Steffen's Polyhedron(gregegan.net)

56 points by pavel_lishin 1 month ago | 5 comments

Foundations (1997-2000)(gregegan.net)

189 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 52 comments

Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)

44 points by carapace 3 years ago | 1 comments

George Orwell Complete Works(george-orwell.org)

152 points by muragekibicho 3 years ago | 38 comments

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature(utcc.utoronto.ca)

61 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)(emacswiki.org)

210 points by signa11 2 years ago | 80 comments

Structured Procrastination (1995)(structuredprocrastination.com)

425 points by ipnon 1 year ago | 150 comments

John Perry's classic 1995 essay describing structured procrastination, a strategy for getting work done by putting off other, more important tasks.

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)(philzimmermann.com)

174 points by GaryBluto 12 days ago | 65 comments

Phil Zimmermann's essay from the original 1991 PGP User's Guide, updated in 1999, explaining why he created PGP to protect the privacy of personal communications.

Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue(github.com)

350 points by jeeybee 2 years ago | 110 comments

GitHub repository for PgQueuer, a Python library that uses PostgreSQL and LISTEN/NOTIFY to implement an efficient job queue.

From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)

361 points by cookiengineer 1 year ago | 132 comments

Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.

Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

444 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 155 comments

An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.