The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf](simson.net)

189 points by oliverkwebb 1 year ago | 102 comments

NAND Error-correction Code(docs.kernel.org)

81 points by signa11 2 years ago | 39 comments

Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone(tinlizzie.org)

134 points by lloydatkinson 2 years ago | 19 comments

Who is working on forward and backward compatibility for LLMs?(huyenchip.com)

93 points by nijfranck 3 years ago | 34 comments

Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019)(icann.org)

14 points by Eavolution 1 year ago | 6 comments

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS(icann.org)

844 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 331 comments

ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf](web.mit.edu)

881 points by Jtsummers 2 years ago | 390 comments

PDF of Repenning and Sterman's 2001 California Management Review paper on why organizations underinvest in process improvement and capability building.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.