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

An underqualified reading list about the transformer architecture (fvictorio.github.io)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by fvictorio_nan Oct 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What are you reading these days?

~ 21 pts 85 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Semicolons and the Rules of Writing – The Millions (themillions.com)

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

Ask HN: Is the Hemingway editor useful even in technical writing? (hemingwayapp.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by I_Nidhi Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Scream 7 | Official trailer (youtube.com)

~ 9 pts 9 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

VOGONS Vintage Driver Library (vogonsdrivers.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by keepamovin Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

About Writing (ssp.sh)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by sspaeti Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Torchforge – a PyTorch native library for scalable RL post-training (pytorch.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by Palmik Oct 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Show HN: I wrote a short book about how AI app builders like Lovable work (amazon.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by NabilChiheb Oct 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Interview with the creator of ZSNES (youtube.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by jmillikin Oct 30, 2025 gameshistoricalretrocomputingvideo Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A Brief History of the Cypherpunk Movement (seykhel.org)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by suioir Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Blank Page Website for Writing (focusforge.net)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by chwiho Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Solving the Character Encoding Issue When Reading DuckDB via ODBC in Excel VBA (redraiment.medium.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by redraiment Oct 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On (brianschrader.com)

HN 66 pts 56 comments by sonicrocketman Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 25 – instruction fine-tuning (gilesthomas.com)

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

Neural Speech Processing in Dyslexia: Early Predictors for Atypical Reading (helda.helsinki.fi)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by PaulHoule Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) (anilist.co)

~ 0 pts 0 comments by Tildes Oct 29, 2025 ~anime Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Experimental config driven LLM client library in Rust

HN 4 pts 0 comments by Sshmendez Oct 29, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

There were no good libraries I could find which let me create a runtime configurable llm client for use in agents. so I built this one which is runtime configurable and enables the discovery of available models and services.

Shifting Perspectives on Purchasing Open Source Software (futo.org)

L 1 pts 1 comments by Arya Oct 29, 2025 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Sixty Books a Year Book Club (bramadams.dev)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by _bramses Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Beyond the Page: Enriching Academic Paper Reading with Social Media Discussions (aceatusc.github.io)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by sadrasabouri Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

Cancerous oil-field wastewater is spreading through Oklahoma water supply (propublica.org)

HN 25 pts 4 comments by ck2 Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

When two films tell the same story differently (youtube.com)

~ 9 pts 1 comments by unknown Oct 29, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I built a free prompt library for AI browser-agents (500 prompts) (fillapp.ai)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by aramvr Oct 29, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web (katex.org)

HN 181 pts 74 comments by suioir Oct 29, 2025 Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK (bbc.co.uk)

HN 49 pts 39 comments by thinkingemote Oct 29, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Looking for movies that combine religion mythology and supernatural elements

~ 27 pts 48 comments by unknown Oct 29, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (asibahi.github.io)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by Bogdanp Oct 29, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Memorization, trivia, and atomic units for creativity (everestera.substack.com)

~ 8 pts 1 comments by unknown Oct 29, 2025 ~humanities Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Midweek Movie Free Talk

~ 8 pts 5 comments by unknown Oct 29, 2025 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread