Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery (Hofstadter, 2025)(yalebooks.yale.edu)

7 points by lorenzuru 1 year ago | 2 comments

Adversarial Collaboration Project(web.sas.upenn.edu)

94 points by sebg 3 years ago | 17 comments

Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf](gwern.net)

73 points by ustad 2 years ago | 37 comments

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica(psu.edu)

40 points by geox 1 year ago | 12 comments

The complex William Jennings Bryan (2007)(ideonexus.com)

28 points by andrewla 2 years ago | 12 comments

Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)(psu.edu)

26 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 7 comments

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages(jimmyhmiller.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 24 comments

Jimmy Miller essay arguing programmers should be able to customize and change their programming languages rather than treat them as fixed artifacts.

I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse(ryansouthgate.com)

510 points by ry8806 1 year ago | 294 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author removed the Disqus comment system from his blog, citing its injected ads.

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX(blog.jreyesr.com)

515 points by judell 2 years ago | 203 comments

A long blog post reviewing Typst, a typesetting language and tool similar to LaTeX, covering styling, scripting, plugins, and comparisons to LaTeX, Markdown, and Word.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.