“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing(gist.github.com)

221 points by radeeyate 11 months ago | 153 comments

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective(turkeyland.net)

92 points by ArchAndStarch 26 days ago | 68 comments

Instructor Jeff Turkstra's retrospective on an AI/LLM cheating incident in his Spring 2026 CS 240 Programming in C course and how it was handled.

The Startup CTO's Handbook(github.com)

551 points by simonebrunozzi 1 year ago | 187 comments

A GitHub-hosted Markdown book by Zach Goldberg, The Startup CTO's Handbook, covering essential skills and best practices for leading high-performing engineering teams.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates(github.com)

1252 points by StanAngeloff 6 months ago | 686 comments

GitHub issue on anthropics/claude-code reporting that Claude Code became unusable for complex engineering tasks after the February model updates.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.