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Location: Thailand (I have a work visa; no sponsorship needed) Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Compilers, interpreters, language runtimes, distribute…

Now all the malware can move from the install script to the module itself where it will inevitably still be run

If only there were some kind of system for recording the version history and viewing what changes had been made to the code between releases.

PhD in Computer Science with 15+ years experience bridging the gap between the worlds of compilers/interpreters and scientific & business workflow orchestration systems. The world …

I've always been of the view that for a workflow language, you should use a proper, turing-complete functional language which gives you all the usual flexiblity for transformations…

> Every single one of them oversells their capacity That sounds like their problem, not ours

Unless a violation of that contract can lead to a crash or security vulnerability...

The most important one in the context of 2025 is this one: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

Flagged because this takes you to a random website so everyone is going to be reading a different article. I love Kagi as a search engine, and this is a cool idea, but posting a "r…

For some people it's a job. For others it's a calling. Nothing wrong with either - I just think it's worth being aware that people have different motivations.

Why do all the AI agents on the services page have human names and profile pictures if there are "no humans in the loop"?

There was a post on HN the other day where someone was launching an email assistant that used AI to summarise emails that you received. The idea didn't excite me, it scared me. I r…

Create the problem, sell the solution.

I thought vibe coding tools did this already

If there's one thing I definitely don't want AI in the middle of, it's communication with other people. The potential for misunderstandings due to hallucination in summaries, both …

I'm honestly curious why Apple (and other OS vendors like MS and various Linux distributions) still feel the need to tweak their UIs many, many years after having reached maturity.…