रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)

Shedding this inhibition is important, even if you’re not an extrovert:

“The Stranger Secret: How To Talk To Anyone – And Why You Should”, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/24/stranger-secret-how-to-talk-to-anyone-why-you-should).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214864

#Talking #Listening #Life #Conversation #Strangers #Isolation

Slices combine a mutable vector with a (seemingly) read-only view – a big mistake in #Go, leading to the foot-guns here & in the discussions 😓:

“Sliced By Go’s Slices”, Ohad Ravid (https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-02-go-sliced/).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/o3cpxf/sliced_by_go_s_slices

#Programming #GoLang #PLDI

#PSA: Wait for the food-poisoning to kick in before rating an outlet on #Swiggy – they don’t let you change it later. 😒

Take photos of all dishes before eating – Swiggy demands it to report food-safety issues. 😠

O4H (Order For Health): Never ordering from them again! 😡

Oh man! This hits hard 😢:

“I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, And The Thing I Loved Has Changed”, James Randall (https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960675

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/7iford/i_started_programming_when_i_was_7_i_m_50_now

#Programming #Coding #Nostalgia #AI #Experience

Interesting (but controversial in the HN comments 😬):

“Blue Light Filters Don’t Work”, Patrick Mineault, NeuroAI (https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091606

#Sleep #Health #Brain #CircadianRhythm #BlueLight #NightShift #DarkMode #Light #Eyes

Nice article, but the all-lowercase titling is so jarring:

“Six Thoughts On Generating C”, Andy Wingo (https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945235

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/j8jnqq/six_thoughts_on_generating_c

#Programming #C #PLDI #Compilers #CodeGeneration #ProgramSynthesis

Another excellent post 👌🏽 from Russ Cox 👇🏽🫡:

“Floating-Point Printing And Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast” (https://research.swtch.com/fp).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685317

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/nbsclr/floating_point_printing_parsing_can_be

#Programming #Math #FloatingPoint #Numbers #PLDI #Parsing #Printing

“The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About The Future Of Software”, Chris Lattner (https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097006 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009024

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/wk6rjh/claude_c_compiler_what_it_reveals_about

#LLVM #Compilers #AI #C #ClaudeCCompiler #ClaudeCode #CCC

💯!

“Notes On Clarifying Man Pages”, Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065972

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/zpifkh/notes_on_clarifying_man_pages

#Unix #Linux #Manuals #ManPages #Documentation #Learning

Informative:

“How Many Registers Does An x86-64 CPU Have?” [2020], William Woodruff (https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/11/30/How-many-registers-does-an-x86-64-cpu-have).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014405

#Intel #AMD #x86 #Hardware #CPU #ISA #SIMD #Architecture

Nice – I’m not an EM, but this 👇🏽 rings true based on vicarious experience:

“Things I’ve Learned In My 10 Years As An Engineering Manager”, Jampa Uchoa (https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709270

#EM #Manager #EngineeringManager #SoftwareEngineering #Advice

I’ve always preferred to take afternoon naps (but it isn’t usually feasible on workdays 🥱) – the bit about long naps is concerning 😥:

“How To Get Power Naps Right”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/23/how-to-get-power-naps-right or https://archive.is/Rqz8V).

#Naps #Sleep #Health

The RRBC Piccassso guys have been *destroying* the peace in the Jayanagar 4th T & 9th Block neighborhoods in Bangalore for *days* with loud religious songs & speech day & night, but neither the police nor the MLA are willing to do anything about it. 😡

#NoisePollution

Wonderful:

“10 Years Of Wasm: A Retrospective”, The Bytecode Alliance (https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/ten-years-of-webassembly-a-retrospective).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799014

#Internet #Web #WASM #WebAssembly #Bytecode #VirtualMachine #Mozilla #Google #JavaScript #Portability #Programming #Retrospective

A must-read #paper 👇🏽 if you use #AI to boost your #productivity:

“How AI Impacts Skill Formation”, Judy Hanwen Shen & Alex Tamkin, Anthropic (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821360

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/k6fjcb/how_ai_impacts_skill_formation

#Skills #Expertise #Career

💖🍒🍎🍐:

“Meet The Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings For Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From The Kitchen Table” [2024], Smithsonian Magazine (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/meet-italian-fruit-detective-who-investigates-centuries-old-paintings-clues-produce-180985227/).

#Fruits #Italy #Painting #Renaissance #Art #Biodiversity