Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager to Be America's Top Censor(techdirt.com)

14 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 5 comments

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing(techdirt.com)

476 points by cf100clunk 7 months ago | 140 comments

Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden warning that Americans will be stunned when a secret NSA interpretation of FISA Section 702 is declassified.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing(techdirt.com)

56 points by speckx 10 months ago | 11 comments

AT&T Won't Upgrade Millions Of DSL Users To Fiber Despite Billions In Subsidies(techdirt.com)

49 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 17 comments

Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence(techdirt.com)

52 points by djoldman 9 months ago | 36 comments

DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste(techdirt.com)

30 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 0 comments

Why vampires live forever(machielreyneke.com)

336 points by machielrey 8 months ago | 165 comments

Personal blog essay by Machiel Reyneke exploring why people in the longevity space are obsessed with living forever, framed through the metaphor of vampires.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)

908 points by A_D_E_P_T 2 years ago | 189 comments

Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.

Mythical Man Month(martinfowler.com)

368 points by ingve 5 months ago | 197 comments

Martin Fowler bliki post revisiting Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, noting which lessons are outdated and which remain relevant in 2026.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype(antirez.com)

1090 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 1334 comments

Blog post by antirez arguing that, despite his reservations, LLMs are going to change programming forever and people shouldn't dismiss AI out of hand.