When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'(linux.slashdot.org)

173 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 90 comments

Multiple AI Companies Ignore Robots.Txt Files(news.slashdot.org)

13 points by doener 2 years ago | 4 comments

Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects(tech.slashdot.org)

53 points by JSDevOps 2 years ago | 25 comments

30 years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' are online – including 2023's(science.slashdot.org)

107 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 10 comments

C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'(slashdot.org)

26 points by jamesy0ung 1 year ago | 25 comments

EPA Approved a Chevron Fuel Ingredient That Has a Lifetime Cancer Risk(science.slashdot.org)

43 points by Trisell 3 years ago | 16 comments

The past is not true(sive.rs)

375 points by swah 3 years ago | 319 comments

Derek Sivers essay recounting how a car crash memory he carried for years turned out to be false, arguing our memories of the past are unreliable.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Mythical Man Month(martinfowler.com)

368 points by ingve 5 months ago | 197 comments

Martin Fowler bliki post revisiting Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, noting which lessons are outdated and which remain relevant in 2026.

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025(matt.blwt.io)

380 points by yarapavan 1 year ago | 109 comments

Blog post by Matt Blewitt recommending seven database technologies to study for a week each in 2025, including Postgres, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and others.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist(axios.com)

406 points by Palmik 6 months ago | 292 comments

Reuters news article relaying an Axios report that the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite a government blacklist.

This website is for humans(localghost.dev)

531 points by charles_f 1 year ago | 283 comments

A personal blog post on localghost.dev arguing that the author's website is made for human readers, not AI search engines that scrape and repackage content.