Articles by vinhnx
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6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)

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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (fabiensanglard.net)

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AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality (2024) (kadoa.com)

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Just Let Me Write Digits (gendignoux.com)

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AI Should Build Its Own Research World Model (evolvinglab.ai)

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The Salience of Data (mbi-deepdives.com)

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The Spec Ceiling: Why AI Coding Speed Moves the Bottleneck to Product Discovery (magnus919.com)

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Getting Started with Anchor Positioning (joshwcomeau.com)

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Apache Kafka Performance (jack-vanlightly.com)

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Some New Agentic Patterns (fsck.com)

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Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) (ntietz.com)

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Together for a Healthier Clippy (rust-lang.org)

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An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Embedding Information in Disorder (hmmz.org)

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The Evolution of Agents: From Context Engineering to Long-Running Harnesses (jinyansu1.github.io)

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What should a personal website be? (ratfactor.com)

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A Novel Look at Error Handling in Rust (jtjlehi.github.io)

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ABI vs. API (2004) (debian.org)

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You Feel Exhausted Without Having "Done" Anything Physically (facilethings.com)

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2026)

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Async: What Is Blocking? (2022) (ryhl.io)

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Building an Intern (cra.mr)

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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)

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Properties of AI (claude.com)

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Rewriting the World in Rust (bitfieldconsulting.com)

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Pixar's Believable People (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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A man who did nothing, brilliantly (theidlegazette.beehiiv.com)

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Reinventing the Wheel, Now at a Bargain Price (zwischenzugs.com)

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How Do Solar Panels Work? (perthirtysix.com)

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Train LLM from Scratch (fareedkhan-dev.github.io)

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Build your project Zig-style (fnordig.de)

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Rust Prevents Data Races, Not Race Conditions (corrode.dev)

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How the AI Village Works (theaidigest.org)

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The Difference Between Rest and Idleness (idle.news)

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Image Compression (makingsoftware.com)

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Animation Vocabulary (animations.dev)

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Notes on DeepSeek

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Loop Engineering (addyosmani.com)

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The world of Japanese train melodies [video] (youtube.com)

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Async Rust: deep dive into cooperative scheduling and Tokio's architecture (kerkour.com)

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Memory safety is a matter of life and death (joshlf.com)

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AI is a Meteor. Don't be a Dinosaur (windowsontheory.org)

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1970: Could Machines Become Intelligent? [video] (youtube.com)

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Full-Pipeline Inference Optimization for MiMo-v2.5 Series (xiaomi.com)

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Lisa Su Address to MIT Class of 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

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Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com/vinhnx)

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Managers Are Struggling to Keep Up with the AI Productivity Boom (hbr.org)

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The AI Bifurcation of Tech: Why the fundamentals matter more (neevash.com)

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Understanding Systems (entropicthoughts.com)

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The Open/Closed Problem in AI (mempko.com)

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What is Git made of? (2022) (zserge.com)

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Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)

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DeepSeek-V4 KV Cache Explained: Why 1M Context Uses Less VRAM (knightli.com)

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What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now? (brooker.co.za)

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Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue (stackoverflow.blog)

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It's Time to Walk (inferterra.com)

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Why Every IKEA Product Has a Weird Name [video] (youtube.com)

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All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs (kottke.org)

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AI as a Design Medium (harvarddesignmagazine.org)

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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere (2020) (ferd.ca)

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You can't whisper at an AI agent (stripe.dev)

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Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years (caio.ca)

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OpenAI for Singapore (openai.com)

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How to Select a Mobile OS (gridranger.dev)

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Always Be Blaming (matklad.github.io)

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"Simple Made Easy" – Rich Hickey (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

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Zerodep (2023) (philipbohun.com)

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Lessons Learned Building High-Performance Rust Profiler (pawelurbanek.com)

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MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us (mataroa.blog)

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A Mental Model for Agentic Work (basti.io)

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How to Work and Compound with AI (eugeneyan.com)

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Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem (martinalderson.com)

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Show HN: VT Code – Rust coding agent with AST-validated shell and OS sandboxing (github.com/vinhnx)

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Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right (werd.io)

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Why TUIs Are Back (alcidesfonseca.com)

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The Last Software Engineer (epicproduct.engineer)

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[dupe] If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)

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A text editor as a user interface (ratfactor.com)

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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering [video] (youtube.com)

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Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)

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Scroll-Driven Animations (joshwcomeau.com)

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Show HN: VT Code – Rust coding agent with AST-level code intelligence (github.com/vinhnx)

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ASML Bibliography (neilhacker.com)

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The unwritten laws of software engineering (manager.dev)

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Agentic Engineering Management (peterszasz.com)

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Orchestrating AI Code Review at Scale (cloudflare.com)

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Welcome to the "find out" stage of AI (stackoverflow.blog)

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Bitwarden Encrypts and Decrypts Secrets (miguelgrinberg.com)

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Inside Satoshi Kon's Last, Unfinished Movie (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better (jakub.kr)

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Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting (slicker.me)

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Caching Expensive Functions in Rust (kocharhook.com)

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What Happens When You Build an Inode-Style Vector in Rust (sot.dev)

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Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support (github.com/vinhnx)

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How Hard Is It to Open a File? (sebastianwick.net)

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A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all (augmentcode.com)

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The Edge of Safe Rust (kyju.org)

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Pretrain vs. Fine-Tune (r2.dev)

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The Process Is the Art (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi (connla.substack.com)