Globe Gores(blogs.loc.gov)

27 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 2 comments

Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer(blogs.loc.gov)

14 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 2 comments

Bloomsday: The library’s one-of-a-kind copy of “Ulysses”(blogs.loc.gov)

106 points by pepys 3 years ago | 43 comments

Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics(blogs.loc.gov)

336 points by aaronbrethorst 3 years ago | 170 comments

Library of Congress law blog post inviting the public to help create video games that improve knowledge of civics.

The Classic American Diner(blogs.loc.gov)

242 points by NaOH 6 months ago | 146 comments

The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text(blogs.loc.gov)

8 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 1 comments

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video](youtube.com)

1382 points by sandslash 1 year ago | 757 comments

YouTube video from Y Combinator of Andrej Karpathy's talk "Software Is Changing (Again)" about how AI and LLMs are reshaping software.

Migrating to the EU(rz01.org)

836 points by exitnode 7 months ago | 640 comments

A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.

Grok(github.com)

1034 points by pierre 2 years ago | 375 comments

GitHub repository from xAI containing the open release of the Grok language model code and checkpoint loading scripts under Apache-2.0.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 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.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)(atlasobscura.com)

502 points by whatever3 2 years ago | 174 comments

Atlas Obscura article from 2016 recounting the history of US government attempts, including by the NSA, to insert backdoors into encryption.