The Doorman's Fallacy in action(rozumem.xyz)

199 points by rozumem 4 months ago | 255 comments

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet(getunplugged.io)

21 points by keplerjst 9 months ago | 5 comments

I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens(burla-cloud.github.io)

57 points by jmp1062 5 months ago | 25 comments

The locals don't know(quarter--mile.com)

171 points by herbertl 5 months ago | 139 comments

Placemark is going open source and shutting down(macwright.com)

546 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 128 comments

Tom MacWright's blog post announcing that Placemark, his bootstrapped mapping/GIS startup, is shutting down and releasing its code as open source.

Things I tried to improve sleep(vincelwt.com)

41 points by vincelt 3 years ago | 62 comments

Migrating to the EU(rz01.org)

836 points by exitnode 7 months ago | 640 comments

A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules(arstechnica.com)

496 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 343 comments

Ars Technica article on a court ruling that suspects can refuse to give police their phone passcodes, noting conflicting case law that may reach the Supreme Court.

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.

A website to destroy all websites(henry.codes)

726 points by g0xA52A2A 9 months ago | 354 comments

An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.