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Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: /r/programming The author expresses strong criticism of GitHub's recent decision to support YAML anchors in GitHub Actions. They argue that this feature is unnecessary, complicates the data model, and makes it harder for both humans and machines to understand and analyze CI/CD workflows. The author believes that YAML anchors are redundant, as existing mechanisms already reduce duplication effectively. Furthermore, they highlight that GitHub’s implementation of YAML anchors is incomplete and lacks the support for merge keys, which makes anchors less useful. The author concludes that
Netflix's Livestreaming Disaster: The Engineering Challenge of Streaming at Scale Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: /r/programming On November 15, 2024, Netflix hosted a highly anticipated live streaming event featuring a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This marked Netflix's major foray into live streaming, an endeavor their engineering team had been preparing for three years. Initially, around 65 million viewers logged on, setting a record for the largest single sports stream. However, many users experienced buffering issues and "black screens," leading to widespread frustration over the inability to view
Sneaky Code Bites Back Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: /r/programming The author reflects on their experience with coding, specifically while working on Pongo, a project that allows using SQL databases like PostgreSQL with a MongoDB-like API. Although the code for adding SQLite support worked, the author struggled to explain the underlying implementation, realizing it was overly complex. Pongo aims to leverage the familiar MongoDB API for users who require the reliability of PostgreSQL, specifically for benefits like ACID transactions and existing infrastructure. User interest has spurred requests for multi-database support,
Depth of Field with OpenGL Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: /r/programming Of course! Please provide the content you'd like me to summarize.
Mill as an Alternative Android Build Tool Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf] Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to fetch content - HTTP Error - Net::ReadTimeout with #<TCPSocket:(closed)>
South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024) Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me Published: 2025-09-22 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
Joe O'Brien 1976 - 2025 Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/ruby Failed to fetch content - HTTP Error - Failed to open TCP connection to :80 (Connection refused - connect(2) for nil port 80)
Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
How a String Library Beat OpenCV at Image Processing by 4x Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
Seven stages teams go through with their software tech stack Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: Hacker News Failed to generate summary
Type Stubs and Typeshed in Python: A Developer’s Guide Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: /r/programming Failed to generate summary
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption Published: 2025-09-21 \| Origin: Hacker News arXivLabs is a platform that enables collaborators to create and share new features on the arXiv website. It emphasizes values such as openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy, working exclusively with partners who share these principles. Users with project ideas that could benefit arXiv's community are encouraged to engage with arXivLabs. Additionally, users can receive operational status updates via email or Slack.

Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please

Published: 2025-09-22 | Origin: /r/programming

The author expresses strong criticism of GitHub's recent decision to support YAML anchors in GitHub Actions. They argue that this feature is unnecessary, complicates the data model, and makes it harder for both humans and machines to understand and analyze CI/CD workflows. The author believes that YAML anchors are redundant, as existing mechanisms already reduce duplication effectively. Furthermore, they highlight that GitHub’s implementation of YAML anchors is incomplete and lacks the support for merge keys, which makes anchors less useful. The author concludes that

Netflix's Livestreaming Disaster: The Engineering Challenge of Streaming at Scale

Published: 2025-09-22 | Origin: /r/programming

On November 15, 2024, Netflix hosted a highly anticipated live streaming event featuring a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This marked Netflix's major foray into live streaming, an endeavor their engineering team had been preparing for three years. Initially, around 65 million viewers logged on, setting a record for the largest single sports stream. However, many users experienced buffering issues and "black screens," leading to widespread frustration over the inability to view

Sneaky Code Bites Back

Published: 2025-09-22 | Origin: /r/programming

The author reflects on their experience with coding, specifically while working on Pongo, a project that allows using SQL databases like PostgreSQL with a MongoDB-like API. Although the code for adding SQLite support worked, the author struggled to explain the underlying implementation, realizing it was overly complex. Pongo aims to leverage the familiar MongoDB API for users who require the reliability of PostgreSQL, specifically for benefits like ACID transactions and existing infrastructure. User interest has spurred requests for multi-database support,

Depth of Field with OpenGL

Published: 2025-09-22 | Origin: /r/programming

Of course! Please provide the content you'd like me to summarize.

Mill as an Alternative Android Build Tool

Published: 2025-09-22 | Origin: /r/programming

Failed to generate summary

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]