I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)

136 points by porridgeraisin 7 days ago | 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.

Show HN: Nonius Clock(lykahb.com)

50 points by lykahb 3 years ago | 15 comments

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming(gyptazy.com)

64 points by JohnDohnBohn 5 hours ago | 15 comments

Blog post presenting a work-in-progress RFC implementation of live VM migration for bhyve on FreeBSD 15.1, covering design, test results, and blockers to upstreaming.

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.

How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm(rashil2000.me)

91 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 52 comments

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)

5 points by raphlinus 6 days ago | 1 comments

Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller for his vic-2350 project.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages(jhiblog.org)

15 points by benbreen 24 days ago | 4 comments

JHI Blog essay on how late-medieval writers like Oresme, Mézières, and Froissart used mechanical clocks, which needed constant maintenance, as metaphors for cosmic and political order.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

On the Nature of Time(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

326 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 221 comments

Stephen Wolfram essay arguing that time is best understood computationally, as the progressive application of computational rules by the universe.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.