Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf](home.csulb.edu)

91 points by measurablefunc 1 year ago | 35 comments

William James at CERN (1995)(bactra.org)

25 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 4 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf](courses.csail.mit.edu)

366 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 62 comments

PDF of the 2018 revision of the MIT textbook Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, and Albert R. Meyer.

Amoeba: A distributed operating system for the 1990s (1990) [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)

54 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 20 comments

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf](cr.yp.to)

21 points by akkartik 11 days ago | 0 comments

Daniel J. Bernstein's paper describing cryptoint, a C/C++ library of constant-time integer functions designed to resist compiler optimizations that introduce timing leaks.

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst(fransskarman.com)

477 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 275 comments

A blog post by Frans Skarman about writing his PhD thesis in Typst instead of LaTeX, covering what worked well and what didn't.

Notes on Managing ADHD(borretti.me)

409 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 211 comments

A personal essay by Fernando Borretti on managing ADHD, divided into high-level strategies and micro-level tactics for tricking yourself into productivity.

Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf](signal.org)

630 points by g0xA52A2A 4 months ago | 270 comments

Signal's PDF statement opposing a UK government demand that all content on devices be scanned for nudity using age verification and content scanning.

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)(frontiersin.org)

351 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 227 comments

A Frontiers in Psychiatry perspective article arguing ADHD can be viewed as a circadian rhythm disorder and discussing implications for chronotherapy.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.