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Stack Overflow lost 99% of its questions — and the reason is more uncomfortable than 'AI killed it'

The number that made me stop scrolling

There’s a chart that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week, and I’ve now looked at it maybe forty times, and it still does something unpleasant to my stomach every single time.

The number at the top of the story is this: Stack …

The LuaJIT bug that silently poisoned hot loops — and the Lua community that won't move forward

The bug

Here’s a sentence that should terrify anyone who writes performance-sensitive code: a function that never executes can slow down a completely unrelated hot loop by 20x.

That’s not a hypothetical. That’s what was documented this week in an investigation on r/programming — …

The Open Source Endowment — a $750K bet that FOSS doesn't need VC money

The problem we’ve been pretending doesn’t exist

Open source has a funding problem. Not a small one. A structural one.

The numbers are absurd. cURL — probably the most deployed HTTP client in human history, running on billions of devices — was maintained by one person, Daniel Stenberg, …