A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image(theguardian.com)

178 points by RapperWhoMadeIt 1 year ago | 122 comments

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins(theguardian.com)

71 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 21 comments

Frederick Forsyth has died(theguardian.com)

46 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 15 comments

Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist(theguardian.com)

28 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 5 comments

Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed more than 20 years later(theguardian.com)

22 points by c420 1 year ago | 17 comments

Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life(theguardian.com)

66 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 31 comments

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

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

5 points by ptidhomme 18 days ago | 0 comments

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

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

Writing code by hand is over, forever(eliocapella.com)

11 points by aray07 22 days ago | 8 comments

A personal blog post by a developer of 18 years explaining how Claude Code with Opus 4.5 led him to stop writing code by hand entirely.

I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea(notnottalmud.substack.com)

1004 points by networked 1 month ago | 415 comments

A Substack essay on the not not Talmud blog explaining why the author is fascinated by Papua New Guinea and what they think everyone should know about it.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.