Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading (2025-01)

Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source (opensource.org)

L 5 pts 0 comments by pauloxnet Jan 31, 2025 aiculturelaw AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Trying (and Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover (lithub.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by zdw Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Mikala Jamison turned her newsletter into a book deal (on.substack.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by domofutu Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The GNU C Library version 2.41 is now available (lists.gnu.org)

HN 9 pts 0 comments by thunderbong Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ask HN: History of the F2 "edit cell" hotkey in Excel?

HN 1 pts 0 comments by debo_ Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Hi HN,<p>I recently had a younger colleague bemoan the awkwardness of using the F2 keyboard shortcut for something as frequent as editing a cell. It's such powerful muscle memory for me after 30+ years -- even on laptop keyboards -- that I don't really notice it.<p>I also grew up playing v...

A fork in the road: Is US federal employee privacy compromised? (muellershewrote.com)

~ 22 pts 4 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~society Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The VGHF Library opens in early access (gamehistory.org)

L 5 pts 0 comments by JordiGH Jan 31, 2025 gameshistorical Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Trade tariffs tomorrow and now US President Donald Trump is jockeying for Canadian water. Americans, what's your take on this?

~ 18 pts 20 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What have you been listening to this week?

~ 12 pts 11 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

An AI-written book shows why the tech 'terrifies' creatives (bbc.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by pseudolus Jan 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A brief history of counting machines (2023) (lcamtuf.substack.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by gus_leonel Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Arion – Like A Phoenix I Will Rise (2025) (youtube.com)

~ 2 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Alt-Right Playbook: The south bank of the rubicon (youtube.com)

~ 16 pts 18 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing Brittle Code (blog.waleedkhan.name)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by thunderbong Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Claes Bang: ‘I think I have more of a sense of humour in English than I do in Danish’ (theguardian.com)

~ 8 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing a formatter has never been so easy: a Topiary tutorial (tweag.io)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by JNRowe Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ask HN: What are some great books for teaching reading to kids under 5?

HN 5 pts 10 comments by BOOSTERHIDROGEN Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I'm looking for book recommendations that are effective for teaching reading to children under the age of 5. What books have you found to be particularly engaging and educational for early reading skills?

The Video Game History Foundation Library Opens in Early Access (gamehistory.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by k1tanaka Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

She Wrote a Racy Book. Now She's Worried Her Son Will Find It (wsj.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by erehweb Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Can anyone recommend a translation of the Odyssey?

~ 14 pts 7 comments by unknown Jan 31, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

R package for collaborative writing of R Markdown documents in Google Docs (github.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by karencarits Jan 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Effects of Noise and Public Setting on Blood Pressure Readings (acpjournals.org)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by bookofjoe Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

elbow - Empires (2019) (youtube.com)

~ 6 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A Personal History of the Tidyverse (hadley.github.io)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by sebg Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

library.gamehistory.org — now in early access (youtube.com)

~ 16 pts 3 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Video Game History Foundation Library (library.gamehistory.org)

HN 2 pts 2 comments by homarp Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Video Game History Foundation Digital Library Now Available in Early Access (timeextension.com)

HN 2 pts 2 comments by homarp Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Books written by humans are getting their own certification to distinguish from AI authored books (theverge.com)

~ 30 pts 17 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~books AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

library.gamehistory.org – Now in early access [video] (youtube.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by CharlesW Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fake papers contaminate world scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry (theconversation.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by rntn Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread