10 stories tagged john-carmack, newest first.
561 points by bobbydigitales | 346 comments
An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.
592 points by notmcrowley | 98 comments
A website presenting the rumoured list of ML papers Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack (27 known so far) in a beginner-friendly format.
507 points by shadowtree | 252 comments
John Carmack's X post reflecting on early id Software mistakes: Quake's overambition, pushing staff too hard, and a flawed founder stock arrangement.
829 points by apitman | 394 comments
A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.
447 points by azhenley | 523 comments
A tweet by John Carmack advocating single assignment and avoiding variable reassignment, noting that in C/C++ making variables const by default is good practice.
506 points by OlympicMarmoto | 591 comments
An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.
492 points by tosh | 325 comments
A post on X by John Carmack about his talk at the Upper Bound 2025 AI conference; the page shows only a loading spinner.
757 points by turrini | 682 comments
A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.
528 points by bpierre | 363 comments
Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.
329 points by sotasota | 263 comments
A post by John Carmack on X arguing that AI behavior guardrails set via prompt engineering and filtering should be made public.