The Zombocom Problem(newsletter.squishy.computer)

243 points by headalgorithm 1 year ago | 70 comments

Why do we get earworms?(theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com)

30 points by lentoutcry 1 year ago | 39 comments

Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard(frontiersin.org)

200 points by geox 1 year ago | 167 comments

APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)(medium.com)

94 points by tailrecursion 3 years ago | 80 comments

HashiCorp Did It Backwards(galenmarchetti.substack.com)

78 points by galenmarchetti 3 years ago | 77 comments

The scientific “unit” we call the decibel(lcamtuf.substack.com)

558 points by Ariarule 1 year ago | 438 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack arguing that the decibel is a confusing, inconsistent scientific unit.

What does the cerebellum do?(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

406 points by scrambled 2 years ago | 184 comments

A Substack essay by Sarah Constantin on the Rough Diamonds blog explaining the functions of the cerebellum beyond balance.

"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B(zeropartydata.es)

330 points by donohoe 1 year ago | 167 comments

Substack post explaining Meta's "localhost tracking" technique that bypassed Android sandboxing to identify users' browsing, and the potential €32B regulatory fines.

Beating the compiler (2024)(mattkeeter.com)

57 points by andsoitis 25 days ago | 38 comments

Matt Keeter's blog post on writing an interpreter for the Uxn stack-based CPU in hand-written assembly to outperform compiler-generated code.

How accurately calibrated is Jev?(maximumeffort.substack.com)

40 points by dblack12705 24 days ago | 14 comments

Substack post by Dylan Black examining the calibration of Jev, TypeSafe's "System One" classifier model, contrasted with LLMs as System Two models.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

383 points by overclock351 2 years ago | 234 comments

An Ask HN thread where a computer science student asks what the state of Prolog and logic programming is in 2024 and what people use it for.