Jules Verne's Lost Novel(blue-continuum.com)
136 points by dnetesn | 32 comments
Essay on Jules Verne's long-unpublished 1863 novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, comparing its predictions of 1960 Paris's technology and culture with reality.
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A man who listens to whales(blue-continuum.com)
11 points by dnetesn | 2 comments
Blue Continuum feature profiling David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying and believes it may be possible.
Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales(blue-continuum.com)
79 points by dnetesn | 60 comments
A Blue Continuum magazine profile of David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying, using AI to analyze their communication.
A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)(quantum5.ca)
43 points by ibobev | 7 comments
A blog tutorial on setting up and using systemd-nspawn containers, covering creating rootfses for Debian, Fedora, and Alpine and booting them.
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The typo generation is damaging literature(metropolitanreview.org)
54 points by bryanrasmussen | 73 comments
A Metropolitan Review essay criticizing typos and editorial sloppiness in Percival Everett's novel The Trees and arguing for a broader 'Typo Generation' in literature.
Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)
318 points by drcwpl | 81 comments
A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.
Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)
788 points by vaylian | 250 comments
Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.
Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)
332 points by alihm | 285 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.
The age of average(alexmurrell.co.uk)
877 points by kloch | 430 comments
Essay by Alex Murrell arguing that design, art, architecture, and culture are converging on homogeneous averages, starting with Komar and Melamid's survey-based painting.
Static search trees: faster than binary search(curiouscoding.nl)
585 points by atombender | 196 comments
A long blog post by Ragnar Groot Koerkamp implementing and optimizing a static S+ search tree for high-throughput sorted-data search, reaching up to 40x faster than binary search.