Moon(ciechanow.ski)

2976 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 248 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining the Moon, its phases, and its orbital path around Earth.

Moon (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

245 points by simonebrunozzi 2 months ago | 38 comments

Hang on to Your Firefox(newsonaut.com)

701 points by speckx 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Newsonaut blog post titled "Hang on to your Firefox!" arguing that readers should keep using Firefox, opening with the "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" adage.

Webb Mirror (2022)(neil.fraser.name)

33 points by pavel_lishin 3 years ago | 5 comments

Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter(marijnhaverbeke.nl)

139 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 34 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages(ritsumei.ac.jp)

354 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 56 comments

Personal website of Ritsumeikan University psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka showcasing his optical and anomalous motion illusion artworks and research.

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck(epestr.com)

77 points by epestr 1 month ago | 19 comments

A blog post describing how the author wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck, inspired by a CMake tutorial remark about ray tracers written in CMake.

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it(cesarsotovalero.net)

398 points by cesarsotovalero 1 year ago | 591 comments

Blog post by Cesar Soto Valero explaining why he switched to Python for AI work and describing his tooling for building production-ready Python apps.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes(simonwillison.net)

339 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 264 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.