Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Dolly Parton has died(theguardian.com)

1464 points by helsinkiandrew 2 months ago | 222 comments

Guardian obituary news article reporting that Dolly Parton, country singer, actor and philanthropist, has died aged 80.

Quincy Jones has died(apnews.com)

359 points by gfortaine 2 years ago | 86 comments

AP News obituary reporting that Quincy Jones, the music producer who worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, has died at 91.

Cormac McCarthy has died(nytimes.com)

803 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 330 comments

New York Times obituary reporting the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023).

James Earl Jones has died(variety.com)

581 points by birriel 2 years ago | 163 comments

Variety obituary reporting that actor James Earl Jones, known as the voice of Darth Vader, died at age 93.

Jimmy Carter has died(washingtonpost.com)

1081 points by gkolli 1 year ago | 633 comments

Washington Post obituary reporting the death of former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter.

John Warnock has died(reuters.com)

550 points by skilled 3 years ago | 123 comments

Reuters news report that Adobe co-founder John Warnock has died at age 82.