976
464
If you're remote, ramble
https://stephango.com/ramblings
1 year ago
869
428
Modern Node.js Patterns
https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
581
147
Writing a good design document
https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document
408
230
So you want to parse a PDF?
https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
137
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
363
253
Tokens are getting more expensive
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed
359
102
Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html
353
36
Automerge 3.0
https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/
142
UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/
274
229
Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding
259
352
The Dollar Is Dead
https://mathmeetsmoney.substack.com/p/the-dollar-is-dead
239
26
How to make almost anything (2019)
https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html
201
61
How to grow almost anything
https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25
153
110
A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth
152
50
Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript
https://comptime.js.org/
150
52
Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise
https://news.asu.edu/20250725-environment-and-sustainability-new-global-study-shows-freshwater-disappearing-alarming
145
A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html
143
14
Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo
https://thenumb.at/QMC/
139
112
C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML
https://www.reachablecode.com/2025/07/31/c26-reflections-adventures-compile-time-uml/
126
87
How Python grew from a language to a community
https://thenewstack.io/how-python-grew-from-a-language-to-a-community/
119
Palantir: The Most Evil Company
https://politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worlds-most-evil-company
115
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization
https://theconversation.com/yosemite-embodies-the-long-war-over-us-national-park-privatization-261133
111
68
One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either
https://medium.com/@russoatlarge_93541/i-built-a-privacy-app-google-banned-me-over-a-dataset-used-in-ai-research-66bc0dfb2310
104
34
This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)
https://archive.irixnet.org/thisoldsgi/
100
29
Writing a basic service for GNU Guix
https://tannerhoelzel.com/gnu-shepherd-simple-service.html
96
20
Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language
https://seed7.net
28
The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals
https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/book/11
89
66
ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online
https://growtika.com/chatgpt-shared-chats-seo-indexing-privacy-leak/
84
30
In the future all food will be cooked in a microwave
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
62
Self-employed, self-exhausted
https://theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/self-employed-self-exhausted
82
118
'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/job-market-report-college-student-graduates-ai-trump-tariffs-rcna221693
80
189
Apple lacks strategic vision
https://unherd.com/2025/08/time-is-running-out-for-tim-cook/?lang=us
78
8
Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements
https://herbie.uwplse.org/
75
113
$83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight
https://viewfromthewing.com/83-billion-wasted-showing-up-at-the-airport-3-hours-before-your-flight-is-a-system-failure-no-ones-trying-to-fix/
74
59
Coursera’s Preview Mode
https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-preview-mode-paywall/
11
Jobs data denialism won't fool anyone
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont-fool
How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase
https://www.sabrina.dev/p/ultimate-ai-coding-guide-claude-code
73
10
Everything to know about UniFi OS Server
https://deluisio.com/networking/unifi/2025/08/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-unifi-os-server-before-you-waste-time-testing-it/
72
97
Italy's pizza detectives
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250801-italys-undercover-pizza-detectives
71
The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2025/fulbright/
57
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second
EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office
https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-health-records
Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780249
88
Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/google-dropped-50-dei-groups-from-funding-list-.html
60
58
The Algebra Gatekeepers
https://www.educationprogress.org/p/the-algebra-gatekeepers
One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days
https://lowendbox.com/blog/one-third-of-the-web-will-stop-working-in-4-days-massive-scale-cdn-compromise-starts-wednesday/
12
The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglzl1ez283o
