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.

Awesome repositories are no longer awesome(erikgahner.github.io)

239 points by erikgahner 8 days ago | 116 comments

A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.

The AI Bubble Monitor(cepr.net)

18 points by mooreds 10 days ago | 6 comments

A CEPR weekly tracker by Dean Baker comparing AI-driven stock market trends to historical averages and arguing against bailouts if the AI bubble bursts.

Patrick Stewart has died(nytimes.com)

3105 points by j4mie 15 days ago | 661 comments

A New York Times article reporting the death of actor Patrick Stewart; the captured page rendered blank.

New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x(livescience.com)

21 points by mrbluecoat 1 year ago | 7 comments

Exploring the space-time-stench continuum, where no nose has gone before(whyy.org)

5 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 2 comments

How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics(jamiesimon.io)

72 points by jamie-simon 1 month ago | 9 comments

Blog post by Jamie Simon on high-dimensional statistics, discussing a paper by Dhruva Karkada on data statistics and periodic structure in embeddings like calendar months.

How to be a -10x Engineer(taylor.town)

763 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 441 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town listing strategies for becoming a '-10x engineer' who wastes the output of ten engineers.

Introduction to Modern Statistics(openintro-ims2.netlify.app)

665 points by noelwelsh 3 years ago | 116 comments

Website for the free online textbook Introduction to Modern Statistics, Second Edition, by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin from the OpenIntro project.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf](fleuret.org)

420 points by dataminer 3 years ago | 29 comments

A PDF of François Fleuret's The Little Book of Deep Learning, a short introductory textbook on deep learning.

How to make sense of any mess(howtomakesenseofanymess.com)

412 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 120 comments

Website for Abby Covert's book "How to Make Sense of Any Mess," an introduction to information architecture for making sense of complex problems.

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me(anniemueller.com)

782 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 363 comments

A humorous blog post parodying how developer-written tutorials full of jargon read to a non-developer beginner.