Articles by fagnerbrack
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Hayden Panetierre Dies at 36 (abcnews.com)

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[dupe] DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)

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DeepSeek is raising AI developer access prices by up to 1,100% starting Sunday (qz.com)

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What Your Manager Is Thinking When You Complain (adlerhsieh.com)

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Speak in the affirmative: "Do this" versus "Don't do that" (weskao.com)

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Predicting AI Job Exposure (ben-evans.com)

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Reorgs Happen (balter.com)

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Compensation Bands and Promotions (molochinations.substack.com)

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What Is Docker, and What It Silently Replaced (fagnerbrack.com)

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How to Improve Your First Principles Thinking Skills (philmckinney.com)

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How to Overcome Confirmation Bias (philmckinney.com)

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Show HN: I built Readplace on iOS – save links from any "share" button on iPhone (apps.apple.com)

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Skip-Level One-on-Ones (mgrebler.substack.com)

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I Don't Have a Manager Readme (emdiary.substack.com)

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Melissa M. Mikus: A simple solution to fix workplace miscommunication [video] (ted.com)

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Adam Aleksic: Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT? [video] (ted.com)

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com/pinterest-engineering)

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Things you didn't know about indexes (chrt.dev)

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A simple clustering algorithm for lists (cassidoo.co)

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A PDF Parser from the 80s Beats Claude (and They Use It Internally) (fagnerbrack.com)

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Email Is Crazy (samkhawase.com)

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Same Idea, Different Decade (fagnerbrack.com)

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Lean Programming Language (lean-lang.org)

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GitHub: TypeScript compiler and JavaScript engine in Lean (github.com/jessealama)

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Business Success: Luck, Not Merit (fagnerbrack.com)

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Software Engineering Laws (techworld-with-milan.com)

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AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers [video] (ted.com)

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I created OpenClaw, the breakthrough AI agent [video] (ted.com)

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Changelog Podcast: Exploring with Agents with Amelia Wattenberger (changelog.com)

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Writing Node.js Addons with .NET Native AOT (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)

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The Vertical Codebase (tkdodo.eu)

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Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Will superintelligent AI end the world? [video] (ted.com)

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How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking – Ted (magellan.ai)

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The uphill climb of making diff lines performant (github.blog)

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Uses for Nested Promises (jcoglan.com)

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Incorporate Monads and Category Theory (github.com/promises-aplus)

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Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To (cekrem.github.io)

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Going Beyond the Hyperlink (mamund.substack.com)

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What is inference engineering? Deepdive (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Show HN: Import the HN Home to a reading queue with clean reader view and TL;DR (readplace.com)

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Readplace: The read-it-later app for the AI era (readplace.com)

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CraftsmanSHIP. Not CraftsmanSHIT (fagnerbrack.com)

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LFM2 VL WebGPU (huggingface.co)

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Qwen3.5 WebGPU (huggingface.co)

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Readplace – A reading list app for the AI age – Read the web not the Slop (readplace.com)

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Voxtral Realtime WebGPU – A Hugging Face Space by Mistralai (huggingface.co)

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Release 4.0.0 · HuggingFace/Transformers.js (github.com/huggingface)

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Big tech engineers need big egos (seangoedecke.com)

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The unwritten laws of software engineering (manager.dev)

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Adam Garske: How designing new enzymes could change the world [video] (ted.com)

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The Smart Dumb Programmer (fagnerbrack.com)

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What we heard about Rust's challenges (rust-lang.org)

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SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness (brooker.co.za)

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Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers (fagnerbrack.com)

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Hybrid quota-linear rate limiter – Tony Finch (dotat.at)

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Chasing that next BIG thing with Drew Wilson (Changelog Interviews #639) (changelog.com)

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When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? (leodemoura.github.io)

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Supercharging Claude Code with the Right (CLI) Tools (batsov.com)

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The Perfect Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality (bastrich.tech)

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5chan.org (youtube.com)

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What spec-driven development gets wrong (augmentcode.com)

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The AI Great Leap Forward (A Warning) (mamund.substack.com)

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-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code (olano.dev)

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Show HN: I just built a scanned PDF text extractor for public PDFs (1-300 page) (readplace.com)

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The Mythical Agent-Month (wesmckinney.com)

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Programmers Spend Their Time – Probably Dance (probablydance.com)

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How we made Notion available offline (notion.com)

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What Is a REST API, and Why Yours Probably Isn't One (fagnerbrack.com)

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Semantic Search Without Embeddings (softwaredoug.com)

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Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing (fagnerbrack.com)

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Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API – Blog – incident.io (incident.io)

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Git: How to Undo a Commit Without Undoing Your Career (fagnerbrack.com)

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Multi-Core by Default – By Ryan Fleury – Digital Grove (dgtlgrove.com)

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Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind [video] (ted.com)

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Thinking about custom software in a new way (jerodsanto.net)

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[flagged] Agentic Engineering (addyosmani.com)

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Show HN: Readplace Read-It-Later Chrome Extension – Free the for First 100 (chromewebstore.google.com)

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The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture (leaflet.pub)

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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding (addyo.substack.com)

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How the Lobsters front page works – nilenso blog (nilenso.com)

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Becoming Unblockable (seangoedecke.com)

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React Hooks Explained (fagnerbrack.com)

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The Only Thing That Matters (commoncog.com)

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Names Are the First Thing You Read and the Last Thing You Remember (fagnerbrack.com)

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Becoming Unblockable (seangoedecke.com)

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Migrating 6000 React tests using AI Agents and ASTs (eliocapella.com)

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No Code Reviews by Default (raycast.com)

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Learn Algorithms for Interviews, Forget Them for Work (fagnerbrack.com)

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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)

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I Choose Email over Messaging (spinellis.gr)

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The TypeScript AI Framework – Mastra (mastra.ai)

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Show HN: Read.place/view – Reader view for any article and TL;DR summary (readplace.com)

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Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Japan. 3M tsunami expected (mainichi.jp)

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GitHub – Merit-Systems/Echo: The User Pays AI SDK (github.com/merit-systems)

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Development Gets Better with Age (allthingsdistributed.com)

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Anthropic Nerfed Opus 4.6 Before the 4.7 Launch (fagnerbrack.com)

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A new direction for AI developer tooling featuring creator of Tidewave (changelog.com)

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Tips for Probabilistic Software (jxnl.co)

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GitHub – Heyitsnoah/Claudesidian (github.com/heyitsnoah)