Slow(michaelnotebook.com)
911 points by calvinfo | 215 comments
Michael Nielsen's essay and curated list of projects humans have pursued over exceptionally long periods, asking how to build institutions for slow problems.
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6 weeks of Claude Code(blog.puzzmo.com)
543 points by mike1o1 | 543 comments
Puzzmo blog post by Orta Therox reflecting on six weeks of using Claude Code and how it changed his approach to writing and maintaining code.
How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?(movies.stackexchange.com)
503 points by azeemba | 67 comments
A Movies & TV Stack Exchange question asking how the 1936 Universal Pictures opening logo animation was created.
The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)
474 points by rbanffy | 717 comments
Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.
MacBook Pro Insomnia(manuel.bernhardt.io)
473 points by speckx | 216 comments
A short blog post about diagnosing overnight battery drain on an M1 Max MacBook Pro using pmset logs and the Sleep Aid app.
Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided(digitalcourage.social)
448 points by nickslaughter02 | 317 comments
A Mastodon post by Patrick Breyer reporting that many EU countries that opposed the ChatControl proposal in 2024 are now undecided.
PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor(pixieditor.net)
373 points by ksymph | 42 comments
Blog post announcing the release of PixiEditor 2.0, a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor.
Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting(lazyadmin.nl)
363 points by speckx | 285 comments
A LazyAdmin article covering Ubiquiti's Early Access release of UniFi OS Server, with requirements and download links for self-hosting the UniFi network stack.
Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea(krea.ai)
344 points by vmatsiiako | 98 comments
Krea blog post announcing the open-weights release of FLUX.1 Krea [dev], a guidance-distilled image model built with Black Forest Labs and compatible with FLUX.1-dev.
I tried Servo(spacebar.news)
327 points by robtherobber | 219 comments
A hands-on article from The Spacebar about trying Servo, the independent Rust-based web browser engine originally developed at Mozilla.
AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser(elroy.bot)
325 points by jjfoooo4 | 183 comments
Blog post on the Elroy site arguing AI reshapes learning curves by helping beginners reach competence faster, while mastery and large-codebase work remain hard.
QUIC for the kernel(lwn.net)
309 points by Bogdanp | 209 comments
Introduction to Computer Music(cmtext.com)
259 points by hecanjog | 70 comments
So you're a manager now(scottkosman.com)
188 points by mooreds | 139 comments
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What is gVisor?(blog.yelinaung.com)
89 points by yla92 | 49 comments
Orion Browser(kagi.com)
79 points by gtirloni | 57 comments
Stargate Norway(openai.com)
78 points by amrrs | 67 comments
Caches: LRU vs. Random(danluu.com)
77 points by gslin | 15 comments
Dark patterns(nsw.gov.au)
73 points by ColinWright | 23 comments
What Can a Cell Remember?(quantamagazine.org)
69 points by chapulin | 10 comments
Friction and Not Being Touched(tante.cc)
48 points by colinprince | 9 comments
Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang
46 points by taure | 15 comments
How Scientific Empires End(theatlantic.com)
31 points by mooreds | 8 comments
