Stories by programer

WordPress Playground: 2025 Year in Review

The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021)

Maintaining the Fastest CDN at Netflix on FreeBSD

Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)

Diagnosing a Linux Performance Regression

GPS Week Number Rollover

It’s not wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36

It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)

Cosmological Principle

Thinking makes LLMs worse at translation

The more LLMs think, the worse they translate

Dream Recoder

Ask HN: How do I market to consumers as a solo dev about to go to uni?

Show HN: Open-source translator that critiques+combines many LLM outputs

Automattic is going to contribute to WordPress Core again

Experimentation Matters: Why Nuenki isn't using pairwise evaluations

Show HN: Hybrid Language Translator

Llama 4 performs worse than Llama 3 at translation

Openrouter – Quasar Alpha

Whatever Quasar Alpha is, it's excellent at translation

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