Chonky Menu Re-Creation(nathanmanousos.com)

186 points by ccorcos 3 years ago | 70 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action(rozumem.xyz)

199 points by rozumem 4 months ago | 255 comments

The Adventures of Writing a CHIP8 Emulator(benjcal.space)

44 points by lrsjng 3 years ago | 14 comments

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time(mll.sh)

338 points by denysvitali 4 months ago | 82 comments

A blog post on finding and exploiting common misconfigurations in Microsoft IIS web servers, starting from the default IIS splash page.

Postgres as queue(leontrolski.github.io)

178 points by leontrolski 2 years ago | 93 comments

Please just try HTMX(pleasejusttryhtmx.com)

494 points by iNic 10 months ago | 402 comments

An opinionated, profanity-laced essay urging web developers to try HTMX instead of choosing between raw JavaScript and heavy frameworks like React.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

700 points by razin 4 months ago | 118 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.