Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.

Let me pay for Firefox(discourse.mozilla.org)

673 points by csmantle 1 year ago | 513 comments

A Mozilla Discourse community forum post by a longtime supporter arguing that Mozilla should let users pay for Firefox to fund its development.

Python 3.13 Gets a JIT(tonybaloney.github.io)

1023 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 504 comments

Blog post by Anthony Shaw explaining the experimental copy-and-patch JIT compiler added to CPython for Python 3.13.

datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

364 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 409 comments

Miguel Grinberg's blog post explaining that Python 3.12 deprecates datetime.utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp(), and discussing alternatives.