America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen(danieltan.weblog.lol)

78 points by danieltanfh95 5 months ago | 38 comments

Cold-blooded software (2023)(dubroy.com)

63 points by dgroshev 9 months ago | 12 comments

Moon (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

245 points by simonebrunozzi 2 months ago | 38 comments

Moon(ciechanow.ski)

2976 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 248 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining the Moon, its phases, and its orbital path around Earth.

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

199 points by rozumem 4 months ago | 255 comments

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete(autodidacts.io)

351 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 117 comments

An essay on The Autodidacts blog arguing that troubleshooting, systematically finding and fixing causes of unwanted system behaviour, is a domain-agnostic skill.

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.

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far(burkeholland.github.io)

797 points by tbassetto 9 months ago | 1203 comments

Burke Holland's blog post arguing that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 is a step change in AI coding agent experience.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes(futurism.com)

542 points by danso 7 months ago | 334 comments

Futurism article reporting that Ars Technica parted ways with reporter Benj Edwards after a controversy over AI-fabricated quotes.