Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)(lettersofnote.com)

248 points by giraffe_lady 1 year ago | 125 comments

I hope you will never see this letter (1961)(news.lettersofnote.com)

123 points by doat 3 years ago | 87 comments

I Miss Lorina Bulwer: A hand-stitched letter of note(news.lettersofnote.com)

29 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 6 comments

Writes and Write-Nots(paulgraham.com)

138 points by baxtr 2 years ago | 125 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

12 points by aragonite 3 months ago | 3 comments

Microsoft Is Dead[2007](paulgraham.com)

62 points by rolph 2 years ago | 98 comments

What Problems to Solve (1966)(genius.cat-v.org)

456 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 54 comments

A 1966 letter from Richard Feynman to former student Koichi Mano advising him that worthwhile problems are ones you can actually solve, hosted on cat-v.org.

After my dad died, we found the love letters(jenn.site)

854 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 389 comments

A personal blog essay on Jenneral HQ about discovering love letters among the author's late father's belongings and reflecting on her parents' arranged marriage.

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

1521 points by jdcampolargo 2 months ago | 90 comments

Stephen Wolfram's memorial blog post for his wife Elise Cawley (1961–2026), reflecting on their 36 years together.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

I write type-safe generic data structures in C(danielchasehooper.com)

395 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 162 comments

Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining a technique for writing type-safe generic data structures in C using unions to carry type information.

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)

160 points by benbreen 1 month ago | 38 comments

A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.