Emacs in the Age of Magic(commandlinesystems.com)

289 points by ggcr 2 days ago | 131 comments

A plain-text essay reflecting on Emacs culture after AI coding tools like Claude Code, with case studies of AI-built packages excali-mode.el and cooked.el.

OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM(openssh.org)

247 points by selckin 8 days ago | 12 comments

OpenSSH release notes for portable 10.6p2, which fixes a password authentication bypass in sshd on Linux systems using musl libc with PAM disabled.

Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)

63 points by pbohun 4 days ago | 18 comments

Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.

A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services(decoded.legal)

38 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 55 comments

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)(neilzone.co.uk)

130 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 83 comments

Pliny – Letters – Book 7 Letter 27 (On Ghosts)(vroma.org)

8 points by yubblegum 7 days ago | 1 comments

English translation of Pliny the Younger's Letter 7.27 to Sura, recounting ghost stories including Athenodorus and the haunted house in Athens.

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists(matteoraso.github.io)

520 points by matteoraso 5 days ago | 885 comments

A personal blog post arguing the AI industry may not be a bubble, citing Anthropic's S-1 figures, compute margins, revenue growth, and P/E ratios.

Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble(medium.com)

10 points by mpweiher 1 month ago | 10 comments

A Medium member-only opinion article in the Predict publication arguing that Oracle has triggered the collapse of the AI investment bubble.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.

Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble(lpeproject.org)

120 points by speckx 2 days ago | 151 comments

LPE Project blog post by economist Lenore Palladino arguing that pension funds and 401(k)s invested in private credit and equity are financing AI data centers.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)

333 points by yurivish 7 days ago | 300 comments

Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.