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1095 points by razin | 204 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement that a 21-year-old computer science student discovered the first word read inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
60 points by GloVin | 76 comments
A Stork AI daily newsletter issue led by a report that Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200, plus other AI news items.
441 points by jruohonen | 108 comments
Murat Demirbas's blog post arguing writing is a thinking tool, with five rules for writing and thoughts on writing in the age of LLMs.
136 points by porridgeraisin | 155 comments
A LessWrong shortform comment by Arjun Panickssery arguing AI agents show poor research judgment in autonomous R&D side projects like a Scrabble engine and philosophy research.
14 points by aragonite | 2 comments
Wikipedia article on ergodic literature, Espen Aarseth's concept of texts requiring nontrivial reader effort to traverse, including his cybertext typology and examples.
1371 points by ayhanfuat | 172 comments
Discourse thread on discuss.python.org where Guido van Rossum announces the death of Tim Peters and recounts his contributions to Python, with community tributes.
9 points by dcminter | 0 comments
Vesuvius Challenge Substack post announcing the award of a $50,000 First Letters Prize for reading text in Herculaneum scroll PHerc 343.
1287 points by amrrs | 200 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.
1608 points by verditelabs | 353 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement page reporting that an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll has been virtually unrolled and read for the first time.
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.