alt Hacker NewsIf people are interested in this stuff, this is the house style guide that I've ended up with in mid 2026, its great-great-great grandparents were at Google, which informed Greg Badros and Mark Rabkin and Andrei Alexandrescu when they did the one at FB, which informed a bunch of trading work, which informed a bunch of GPU work.
It's opinionated but it has served me well.
https://gist.github.com/b7r6/5dde648f5dc1dea1e9039f2211f5d40...
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Slightly struck by the concept of hand-writing the config parsing but not, apparently, the documentation...
This is Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
First off, i highly suggest that you expand this into a full-blown book. This could become a successor to a combination of {Adrian & Piotr's "Software Architecture with C++" + Fedor Pikus' "The Art of Writing Efficient Programs"} for the Agentic era.
I really like that you are using Lean4 for parts of code generation, tips for Agentic coding etc. which are all needed today. I myself have been thinking on these lines i.e. using formal methods for specification and verification so that agent-generated code can be "correct-by-construction" and efficient. Your write-up is the first i have seen which tries to provide the overall picture.
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This is a bot. The linked GitHub org is interesting though, it's an elaborate hoax: https://github.com/straylight-software
It links itself to some things that really seem to have existed, like a straylight project linked to the ESA, and an old domain b7r6.net linked to another HN account. There are a lot of buzzwords there, but in aggregate it is nonsense. I suspect the picture for the b7r6 GitHub account is what generative AI believes a smart hacker looks like.
Is this the internet now?