History of T (2001)(paulgraham.com)

64 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 19 comments

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals(utcc.utoronto.ca)

97 points by zdw 1 year ago | 58 comments

A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['(utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by ingve 2 years ago | 42 comments

Lispy vs. Pseudo-English Syntax (1984)(ml.cddddr.org)

20 points by djha-skin 3 years ago | 13 comments

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature(utcc.utoronto.ca)

61 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog(eblong.com)

117 points by exvi 1 year ago | 39 comments

Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach(troyhunt.com)

540 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 358 comments

Troy Hunt's blog post analyzing the National Public Data breach, which was claimed to expose records on 3 billion people.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)(deepsouthventures.com)

462 points by sogen 10 months ago | 135 comments

Peter Askew's 2019 essay on Deep South Ventures about running an online business selling Vidalia onions.

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place(stephendiehl.com)

325 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 407 comments

Stephen Diehl blog post criticizing the state of crypto in 2026, citing a presidential memecoin, prediction markets on military actions, and shadow dollar systems.