Programming

When a small open-source tool suddenly blows up, the experience is nothing like people imagine https://kaic.me/win-post-install/ https://redd.it/1pik37d @programmingreddit

Is vibe coding actually insecure? New CMU paper benchmarks vulnerabilities in agent-generated code http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03262 https://redd.it/1phf2f9 @programmingreddit

Microservices should form a polytree https://bytesauna.com/post/microservices https://redd.it/1ph6gus @programmingreddit

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin https://redd.it/1pgjrbd @programmingreddit

F-35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf https://redd.it/1pgq8vc @programmingreddit

Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT & SSO https://javarevisited.substack.com/p/system-design-basics-authentication https://redd.it/1pgfxs1 @programmingreddit

React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182): The Log4Shell moment for the frontend ecosystem, and nobody is ready https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/cve-2025-55182-react2shell-remote-code-execution-react-server-components/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://redd.it/1pfk5k6 @programmingreddit

Why ID Format Matters More Than ID Generation (Lessons from Production) https://piljoong.dev/posts/distributed-id-generation-complicated/ https://redd.it/1pf02wp @programmingreddit

Fizz Buzz in 4 lines of CSS https://mastodon.social/@susam/115668571178604230 https://redd.it/1pf41xp @programmingreddit

Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/ https://redd.it/1pekdhi @programmingreddit

Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency https://systemdr.substack.com/p/distributed-lock-failure-how-long https://redd.it/1pege3b @programmingreddit

Petition: Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript. https://javascript.tm/letter https://redd.it/1pe2ohc @programmingreddit

Anthropic Internal Study Shows AI Is Taking Over Boring Code. But Is Software Engineering Losing Its Soul? https://www.interviewquery.com/p/anthropic-ai-skill-erosion-report https://redd.it/1pdqgtj @programmingreddit

Prompt injection within GitHub Actions: Google Gemini and multiple other fortunate 500 companies vulnerable https://www.aikido.dev/blog/promptpwnd-github-actions-ai-agents https://redd.it/1pe3cew @programmingreddit

Remember XKCD’s legendary dependency comic? I finally built the thing we all joked about. https://stacktower.io/ https://redd.it/1pe2quy @programmingreddit

Meta Is Killing Messenger Desktop Apps… PWAs Are Finally Taking Over? https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-is-shutting-down-its-mac-and-windows-messenger-apps-what-you-need-to-know/ https://redd.it/1pdnvyn @programmingreddit

Build your own ChatGPT from scratch in C++ https://github.com/ryanssenn/torchless https://redd.it/1pdq8t7 @programmingreddit

Booting a Linux kernel in qemu and writing PID 1 in Go (to show the kernel is "just a program") https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/ https://redd.it/1pd8dh1 @programmingreddit

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k https://redd.it/1pddgdw @programmingreddit

Google's vibe coding platform deletes entire drive https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/ https://redd.it/1pdhhh3 @programmingreddit