First screen, captured .
393 points by trashtensor | 206 comments
A Space Exploration Stack Exchange question asking how much larger Earth could be before chemical rockets could no longer reach orbit.
581 points by jasonhansel | 145 comments
A Physics Stack Exchange question asking why holding a remote car key fob against your head or body extends its range.
500 points by frabert | 120 comments
An Astronomy Stack Exchange question asking whether very distant galaxies, such as those seen by JWST, should appear magnified due to the expansion of space.
429 points by imartin2k | 131 comments
Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.
268 points by stmonty | 94 comments
Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.
323 points by dfcowell | 185 comments
A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.
244 points by dom96 | 179 comments
Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.