People Love to Work Hard(anildash.com)

28 points by zdw 6 months ago | 19 comments

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning(anildash.com)

53 points by zdw 10 months ago | 37 comments

We are going to kill "unalive"(anildash.com)

66 points by Tomte 20 days ago | 40 comments

Anil Dash blog post arguing against the euphemism "unalive" and the platform-driven algospeak that self-censors language on social media.

VC isn't VC anymore(anildash.com)

208 points by cdrnsf 1 month ago | 176 comments

The Majority AI View(anildash.com)

38 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 19 comments

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web(anildash.com)

741 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 301 comments

Anil Dash blog post arguing that OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser undermines the open web, calling it an anti-web browser.

UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)

777 points by vishnuharidas 1 year ago | 305 comments

A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.

The Emacsification of Software(sockpuppet.org)

394 points by rdslw 5 months ago | 247 comments

A blog post arguing developers want a good Markdown viewer, discussing how LLM agents have revived TUI tooling and an Emacs-like trend in software.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

A Skill.md for Commenting on Hacker News(blog.coredump.cx)

10 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 0 comments

A satirical blog post by lcamtuf framing Hacker News commenting habits as an AI agent SKILL.md, using dice rolls to pick stereotypical comment patterns.

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)

388 points by r4um 1 year ago | 48 comments

A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News(refactoringenglish.com)

396 points by sharjeelsayed 1 year ago | 113 comments

An interactive leaderboard from Refactoring English ranking personal blog domains by their total Hacker News score, filterable by date range.