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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)(bearcave.com)
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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)
334 points by danielvaughn | 178 comments
Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.
Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)
31 points by lr0 | 37 comments
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"(cs.utexas.edu)
390 points by nimbleplum40 | 236 comments
Transcription of Edsger Dijkstra's manuscript EWD 667 arguing that programming in natural language is foolish and that formal symbolism is essential.
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476 points by askvictor | 213 comments
Full text of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war, set on August 4, 2026.
The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
The future is not self-hosted(drewlyton.com)
417 points by drew_lytle | 367 comments
Blog post by Drew Lyton arguing that self-hosting is not the future of personal computing and data ownership.
Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)
5 points by samstress | 6 comments
A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.
So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)
369 points by UglyToad | 199 comments
Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.
VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)
385 points by radeeyate | 72 comments
GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.