[Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755841) [Google Testing Blog: Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale](https://testing.googleblog.com/2023/04/sensenmann-code-deletion-at-scale.html) - 3: Decay - important wisdom re: old code/features ## 1 optimizing [Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416989) [Is Turbopack really 10x Faster than Vite? · yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr · Discussion #8 · GitHub](https://github.com/yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr/discussions/8) [Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don't need updates | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987028) [Outdated vs. Complete](https://vivqu.com/blog/2022/09/25/outdated-apps/) [Designing Low Upkeep Software | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660964) [Designing Low Upkeep Software](https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-upkeep-software) [Simple Systems Have Less Downtime | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22471355) [Simple Systems Have Less Downtime | Greg Kogan](https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/?r=0) [Concise Code Isn't Always Clean Code - and Here's Why](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/concise-code-isnt-always-clean-code) [Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495739) [Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367) [Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation - Dan Slimmon](https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/) pattern for scripts that do nothing but still help on the road to automation [A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877034) [How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99% | by Pinterest Engineering | Pinterest Engineering Blog | Medium](https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-a-one-line-change-decreased-our-build-times-by-99-b98453265370) [The compiler will optimize that away | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010965) [The compiler will optimize that away | RoyalSloth](https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-compiler-will-optimize-that-away/) [How to Use OpenTelemetry to Understand Software Performance](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-opentelemetry) [GitHub - magsther/awesome-opentelemetry: A curated list of OpenTelemetry resources](https://github.com/magsther/awesome-opentelemetry) [OpenTelemetry in 2023 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295097) [OpenTelemetry in 2023 - by Kevin Lin - Bit by Bit](https://bit.kevinslin.com/p/opentelemetry-in-2023) [Hi](https://kevinslin.com/) ## 2 feature bloat [When users never use the features they asked for | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699637) [When users never use the features they asked for - Austin Z. Henley](https://web.archive.org/web/20221220211121/https://austinhenley.com/blog/featurestheywanted.html) [I hate almost all software (2011) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28181632) [I hate almost all software](https://tinyclouds.org/rant) [Ryan Dahl](http://tinyclouds.org/) [Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294397) [Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with](https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/02/28/Weird-architectures-werent-supported-to-begin-with) [william woodruff](https://yossarian.net/) [The Tyranny of the Marginal User | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507) [The Tyranny of the Marginal User - by Ivan Vendrov](https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user) [Laura Klein](https://www.usersknow.com/blog/2009/11/6-reasons-users-hate-your-new-feature.html) (2009) 6 Reasons Users Hate Your New Feature [Luu Duong](http://www.luuduong.com/archive/2009/03/04/applying-the-quot8020-rulequot-with-the-standish-groups-software-usage.aspx) (2009) Applying the "80-20 Rule" with The Standish Group’s Statistics on Software Usage 80% of users only use 20% of features. [Zawinski's Law - Principles Wiki](http://principles-wiki.net/non-principles:zawinski_s_law) ## 3 decay [Imaginary problems are the root of bad software | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36380711) [Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software](https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software) [Activision's faulty anti-cheat software | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859751) [Mike Swanson's Blog • Activision's Faulty Anti-Cheat Software](https://blog.mikeswanson.com/post/702753924034297856/activisions-faulty-anti-cheat-software) [Apps Getting Worse | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28109842) [ongoing by Tim Bray · Apps Getting Worse](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse) [I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277594) [Kate McNamara on X: "I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? https://t.co/dSfHZRTGAB" / X](https://twitter.com/kaydo/status/1259747848502960130) [Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32883596) [Reddit's photo albums broke due to Integer overflow of Signed Int32 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976355) [Here at Reddit we believe everything is better in moderation. Therefore, we've decided to only allow ~2.2B posts on the site. : shittychangelog](https://old.reddit.com/r/shittychangelog/comments/zl5gaz/here_at_reddit_we_believe_everything_is_better_in/) [You Might Also Like | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509941) [You Might Also Like - Basic Apple Guy](https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/you-might-also-like) [The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33511016) [Steve Krenzel on Twitter: "With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵" / Twitter](https://web.archive.org/web/20230214140242/https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817) [Software horror show: SAP Concur | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857694) [The Universe of Discourse: 2022/12/04 archive](https://blog.plover.com/2022/12/04/#crap-warning-signs-2) [FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26601533) [nixCraft 🐧 on X: "FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage. Be careful. You don't need FileZilla on Linux or Unix-like systems at all. On windows, try using WinSCP https://t.co/0SUtkd9Mq4 if you need that kind of stuff. WSL will also save you from such things." / X](https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1375389973742948355) [I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442529) [How I Shaved 187MB Off United Airline's 439mb iOS App | Trevor Elkins Blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20231205060402/https://www.telkins.dev/blog/how-i-shaved-187mb-off-uniteds-airlines-439MB-ios-app) [Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498979) [Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working | Mullvad VPN](https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/9/13/bug-in-macos-14-sonoma-prevents-our-app-from-working) ## 4 depreciation [Python 2 removed from Debian | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227760) [#1027108 - RM: python2.7 -- RoQA; Obsolete - Debian Bug report logs](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027108) [Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25338983) [Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32445203) [Updates of the Fusion 360 Simulation Workspace from September 6 2022](https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Updates-to-the-Fusion-360-Simulation-Extension.html) [Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35130764) [Official Google Blog: A second spring of cleaning](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html) [Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622788) [Developers on X: "Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵" / X](https://twitter.com/XDevelopers/status/1621026986784337922) [His software sang the words of God, then it went silent | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401895) [His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.](https://www.inverse.com/input/features/tropetrainer-thomas-buchler-torah-software) ## software maintenance stories [Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35065785) [Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app](https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html)