Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year(pb.co.za)

76 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 65 comments

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

84 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 54 comments

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver(dmitrybrant.com)

833 points by dmitrybrant 1 year ago | 275 comments

A blog post by Dmitry Brant describing how he used Claude Code to update an old Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives to work with modern kernels.

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

37 points by andrewstuart 3 years ago | 3 comments

80386 microcode disassembled(reenigne.org)

260 points by nand2mario 5 months ago | 49 comments

Do charity bookshops drive out other second-hand bookshops?(wormwoodiana.blogspot.com)

60 points by fogus 1 year ago | 59 comments

Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless(economist.com)

89 points by burntcaramel 1 month ago | 83 comments

An Economist leader article arguing that many back and shoulder surgeries are ineffective or harmful compared with alternatives.

Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)

448 points by signa11 20 days ago | 352 comments

A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.

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.

We’re all just temporarily abled(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

793 points by imadj 3 years ago | 447 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on a knee injury and the idea that everyone is only temporarily abled, relating it to accessibility.

Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones(ephemeral.cx)

36 points by speckx 23 days ago | 11 comments

A personal blog post recounting a friend's late-night arrest and urging readers to prepare information and plans to help loved ones if arrested.

Your body of work thinks back at you(photoni.st)

88 points by surprisetalk 26 days ago | 15 comments

An opinion post on a personal photography blog about noticing unexpected patterns, like recurring photos of empty benches, in one's own photo archive.