Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)(kevinboone.me)
33 points by linuxkernal | 14 comments
A tutorial on building the z80pack Z80 emulator and cpmtools on Linux to run CP/M 3 and play the Infocom text adventure Zork 1.
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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A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.
They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7(kevinboone.me)
178 points by andsoitis | 106 comments
Kevin Boone's retrospective blog post on Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5), its strengths for early Windows programming, and why it declined.
I don't care if web content is AI-generated(kevinboone.me)
4 points by andsoitis | 0 comments
Personal essay by Kevin Boone arguing that AI-generated web content should be judged like any untrusted content, since human content is often equally unreliable.
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.
100x Developers(jcarreras.es)
32 points by krenel | 33 comments
A personal blog post questioning claims of AI-enabled "100x developers," arguing such multipliers only apply in narrow cases and that 2x team gains are already great.
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The Mars Delusion(noemamag.com)
8 points by Tomte | 4 comments
Noema Magazine essay arguing that establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk and questioning why so many people are obsessed with it.
Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)
5 points by samstress | 6 comments
A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.
Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)
520 points by rajeevk | 549 comments
An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
How to Assemble Science(aeon.co)
6 points by karakoram | 0 comments
An Aeon essay on how humanity can make sense of the vast amount of new scientific knowledge produced daily by synthesizing existing research.
The Duty of a Scholar(daemonology.net)
128 points by gslin | 33 comments
Colin Percival's essay on the ethical duty to share knowledge, recounting his 2005 Hyper-Threading side-channel disclosure and drawing on Fichte's lectures on the scholar.