Children of the Geissler Tube (2023)(hopefulmons.com)

36 points by paulkrush 1 year ago | 8 comments

The Color of the Future: A history of blue(hopefulmons.com)

119 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 31 comments

Guilty Displeasures(hopefulmons.com)

94 points by aregue 7 months ago | 95 comments

RAM: the forgotten history (2024)(blog.coredump.cx)

101 points by Luc 1 month ago | 5 comments

A Substack essay by lcamtuf arguing that modern computers owe more to the invention of electronically controlled working memory than to Charles Babbage.

Memory: the forgotten history(lcamtuf.substack.com)

78 points by zdw 2 years ago | 4 comments

I know why the mathematicians weep(derekthompson.org)

342 points by RickJWagner 11 days ago | 561 comments

Derek Thompson essay on his Substack about technological grief, using mathematicians' reactions to AI advances as a lens.