The People's Bookshelf (Riga, Latvia)(tautasgramatuplaukts.lv)
8 points by wmchen | 0 comments
Information page for The People's Bookshelf, a collection of donated books with personal messages in the atrium of the National Library of Latvia in Riga.
#libraries on Hacker News
10 stories tagged libraries, newest first.
Effect 4.0(effect.website)
41 points by stevefan1999 | 21 comments
Blog post announcing the release of Effect 4.0, a TypeScript library rebuilt from the ground up with a dependency-free core and long-term support.
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.
Renting a sewing machine from the library(bbc.com)
327 points by sohkamyung | 194 comments
BBC Future article on Finnish public libraries that lend items like sewing machines and how such libraries can strengthen democracy.
Internet Archive Switzerland(blog.archive.org)
671 points by hggh | 108 comments
Internet Archive blog post announcing Internet Archive Switzerland, a new Swiss organization expanding its mission to preserve knowledge.
Libghostty is coming(mitchellh.com)
774 points by kingori | 243 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing libghostty, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state.
Librarians are dangerous(bradmontague.substack.com)
627 points by mooreds | 591 comments
A Substack essay by Brad Montague titled "Librarians are dangerous"; the captured page shows only a Substack error message.
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)(theatlantic.com)
456 points by lispybanana | 175 comments
A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.
CIEL Is an Extended Lisp(ciel-lang.org)
373 points by todsacerdoti | 91 comments
Landing page for CIEL, a batteries-included extension of Common Lisp that remains 100% Common Lisp, with links to GitHub and docs.
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed(sbstatesman.com)
1574 points by raybb | 532 comments
Opinion column in The Statesman (Stony Brook student paper) arguing that losing the Internet Archive would be a major blow to preserving online knowledge.