Emacs in the Age of Magic(commandlinesystems.com)
289 points by ggcr | 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.
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Awesome repositories are no longer awesome(erikgahner.github.io)
239 points by erikgahner | 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A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.
I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)
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.
Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)
63 points by pbohun | 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.
OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM(openssh.org)
247 points by selckin | 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.
Variable-width Bézier curves (2025)(luthert.web.illinois.edu)
26 points by leduyquang753 | 7 comments
A blog post by Luther Tychonievich explaining how to draw variable-width (pressure-sensitive) Bézier curves with current 2D graphics APIs for board-work tablet apps.
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I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)(code.mendhak.com)
762 points by ekiauhce | 546 comments
Blog post describing how the author mailed a letter to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received a printed copy of the GPLv3 license in return.
Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed(github.com)
6 points by nico | 1 comments
GitHub repository for Jeffy, a Python library of pretrained text classifiers that run and retrain locally on CPU without a GPU.
Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan(veiledantiquity.com)
4 points by darkwater | 0 comments
Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)
463 points by benbreen | 222 comments
Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.
Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue(github.com)
350 points by jeeybee | 110 comments
GitHub repository for PgQueuer, a Python library that uses PostgreSQL and LISTEN/NOTIFY to implement an efficient job queue.
Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)
346 points by todsacerdoti | 269 comments
Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.