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1.

Do "Runge Spikes" offer a better metaphor for hallucinations by LLMs?

8 points

a year ago

2.

Ask HN: Why isn't JavaScript long-lasting?

4 points

troubledandlost

5 years ago

3.

Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development (johndcook.com)

742 points

11 years ago

4.

Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011) (johndcook.com)

667 points

6 years ago

5.

987654321 / 123456789 (johndcook.com)

637 points

7 months ago

6.

Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet (johndcook.com)

575 points

8 years ago

7.

Doing a database join with CSV files (johndcook.com)

357 points

6 years ago

8.

Four Hours of Concentration (johndcook.com)

334 points

13 years ago

9.

Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line (johndcook.com)

299 points

7 years ago

10.

Pretending OOP Never Happened (johndcook.com)

290 points

6 years ago

11.

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)

285 points

15 years ago

12.

Golden powers are nearly integers (johndcook.com)

277 points

9 years ago

13.

Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2015) (johndcook.com)

268 points

8 years ago

14.

Why does FM sound better than AM? (johndcook.com)

261 points

2 years ago

15.

Why isn't everything normally distributed? (johndcook.com)

250 points

9 years ago

16.

Test for Divisibility by 13 (johndcook.com)

239 points

6 years ago

17.

Where has all the productivity gone? (johndcook.com)

236 points

5 years ago

18.

The worst tool for the job (johndcook.com)

221 points

6 years ago

19.

Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010) (johndcook.com)

221 points

3 years ago

20.

Kalman filters and functional programming (johndcook.com)

215 points

9 years ago

21.

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) (johndcook.com)

209 points

5 months ago

22.

US Army applying new areas of math (johndcook.com)

206 points

7 years ago

23.

Planets evenly spaced on log scale (johndcook.com)

205 points

8 years ago

24.

Reminder of Complexity (johndcook.com)

199 points

6 years ago

25.

Banned math book (johndcook.com)

197 points

6 years ago

26.

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009) (johndcook.com)

191 points

4 years ago

27.

The hard part in becoming a command line wizard (johndcook.com)

187 points

7 years ago

28.

How is portable AM radio possible? (johndcook.com)

182 points

4 years ago

29.

Text case changes the size of QR codes (johndcook.com)

178 points

7 months ago

30.

No funding for uncomfortable results (johndcook.com)

177 points

7 years ago