The case for building operator interfaces before AI agents(henrypray.com)

4 points by henrypray 1 year ago | 4 comments

ChatGPT: Fear Litany(web.archive.org)

156 points by Cloudef 3 years ago | 140 comments

Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board(delopsu.com)

96 points by delopsu 1 year ago | 33 comments

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics(alpha.lisagui.com)

492 points by ayaros 1 year ago | 137 comments

LisaGUI, a browser-based web OS written in vanilla JavaScript that recreates the Apple Lisa Office System's 1-bit UI on a single canvas element.

Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license(shakti.com)

265 points by chrispsn 2 years ago | 199 comments

Happy 30th FreeBSD: Why FreeBSD open source project has endured(aster.cloud)

135 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 62 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Introduction to Modern Statistics(openintro-ims2.netlify.app)

665 points by noelwelsh 3 years ago | 116 comments

Website for the free online textbook Introduction to Modern Statistics, Second Edition, by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin from the OpenIntro project.

The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)

343 points by zzxcvb 3 years ago | 153 comments

Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2(jan.wildeboer.net)

371 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 225 comments

Blog post by Jan Wildeboer, second in a series, arguing the web is broken by botnets, likely covering apps embedding SDKs that turn user devices into scraping proxies.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries(kodingkitty.com)

434 points by KodingKitty 3 years ago | 232 comments

A Koding Kitty blog post explaining how the author built their website without frameworks or heavy libraries, prompted by an IndieHackers question.