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I was flirting with the idea ... Plus some insanely cool ideas ... The problem is that as beautiful as programing in that sound, we're not even coding anymore, AIs will take the fu…

It looks surprisingly Mac-like, except the font kind of spoils the illusion.

Previously: Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271 9 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments

From the article: "... Working a corporate job had enough drudgery to begin with, but the last year it has become more necessary than ever to have a place of accomplishment which i…

John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information A…

Here's a simulation in Lisp: https://josephoswald.nfshost.com/circuit-sim/woz-machine-hw-...

I wonder what a hobby OS would have looked like it if it assumed nothing, that is, as a thought experiment ... There are some hobby OS projects that do this. The best known example…

"Did you take that test yourself?"

Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.

Grugs are a different species: https://grugbrain.dev/

In Elif Batuman's 2017 novel The Idiot , about a naive Harvard student, her not-really-a-boyfriend Ivan, a math student, enthuses to her about Emacs. The book is set in 1995. I enj…

https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-... Dramatic sepia photograph contrasts with understated gray text on light gray background with lots of empty space.

https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm Explanation of Sudoku in APL. Lots of information, absolutely no clutter. Entire page is nothing but text in a single precise sans-serif typewr…

https://www.datagubbe.se/short/ Header, body, trailer panels with three complementary background shades that soften the large black sans-serif typography.

What project was that? via this discussion in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729461 (2020) I found: Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await (2020) https://os.phil-opp.com/as…

Particles accelerating in a cyclotron at sufficiently high energy reach relativistic speeds. You have to account for their relativistic mass increase to get the cyclotron to work. …

I haven't seen it mentioned here or in the obituaries, but Peter started the RISKS Digest in 1985 partly in response to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, "Star Wars") which pr…

Previously, 2023, 19 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982037 There are updates in the last several months, so it looks like the project is still active.

Nice page design, so I will try to read the content.

Also pertinent and well-written, from the Vatican itself, including some quotes from Pope Francis: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... ANTIQUA ET NOVA :…

"Keep cool, but care" - McClintic Sphere, ca 1959 (fictional jazz musician in V, the 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon)

This is a remarkable, very unusual project. It looks well thought out and is surprisingly complete -- it even includes an end-to-end ML training and sampling program as an example!…

I'm getting a 404 on the repo. Possible alternatives: smolOS: https://smol.p1x.in/os/ https://github.com/w84death/smolOS/ upyOS: https://github.com/rbenrax/upyOS MicroPythonOS: htt…

Starfleet Academy is some woke fever dream ... This is entirely in keeping with the Star Trek tradition. It had a multiracial cast and female officers in 1966, when that was quite …