Knuth reward check(thomas-huehn.com)

217 points by Curiositry 16 days ago | 76 comments

Personal blog post recounting finding an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and receiving his famous reward check twenty years ago.

Pre-2022 Books(notes.lorenzogravina.com)

165 points by trms 4 months ago | 105 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)(gwern.net)

115 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 35 comments

I Reverse Engineered Vercel's v0.dev Prompt and Code Optimization Logic(step-saga-examples.pages.dev)

17 points by swyx 2 years ago | 4 comments

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)(softwaredoug.com)

111 points by softwaredoug 1 year ago | 18 comments

The worst job interview I ever had(oliverio.dev)

587 points by oliverio 5 months ago | 470 comments

A personal blog post by a startup engineer recounting his worst job interview, a culture-fit interview that felt like an unsolicited psych evaluation.