Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)

44 points by carapace 3 years ago | 1 comments

This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002)(larry.denenberg.com)

122 points by signa11 2 years ago | 25 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)(martin.kleppmann.com)

167 points by tosh 9 months ago | 64 comments

Konrad Zuse's Homepage(web.archive.org)

67 points by nanna 2 years ago | 21 comments

Is Mars Habitable? (1907)(people.wku.edu)

54 points by kimmk 2 years ago | 15 comments

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web (2002)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)

15 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 5 comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program(bitsaboutmoney.com)

1220 points by disgruntledphd2 2 years ago | 705 comments

A Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explaining how credit card rewards programs work and are funded.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.