The Hacker Manifesto phrack.org ↗

Hatching Twitter Learning & books

A book by Nick Bilton on the early history of Twitter.

Life 3.0 Learning & books

A book by Max Tegmark about the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on society.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Learning & books

A 2018 book by Shoshana Zuboff on how tech companies monetise behavioural data.

How I Became Stupid ↗Learning & books

A novel by Martin Page about a man who deliberately tries to become less intelligent to be happier.

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview ↗Learning & books

A 1995 interview of Steve Jobs by Cringely, released as a film in 2012.

Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur ↗Learning & books

A textbook introducing quantum field theory to readers with some mathematical background.

Troubleshooting Analog Circuits Learning & books

Bob Pease's book on diagnosing problems in analog circuits.

Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? ↗Learning & books

Paul McKenney's book on parallel programming drawn from Linux kernel experience.

Careless People

A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.

Forvo ↗

A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗

A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.

A Perfect Vacuum

Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗

A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.

Accelerando

A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.

Ashton Manual

A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.

Atomic Physics for Everyone

An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.

Axiomatic ↗

A short story collection by Greg Egan.

Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗

An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.

Big O Speedrun ↗

A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.

Bridge of Waves

A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.