Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading (2025-05)

Redis-cpp: a header-only library in C++17 for Redis (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by klaussilveira May 30, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What have you been listening to this week?

~ 9 pts 5 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

US Supreme Court allows Donald Trump to revoke legal status for 530K migrants for now (washingtonpost.com)

~ 20 pts 1 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: MLX (Apple Silicon tensor library) bindings for Erlang (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by arthurcolle May 30, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library (github.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by fanf2 May 30, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

On-Writing – Writing Tips, Tricks, and Tools (github.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by goji_berries May 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: Open-source LLM-powered test automation library for mobile and web (github.com)

HN 10 pts 2 comments by p0deje May 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Hey HN!<p>I'm Alex, a tech lead of the Selenium project and a QA engineer. For the last 10 months, I've been working on Alumnium - a test automation library that should make my life easier and let me write less code when automating the tests. The goal is to use LLM for _automating_ so I co...

Maintaining open source from prison (youtu.be)

L 6 pts 0 comments by jerodsanto May 30, 2025 culturevideo Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple (matttproud.com)

L 31 pts 1 comments by unlobito May 30, 2025 designhistoricalunix Systems / Low-Level / OS Design / UX / Visualization Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)

HN 250 pts 224 comments by birriel May 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I let Claude Code write an entire book (github.com)

HN 42 pts 83 comments by JayD0ubleu May 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing is everywhere: write more (catalinpit.substack.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by cmpit May 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The role of defense counsel in ensuring a fair US justice system (nacdl.org)

~ 10 pts 3 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Nordic governments are boosting defense spending, reassessing security and pushing the concept of total defense – mobilizing the whole of society to defend against military and non-military threats (apnews.com)

~ 16 pts 0 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~society Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: ChatGPT Library Exporter – Download ChatGPT Image Data (chromewebstore.google.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by qwikhost May 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Download all your ChatGPT-generated images in high quality and export metadata for easy organization—fast, simple, secure.

History of the Electronic Self Playing Piano System (thepianoworld.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by brudgers May 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Donald Trump administration wants to create a ‘US Office of Remigration’ (wired.com)

~ 29 pts 18 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

EGOISM - And Go Nowhere (2025) (egoismband.bandcamp.com)

~ 10 pts 8 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)

HN 5 pts 1 comments by hardmaru May 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

History of the Hindsight Letterbug tablet computer, circa 1986-1987 (overpricedsoftware.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by TMWNN May 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

New Livestream Brings Microfiche Digitization to Life for Democracy's Library (blog.archive.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by archagon May 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Linux Format - Final issue (linuxformat.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by gioele May 29, 2025 culture Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Casbin: An authorization library that supports authz models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by hek2sch May 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Susumu Yokota - Suture (2009) (youtube.com)

~ 6 pts 0 comments by unknown May 29, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Techno-Futuristic Philosophy Behind Elon Musk's Mania (nytimes.com)

HN 6 pts 1 comments by TMWNN May 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange (lithub.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by PaulHoule May 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Beam Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime System (blog.stenmans.org)

HN 32 pts 0 comments by Alupis May 29, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What we know (so far) about CSS reading order (css-tricks.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by jy14898 May 29, 2025 Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A break from programming languages (lexi-lambda.github.io)

L 92 pts 23 comments by soareschen May 29, 2025 personplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

My advice on (internet) writing, for what it's worth (dynomight.net)

HN 5 pts 1 comments by crescit_eundo May 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread