WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History(medium.com)

18 points by dotcoma 4 months ago | 3 comments

Anatomy of a Browser(medium.com)

7 points by syumei 1 month ago | 0 comments

Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory(medium.com)

28 points by Mitchem 1 month ago | 23 comments

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later(medium.com)

41 points by jhack 4 months ago | 31 comments

Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning(medium.com)

110 points by ruxudev 4 months ago | 44 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST(medium.com)

82 points by indyjo 2 months ago | 12 comments

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks(theverge.com)

534 points by leotravis10 1 year ago | 396 comments

A Verge feature on how Wikipedia has endured attacks and remained resilient through its neutrality policies and history, with Jimmy Wales.

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act(bbc.com)

1024 points by phlummox 1 year ago | 786 comments

BBC News article reporting that Wikipedia lost its legal challenge against verification rules under the UK's Online Safety Act.

How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet(cambridge.org)

455 points by bawolff 3 years ago | 485 comments

Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links(arstechnica.com)

565 points by nobody9999 8 months ago | 341 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and is removing about 695,000 archive links after DDoS and snapshot-tampering allegations.

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online(ellsberg.substack.com)

598 points by macawfish 1 year ago | 793 comments

A Substack essay by Michael Ellsberg arguing a Supreme Court ruling effectively ends free speech protections for sexual writing online, and asking whether his literary site is now illegal.

Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

162 points by jruohonen 5 days ago | 155 comments

LSE Impact Blog post by Helen Choi arguing that academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems such as Wikipedia.