentication and doesn't have a rate limit. Naively, that seems like a perfect recipe for DDoS attacks. Yet HN is typically a very reliable site. So what's the secret? Fn…

    14 points 24
  3. Court Says Bees Are Fish (loweringthebar.net)
    26 points 3
  4. Kickstarter for Brandon Sanderson’s new novels raises record £17m (theguardian.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Atmospheric CO2 causes lower protein, higher sugar content in modern crops (politico.com)
    4 points 0
  6. The Stakhanovite Movement (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 0
  7. Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas (cnbc.com)
    155 points 82
  8. Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad (raku-advent.blog)
    5 points 0
  9. OpenIndiana (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 1
  10. VCS friendly, patchable, document line wrapping (2016) (dustycloud.org)
    2 points 0
  11. Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (2012) (gist.github.com)
    2 points 2
  12. According to the BLS, are you a “computer programmer” or a “software developer”?

    I am a bit surprised by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics definitions of "computer programmer" and "software developer" and don't know which one applies to most developers I know. Here are the definitions: 15-1251…

    6 points 11
  13. Gang of Four (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  14. Raku's surprisingly good Lisp impression (codesections.com)
    8 points 0
  15. If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code (codesections.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Data-first and data-last: a comparison of APIs (2019) (javierchavarri.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Blink Principles of Web Compatibility (docs.google.com)
    2 points 1
  18. Can I get ‘long Covid’ if I’m infected after vaccination? (apnews.com)
    1 points 0
  19. Numbering should start at zero (1982) (cs.utexas.edu)
    1 points 0
  20. How large is interpersonal variation in programmer productivity really? (1999) [pdf] (page.mi.fu-berlin.de)
    2 points 0
  21. Monty Hall Problem and Variations: Intuitive Solutions (untrammeledmind.com)
    3 points 0
  22. Functional fixedness, lateral thinking, and the barometer question (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  23. Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) (2011) (blog.fogus.me)
    1 points 0
  24. Wikipedia – Criticisms of Programming Languages (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  25. The frame rate of the universe (2009) (librador.com)
    75 points 68