Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf](fleuret.org)

420 points by dataminer 3 years ago | 29 comments

A PDF of François Fleuret's The Little Book of Deep Learning, a short introductory textbook on deep learning.

Portable EPUBs(willcrichton.net)

551 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 213 comments

Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)

9 points by gmays 25 days ago | 0 comments

A PDF of the International Energy Agency's 2026 special report on electrification of the global energy system.

Understanding Deep Learning(udlbook.github.io)

347 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 79 comments

Homepage for Simon J.D. Prince's book Understanding Deep Learning (MIT Press, 2023), offering a free draft PDF of chapters 1-21 under a CC license.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.