Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism(worksinprogress.news)

11 points by bensouthwood 2 months ago | 10 comments

Just Bury Your Trash(worksinprogress.news)

64 points by eamag 1 month ago | 45 comments

The great shift of English prose(worksinprogress.news)

51 points by dsubburam 9 months ago | 39 comments

The secrets of the Shinkansen(worksinprogress.news)

127 points by WillDaSilva 6 months ago | 116 comments

Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water(worksinprogress.news)

88 points by venkii 1 year ago | 51 comments

The world of tomorrow(worksinprogress.co)

87 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 77 comments

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?(spencermortensen.com)

319 points by jaden 6 months ago | 93 comments

An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

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.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

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.