The Matching Problem in Dating(eriktorenberg.substack.com)

16 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 4 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto(pmarca.substack.com)

4 points by jger15 3 years ago | 0 comments

Writing Lesson, Comment on Friedman. Don't piss people off if you don't have to(grumpy-economist.com)

5 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 0 comments

OpenAI Shoves a Data Journalist and Violates Federal Law(aarongreenspan.substack.com)

67 points by thinkcomp 2 years ago | 24 comments

Proving a human wrote something(gjtorikian.online)

42 points by gjtorikian 3 months ago | 51 comments

Tyranny of Optionality(hvpandya.com)

27 points by aray07 1 month ago | 13 comments

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)

7 points by gum_wobble 1 day ago | 6 comments

Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism(matduggan.com)

362 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 320 comments

A blog post by Mat Duggan arguing that cyberlibertarian ideology in the tech world is hypocritical, opening with reflections on life before the Internet.