Lobster Roll

All Programming (General) 799 Systems / Low-Level / OS 583 AI / Machine Learning 542 Programming Languages / CS Theory 430 Data / Databases / Infrastructure 377 Web Development 276 Security / Privacy 233 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading 211 Productivity / Career / Business 162 Gaming / Retro Computing 129 Design / UX / Visualization 112 Maker / DIY / Hardware 112 Science / Math / Physics 72 Apple / macOS / iOS 67 Internet / Digital Culture 48 Health / Fitness / Lifestyle 5

Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading

Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era (felixbarbalet.com)
11 pts 8 comments by adityaathalye Mar 1, 2026 clojurevibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
26 pts 0 comments by classichasclass Feb 28, 2026 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
25 pts 4 comments by mpweiher Feb 28, 2026 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) of WIMP Design (uxtigers.com)
3 pts 2 comments by abnercoimbre Feb 27, 2026 design Design / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
ZSA: Andrew Smith (people.zsa.io)
8 pts 3 comments by alper Feb 27, 2026 hardwareperson Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Mothlamp Problems (unfoldingdiagrams.leaflet.pub)
115 pts 47 comments by notjack Feb 27, 2026 philosophy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
“Our programs are fun to use.” (unsung.aresluna.org)
39 pts 2 comments by aashvik Feb 27, 2026 culturedesignhistorical Programming (General)Design / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Man Who Stole Infinity (quantamagazine.org)
12 pts 1 comments by jo3_l Feb 27, 2026 historicalmath Science / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
sudo-rs Now Prints *s for Password Feedback By Default (phoronix.com)
13 pts 5 comments by RaphGL Feb 26, 2026 cultureunix Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
On the Problem of LLM-assisted Contributions to Open Source Projects (call-with-current-continuation.org)
3 pts 0 comments by sjamaan Feb 26, 2026 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Introducing Lyte2D: A comfy little game engine (lyte2d.com)
12 pts 11 comments by Relax Feb 26, 2026 artgames Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History (youtu.be)
5 pts 1 comments by fanf Feb 25, 2026 unixvideo Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Dear researchers: Is AI all you've got? (austinhenley.com)
10 pts 0 comments by jryans Feb 24, 2026 aiculture AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing (discord.com)
4 pts 0 comments by consteval Feb 24, 2026 cultureprivacy Security / PrivacyCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
4 blog posts by Brantley Coile (of PIX firewall and ATA-over-Ethernet fame) on going flying with Niklaus Wirth (coraid.com)
2 pts 0 comments by lproven Feb 24, 2026 historical Security / PrivacyCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingInternet / Digital Culture
framedeck: A Framework mainboard based Cyberdeck (2022) (github.com)
27 pts 7 comments by hoistbypetard Feb 24, 2026 arthardware Programming (General)Security / PrivacyMaker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Building your own blogging tools is a fun journey (andregarzia.com)
8 pts 0 comments by SoapDog Feb 24, 2026 cultureweb Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Hetzner Price Adjustment (docs.hetzner.com)
67 pts 20 comments by sigio Feb 23, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
jit: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C. Targets x86-32, x86-64, ARM32 and ARM64 (github.com)
10 pts 7 comments by linkdd Feb 23, 2026 cvibecoding AI / Machine LearningSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
32 pts 6 comments by GeoffWozniak Feb 22, 2026 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
CSLib: The Lean Computer Science Library (arxiv.org)
11 pts 0 comments by avsm Feb 22, 2026 formalmethods Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976 (ams.org)
17 pts 0 comments by fanf Feb 22, 2026 historicalmath Design / UX / VisualizationScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Aesthetics of Single Threading (ta.fo)
-1 pts 2 comments by emschwartz Feb 21, 2026 philosophypractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Whale Fall (nesbitt.io)
26 pts 0 comments by kngl Feb 21, 2026 culturepractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links (arstechnica.com)
75 pts 22 comments by videah Feb 21, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Rise and Fall of Scala: A Love Letter to the Language That Broke My Heart (medium.com)
9 pts 22 comments by b--man Feb 21, 2026 historicalprogrammingscala Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Lobsters Interview with steveklabnik (alexalejandre.com)
106 pts 21 comments by veqq Feb 20, 2026 interviewpersonvibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
reading the undocumented mems accelerometer on apple silicon macbooks via iokit hid (github.com)
8 pts 3 comments by indigo Feb 20, 2026 mac Apple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Lindenmayer Systems (justinpombrio.net)
47 pts 13 comments by justinpombrio Feb 20, 2026 artmath Science / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
LLMe (blog.fogus.me)
2 pts 0 comments by chris-evelyn Feb 19, 2026 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading