Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers(mikhailian.mova.org)

16 points by sam_lowry_ 4 months ago | 5 comments

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Programmable Cryptography (2024)(0xparc.org)

76 points by fi-le 8 months ago | 41 comments

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

The TTY Demystified (2008)(linusakesson.net)

69 points by jonasdegendt 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Farnese letter(simonklee.dk)

41 points by grigolin 1 month ago | 6 comments

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)

392 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 416 comments

A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.

Write some software, give it away for free(nonogra.ph)

350 points by nohell 5 months ago | 235 comments

An anonymous essay on Nonograph arguing for writing software and giving it away free, citing the platform's own low costs versus subscription-driven enshittification.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.