Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)(cs.dartmouth.edu)

57 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Functional programming languages should be better at mutation than they are(cohost.org)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 62 comments

Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are(cohost.org)

109 points by injuly 2 years ago | 153 comments

Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words(cohost.org)

448 points by Fraterkes 3 years ago | 195 comments

A Cohost post by user mcc (andi) about learning Toki Pona, a minimalist constructed language with roughly 120 words.

High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time(cohost.org)

245 points by stefanos82 2 years ago | 72 comments

A one-person oral history of Geocities HTML Chat (2022)(cohost.org)

104 points by kickofline 3 years ago | 20 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?(ikea.com)

436 points by NaOH 2 months ago | 308 comments

IKEA Sweden customer service FAQ explaining how the company names its products and the rules behind the naming system.

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2(jan.wildeboer.net)

371 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 225 comments

Blog post by Jan Wildeboer, second in a series, arguing the web is broken by botnets, likely covering apps embedding SDKs that turn user devices into scraping proxies.

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021(ikeamuseum.com)

477 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 128 comments

IKEA Museum page offering an archive of IKEA catalogues from 1951 to 2021, browsable by decade.

IKEA – 3D Guide(sael.net)

170 points by punnerud 6 days ago | 68 comments

An interactive 3D web guide that animates step-by-step assembly of IKEA furniture like the BILLY bookcase and LACK table alongside the manual pages.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Thinking will become a hobby(spinellis.gr)

277 points by pranitha_m 14 days ago | 396 comments

Diomidis Spinellis blog post arguing that AI will take over most cognitive work, leaving human thinking as more of a hobby.