Mean People Fail (2014)(paulgraham.com)

24 points by insuranceguru 8 months ago | 31 comments

Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization(mylessnider.com)

13 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 5 comments

Is stuff online worth saving?(rubenerd.com)

113 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 124 comments

Decentralizing Schemes(tbray.org)

24 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 5 comments

A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)(reasonableapproximation.net)

134 points by nequo 2 years ago | 38 comments

AI Angst(tbray.org)

122 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 113 comments

Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

792 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 265 comments

Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.

It's okay to make something nobody wants(zhangluyao.com)

411 points by levi0214 3 years ago | 171 comments

A personal blog essay by 张路遥 arguing it's fine to build products for your own excitement rather than for users, opening with a Rick Rubin quote.

I don't like passkeys(hawksley.dev)

676 points by ethanhawksley 1 month ago | 665 comments

A personal blog post by Ethan Hawksley explaining why he dislikes passkeys and the tech industry's push to make users adopt them.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

The cost of getting a job today(weli.dev)

23 points by weli 11 days ago | 23 comments

A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.