I've acquired a new superpower(danielwirtz.com)

1641 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 530 comments

Personal blog post by Daniel Wirtz about learning to quickly spot differences between two similar images, inspired by a German TV show video of a 9-year-old girl.

Greg (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)

247 points by admp 2 years ago | 112 comments

Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article(danielwirtz.com)

110 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 34 comments

Emacs appearances in pop culture(ianyepan.github.io)

361 points by ggcr 4 months ago | 103 comments

A blog post cataloging appearances of the Emacs text editor in films, TV and other pop culture, starting with The Social Network.

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

84 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 54 comments

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.