Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)

53 points by tmseidman 1 year ago | 10 comments

Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)

237 points by signa11 2 years ago | 41 comments

Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)(plausiblydeniable.com)

34 points by edent 2 years ago | 13 comments

Dynamic Languages Strike Back (2008)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

39 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 22 comments

My falling-out with the rationalist community(lcamtuf.substack.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 43 comments

Mean People Fail (2014)(paulgraham.com)

24 points by insuranceguru 8 months ago | 31 comments

Making any integer with four 2s(eli.thegreenplace.net)

338 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 144 comments

Eli Bendersky's blog post on the puzzle of generating any natural number using exactly four 2s and arbitrary mathematical operations.

Eight Bytes Are a Number(blog.sebastiansastre.co)

6 points by sebastianconcpt 25 days ago | 2 comments

Blog post by Sebastian Sastre arguing that reading numbers or types from bytes shouldn't require allocating a separate buffer, since eight bytes already are a number.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

Programming with Less Than Nothing(joshmoody.org)

407 points by signa11 1 year ago | 138 comments

A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.

Why is everything so scalable?(stavros.io)

360 points by kunley 1 year ago | 330 comments

Blog post by Stavros arguing that most companies over-engineer their systems with FAANG-style scalable architectures like microservices and cloud datastores they don't need.