Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi(medium.com)

140 points by hcfman 2 years ago | 36 comments

Was Rust Worth It?(jsoverson.medium.com)

375 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 542 comments

A Medium blog post by Jarrod Overson reflecting on whether adopting Rust for his projects was worth it after several years of use.

How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF(medium.com)

113 points by happybits 2 years ago | 37 comments

Complexity fills the space it's given(medium.com)

21 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 8 comments

Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker(lab.scub.net)

64 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 11 comments

What I Know About Community Building (2020)(medium.com)

49 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 10 comments

The Chalk and the Airplane(unintendedconsequenc.es)

23 points by paulorlando 4 days ago | 9 comments

Blog essay on mathematicians' emotional reactions to AI-generated proofs, framing it as the end of math's romantic era and comparing it to past industrial disruptions.

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.

Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)

908 points by A_D_E_P_T 2 years ago | 189 comments

Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools(theorthagonist.substack.com)

489 points by ZeroTalent 1 year ago | 228 comments

A Substack essay from The Orthagonist arguing that popular business books are cheap entertainment built on simplified stories rather than useful strategic tools.

On social reality in China(lesswrong.com)

147 points by thicTurtlLverXX 24 days ago | 148 comments

A LessWrong linkpost essay by alkjash sharing intuitions and anecdotes about social reality in China, in the context of spreading AI safety and rationalist ideas there.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.