Information Warfare(yuxi.ml)

12 points by mesaoptimizer 1 year ago | 2 comments

History of Xerox Interlisp and BBN-Lisp(interlisp.org)

63 points by mepian 2 years ago | 9 comments

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

My .config Ship of Theseus(shift1w.com)

28 points by jacobwiseberg 6 months ago | 12 comments

RIP Usenix ATC(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

189 points by joecobb 1 year ago | 37 comments

Pygfx(docs.pygfx.org)

236 points by figomore 2 years ago | 47 comments

Reforming English Spelling(blog.oup.com)

33 points by jruohonen 3 days ago | 93 comments

OUPblog column by Anatoly Liberman arguing for a minimalist, gradual reform of English spelling and describing the English Spelling Society's recent congress.

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public(honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

Coding is not solved(blog.alexewerlof.com)

458 points by firstSpeaker 28 days ago | 459 comments

Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.