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

History of YC Request for Startups (docs.google.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by stanleytack Jan 30, 2025 Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ask HN: What front end framework/library is the best to learn as a BE dev?

HN 1 pts 2 comments by dondraper36 Jan 30, 2025 Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A few days ago, I asked about Ruby in Rails and the general consensus was that it's great and boring framework that is a joy to work with, especially for bootstrapping.<p>My next question is more complicated because the FE ecosystem is expectedly even more crazy than in BE.<p>My goal is to inve...

Besides Shawshank Redemption, what films do you like that feature grit, resilience, endurance under hostile circumstances?

~ 32 pts 40 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What are some favorite books with themes of grit, endurance, resilience, living through hostile circumstances?

~ 18 pts 17 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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

Epica - Cross the Divide (2025) (youtube.com)

~ 11 pts 2 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Video Game History Foundation's digital library opens in early access (gamehistory.org)

HN 8 pts 1 comments by coldpie Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GNU C Library (glibc) 2.41 released (lists.gnu.org)

HN 7 pts 0 comments by jlpcsl Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Antiqua et nova - Note on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence (vatican.va)

~ 5 pts 1 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~humanities AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fear Of Domination – Last Words (2024) (youtube.com)

~ 3 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Sweden points to ‘foreign power’ after Iraqi refugee on trial for Qur’an burnings shot dead (theguardian.com)

~ 7 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A history of APL in the USSR (1991) (dl.acm.org)

HN 125 pts 21 comments by todsacerdoti Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

History of APL in the USSR (dl.acm.org)

L 12 pts 1 comments by veqq Jan 30, 2025 aplhistoricalpdf Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

No Hype DeepSeek-R1 Reading List (oxen.ai)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by Philpax Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Signals Library in Python (github.com)

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

Writing Brittle Code (blog.waleedkhan.name)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by todsacerdoti Jan 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Machine Learning in Production: From Models to Products (Book) (mlip-cmu.github.io)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by peterfication Jan 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay (nbcnews.com)

~ 48 pts 51 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~society Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What’s a book about your area that you think would be interesting to people outside of it?

~ 35 pts 35 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

White House response adds to confusion on US federal funding freeze (npr.org)

~ 19 pts 5 comments by unknown Jan 29, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

My experience doing a part-time philosophy degree alongside a full-time job (mynamelowercase.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by Gormisdomai Jan 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Started Writing on LeadDev:) (leaddev.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by dunyakirkali Jan 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Pre-hype DeepSeek Liang Wenfeng profile/philosophy (nytimes.com)

HN 4 pts 2 comments by govideo Jan 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ask HN: Why do so many AI researchers care about philosophy?

HN 1 pts 2 comments by amichail Jan 29, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Has philosophy contributed anything important to AI?

SpicyCamCast – A Lightweight, Open-Source Screencast/Webcam Library (github.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by sagiadinos Jan 29, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Donald Trump White House rescinds freeze on US federal grants, reversing course (washingtonpost.com)

~ 24 pts 3 comments by unknown Jan 29, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Reading notes: unsupervised word translation (yourdomain.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by jxmorris12 Jan 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: Codegen – OSS Python Library for Advanced Code Manipulation (docs.codegen.com)

HN 14 pts 3 comments by _jayhack_ Jan 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Hey HN! We've just open-sourced Codegen (<a href="https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk">https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk</a>), a Python library for manipulating Python + JS/React codebases.<p>Codegen was engineered backwards from real-w...

What's a song that you initially didn't enjoy, but it grew on you over time and is now a favorite?

~ 23 pts 18 comments by unknown Jan 29, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text (arxiv.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by eatonphil Jan 29, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread