Nik Malykhin had to run a Java 1.5 base on modern hardware. The first answers from his LLM were plausible, but did not hold up to scrutiny. The breakthrough: stop believing it at face value, force it to rely on evidence.
yesterday 9 8
A Martin Fowler article brings DSLs back into focus: not to impress the experts, but to give the LLM a narrow target where it can make recoverable mistakes.
Jul 15, 2026 at 19:29 9 6
Babel stopped when men stopped understanding each other. With the agents, construction continues after the collapse of shared understanding. No one notices anything.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 9 6
New arXiv paper: programmers are not only bad judges of LLM-generated assertions - they are overconfident in their judgment. The combo that derails AI code review.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:13 11 8
Cloudflare identified a concurrency bug in hyper, the HTTP/1 crate of the Rust ecosystem: under certain timing coincidences, a large response could be silently truncated - 200 OK, body cut. Fix upstream.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:17 10 8
A post is making the rounds on HN: coding in 2026 is less about producing lines of code and more about arbitrating context, data, and structure. The discipline is shifting.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:15 11 7
A Rust port of PostgreSQL now passes all official regression tests. This is not a toy - it's a signal.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 12 10
