A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director(substack.com)

232 points by cfcfcf 1 year ago | 92 comments

APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)(medium.com)

94 points by tailrecursion 3 years ago | 80 comments

Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you(twitter.com)

272 points by mashally 1 day ago | 176 comments

An X post reporting that Samsung Tizen TVs run an INT8 AlexNet TensorFlow Lite model on 960x540 screen captures every few seconds to identify which game is being played.

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)

2422 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 280 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airplanes fly by examining the forces generated by airflow around wings and airfoils.

Music Theory for Programmers(runjs.app)

352 points by birdculture 1 month ago | 221 comments

A RunJS blog post by Luke Haas explaining music theory concepts for programmers, likely with JavaScript code examples.

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says(arstechnica.com)

452 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 153 comments

Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.