Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading (2025-08)

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles (mit.edu)

HN 24 pts 5 comments by ntnbr Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and one version of MS-DOS (arstechnica.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by mariuz Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing in Djot (pdx.su)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by networked Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Rhode Island's tax on vacation homes of the wealthy is spreading to other states (cnbc.com)

HN 15 pts 8 comments by jameslk Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What is the entropy of a ghost? Hauntology and the Dead Internet (notes.hella.cheap)

L 2 pts 0 comments by bobpoekert Aug 31, 2025 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (github.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by akbarnama Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Data Engineering is Not Software Engineering (2022) (medium.com)

L 8 pts 8 comments by deejayy Aug 31, 2025 culturepractices Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why? (history.stackexchange.com)

L 89 pts 9 comments by azeemba Aug 31, 2025 cryptographyhistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Inessential: Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn't Be So Difficult (inessential.com)

HN 5 pts 0 comments by surprisetalk Aug 31, 2025 Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Re-reading "Moby-Dick" at Ahab's age (calebcrain.substack.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by pseudolus Aug 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006) (web.engr.oregonstate.edu)

HN 33 pts 2 comments by alhazraed Aug 31, 2025 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

China Miéville

~ 10 pts 10 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Bootstrapping a Forth for Art (tia.mat.br)

L 17 pts 0 comments by iv Aug 30, 2025 concatenativeperformance Programming Languages / CS Theory Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

US has invasive bullfrog problem spreading in west: Scientists alarmed (vox.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by bookofjoe Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing letters with groff and an old printer (uninformativ.de)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by zdw Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn't Be So Difficult (inessential.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by 8organicbits Aug 30, 2025 Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

PhotonLibOS: Stackful coroutines and async IO library (github.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by klaussilveira Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Web We Lost (2012) (anildash.com)

L 11 pts 3 comments by probablyrobert Aug 30, 2025 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Philosophy of Philosophy (neonomos.substack.com)

HN 2 pts 2 comments by paulpauper Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

AI Translation Is Killing Chinese Literature (and That's Good) (thenexus.media)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by natalie3p Aug 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (2021) (wired.com)

HN 42 pts 16 comments by naves Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: I made a library of 200+ viral TikTok ads for B2C content ideas (demos.firehooks.io)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Tanvir3 Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Sharing this free resource I made for B2C SaaS founders who market using short form content.<p>I made this because I post TikToks to promote some SaaS apps I have (irrelevant), so I’m constantly looking for content ideas that’ll help me go viral<p>Like everyone else, I usually do this by saving hund...

2x Performance, $300k Savings: Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust at TikTok (wxiaoyun.com)

HN 1 pts 2 comments by skeptrune Aug 30, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Efficient Deep Learning Book (efficientdlbook.com)

HN 21 pts 0 comments by Maro Aug 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Long History of Life on Mars (newyorker.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by petethomas Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Statechart – Minimal Generic Statechart Library for Go (github.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by all2 Aug 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Moof! in Mind! The history of dogcow (1997) (storybytes.com)

L 11 pts 3 comments by probablyrobert Aug 30, 2025 historicalmac Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

snuffle / salsa / chacha (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

L 37 pts 1 comments by fanf Aug 29, 2025 cryptographyhistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines (seiya.me)

HN 135 pts 14 comments by ingve Aug 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Everybody Imitates Hypnotoad (History of and Recreating the Hypnotoad Sound) (scottsmitelli.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by jszymborski Aug 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread