Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading (2025-10)

Lightweight 2D Framebuffer Library for Linux (github.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by leventkaya Oct 31, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

How the Substack feed is learning to understand your reading journey (mrkcohen.substack.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by cjbest Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Libcpu: A library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM (github.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Oct 31, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Shouting at stars: A history of interstellar messages (youtube.com)

~ 12 pts 3 comments by unknown Oct 31, 2025 ~space Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ten years of joeblu.com (joeblu.com)

L 2 pts 1 comments by abnercoimbre Oct 31, 2025 cultureprivacyweb Web Development Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: Paykit – one SDK for Stripe, PayPal, Paddle (stop reading 5 API docs) (usepaykit.dev)

HN 8 pts 0 comments by emmanuelodii Oct 31, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: I'm tired of reading five different API docs just to accept payments

HN 1 pts 0 comments by devodii Oct 31, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I built Paykit because I got tired of reading a new API doc every time I needed to integrate payments. Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, Polar, they all have slightly different models, webhooks, and dashboards. It’s annoying if you ship a lot of small projects or handle payments across multiple platforms.<p>P...

Ask HN: Advanced AI Book Recommendations

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

Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages (youtube.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by kelvilee Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with far-right antisemite Nick Fuentes divides prominent US conservatives (theguardian.com)

~ 26 pts 6 comments by unknown Oct 31, 2025 ~society Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe [video] (youtube.com)

HN 12 pts 0 comments by spacebuffer Oct 31, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Eric Lippert: I'm writing another book (ericlippert.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by cyndunlop Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Mini book on braid groups [pdf] (numdam.org)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by marysminefnuf Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

AI-assisted writing (without the Slop) (jampa.dev)

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

I'm tired of reading five different API docs just to accept payments

HN 6 pts 4 comments by devodii Oct 31, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I built Paykit because I got tired of reading a new API doc every time I needed to integrate payments.<p>Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, Polar, they all have slightly different models, webhooks, and dashboards. It’s annoying if you ship a lot of small projects or handle payments across multiple platforms.<p...

What have you been listening to this week?

~ 3 pts 2 comments by unknown Oct 31, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Godchilla – Psionic Dreams (2025) (youtube.com)

~ 4 pts 0 comments by unknown Oct 31, 2025 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Finding Order in the Mayhem: A Novel Concurrency Testing Tool that Improved the Kotlin Compiler (blog.jetbrains.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by snej Oct 31, 2025 kotlintesting Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I'm writing a journal about my own company-building experiences (fromzerotollc.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by erayalakese Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A Brief History of Terminal Emulators (charm.land)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by allenleee Oct 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Container Security book by Liz Rice (2nd edition, free download) (isovalent.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by tanelpoder Oct 31, 2025 Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Review of John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" (theaxolot.wordpress.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Axol Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A Brief History of Domains (dotcom.press)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by whalesalad Oct 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (nytimes.com)

~ 38 pts 24 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

US libraries scramble for books after giant distributor shuts down (404media.co)

~ 25 pts 5 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Cool Library for Rack Display (react-networks-example-site.vercel.app)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by jammo Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

NYT photo essay: How NASA’s lunar photography brought the heavens down to Earth (nytimes.com)

~ 8 pts 3 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~space Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why Disney ditched ‘Doctor Who’ (deadline.com)

~ 25 pts 17 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~tv Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Memlz: Fast compression library for C/C++ on x64/x86 (github.com)

HN 6 pts 0 comments by nateb2022 Oct 30, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

One API to book across Vagaro, Mindbody, Fresha, and other scheduling platforms (topfunnel.io)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by venuur Oct 30, 2025 Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread