My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it(robotsinplainenglish.com)

243 points by ripe 3 years ago | 52 comments

Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture(robotsinplainenglish.com)

90 points by ripe 9 months ago | 56 comments

Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ(blog.cr.yp.to)

15 points by zdw 1 month ago | 6 comments

There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes(blog.safia.rocks)

26 points by ankitg12 4 months ago | 9 comments

Money bubble(tbray.org)

143 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 158 comments

A Week of Bug Reporting(tratt.net)

6 points by luu 1 month ago | 2 comments

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)

446 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 199 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

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.

Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code(zbruceli.org)

5 points by ptidhomme 19 days ago | 0 comments

A long-form blog essay profiling Fabrice Bellard, the reclusive programmer behind widely used software like FFmpeg and QEMU.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

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.