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Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading

Finding Order in the Mayhem: A Novel Concurrency Testing Tool that Improved the Kotlin Compiler (blog.jetbrains.com)
5 pts 0 comments by snej Oct 31, 2025 kotlintesting Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Interview with the creator of ZSNES (youtube.com)
6 pts 0 comments by jmillikin Oct 30, 2025 gameshistoricalretrocomputingvideo Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Shifting Perspectives on Purchasing Open Source Software (futo.org)
1 pts 1 comments by Arya Oct 29, 2025 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
39 pts 9 comments by calvin Oct 28, 2025 historicalwindows Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
A brief history of random numbers (crates.io)
29 pts 11 comments by makeworld Oct 28, 2025 mathrust Systems / Low-Level / OSScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
minicoro: Single header stackful cross-platform coroutine library in pure C (github.com)
9 pts 7 comments by linkdd Oct 28, 2025 cprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding in LLMs (transformer-circuits.pub)
2 pts 1 comments by nelhage Oct 27, 2025 aiscience AI / Machine LearningDesign / UX / VisualizationScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
341 pts 45 comments by bazzargh Oct 27, 2025 culturepython Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI (zdnet.com)
7 pts 43 comments by Foxboron Oct 27, 2025 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
What are you reading this week?
20 pts 46 comments by vlnn Oct 26, 2025 askbookculture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The roots of software development in the textile industry (2024) (asawicki.info)
2 pts 0 comments by rbr Oct 25, 2025 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Leaving the Freedesktop.org community (vt.social)
108 pts 58 comments by inactive-user Oct 24, 2025 cultureperson Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
NewPipe is turning 10 (newpipe.net)
32 pts 5 comments by two Oct 24, 2025 androidhistoricalprivacyreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / PrivacyCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal (ilearnt.com)
14 pts 8 comments by abnercoimbre Oct 24, 2025 historicalretrocomputing Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo (os2museum.com)
4 pts 0 comments by fro Oct 23, 2025 graphicshistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
This early SSD was wild (youtube.com)
2 pts 0 comments by gnyeki Oct 23, 2025 hardwarehistoricalvideo Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
5 pts 0 comments by calvin Oct 22, 2025 historicalperson Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance (buttondown.com)
44 pts 29 comments by Sietsebb Oct 21, 2025 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Bare metal (the emacs essay) (waxbanks.wordpress.com)
7 pts 0 comments by mysticmode Oct 21, 2025 emacs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Integer Set Library (ISL) - A Primer (jeremykun.com)
4 pts 0 comments by asb Oct 20, 2025 compilersmath Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System (2018) (personal.garrettfuller.org)
10 pts 0 comments by consteval Oct 19, 2025 historicalnetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
./watch (dotslashwatch.com)
24 pts 2 comments by hoistbypetard Oct 19, 2025 arthardware Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) (m.youtube.com)
3 pts 1 comments by lor_louis Oct 18, 2025 philosophyrantvideo Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Software can be finished (rosswintle.uk)
41 pts 27 comments by edwardloveall Oct 18, 2025 philosophypractices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
How we organized the Rust Clippy feature freeze (blog.goose.love)
16 pts 1 comments by BD103 Oct 18, 2025 historicalrust Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
What are you reading this week?
19 pts 27 comments by vlnn Oct 17, 2025 askbookculture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Design for the trash can (arpi.se)
37 pts 11 comments by brtkdotse Oct 16, 2025 philosophy Design / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
cl-tuition: a Common Lisp library for building TUIs inspired by Charm (github.com)
25 pts 16 comments by vindarel Oct 16, 2025 lisp Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Cal.com's Open Source UI Library (coss.com)
2 pts 0 comments by WA9ACE Oct 15, 2025 css Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The DHH Problem (2014) (tomstu.art)
117 pts 97 comments by lr0 Oct 14, 2025 culturerubyvideo Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading