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Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading

Literate Agents (gvrooyen.substack.com)
2 pts 0 comments by rvt Jan 27, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
But how to get to that European cloud? (berthub.eu)
105 pts 33 comments by tudorr Jan 27, 2026 lawphilosophy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
For the love of Troff (2020) (schemamania.org)
15 pts 2 comments by mccd Jan 27, 2026 osdevpdfphilosophy Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
sra-archive: Very simple random access archive format (github.com)
2 pts 2 comments by Cloudef Jan 27, 2026 showzig Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
ChronDB: Transforming a Clojure Database into a Polyglot Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
1 pts 1 comments by Yogthos Jan 26, 2026 clojuredatabases Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Ethical source is hot garbage (2021) (blog.giovanh.com)
7 pts 5 comments by lr0 Jan 26, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Why there’s no European Google? (ploum.net)
147 pts 99 comments by ploum Jan 26, 2026 philosophy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale (maggieappleton.com)
4 pts 1 comments by Corbin Jan 25, 2026 historicalreversingvibecoding AI / Machine LearningSystems / Low-Level / OSDesign / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Frozen Insight in a Moving World (jdu.github.io)
3 pts 0 comments by objectif_lune Jan 25, 2026 aiculture AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship (hughrundle.net)
9 pts 1 comments by muemo Jan 25, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The IndieWeb and Small web (christiano.dev)
28 pts 11 comments by christiano Jan 25, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
3 pts 0 comments by calvin Jan 23, 2026 hardwarehistoricalreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015) (cs.ucdavis.edu)
11 pts 2 comments by tudorr Jan 23, 2026 cryptographyhistoricalpdfphilosophyprivacy Security / PrivacyCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder (yarnspinner.dev)
38 pts 2 comments by parisba Jan 22, 2026 games Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Documentary about Open Source in Ukraine and around the world (youtube.com)
3 pts 1 comments by chadwhitacre Jan 21, 2026 culturevideo Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Art of Craftsmanship (Monozukuri) in the Age of AI (rapha.land)
14 pts 2 comments by raphamorim Jan 21, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Some Thoughts on the Open Web (mnot.net)
4 pts 1 comments by tomhukins Jan 21, 2026 cultureweb Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting (hackernoon.com)
8 pts 1 comments by fanf Jan 20, 2026 scaling Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingInternet / Digital Culture
Rust's standard library on the GPU (vectorware.com)
45 pts 0 comments by beef Jan 20, 2026 graphicsrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Venus v5 released: Modern OO standard library (and more) for Perl 5 (reddit.com)
6 pts 3 comments by iamalnewkirk Jan 20, 2026 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The problem is culture (deadsimpletech.com)
29 pts 16 comments by lproven Jan 20, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The lost art of XML (marcosmagueta.com)
38 pts 48 comments by schonfinkel Jan 20, 2026 programmingrant Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
XPER on the Commodore 64 (stonetools.ghost.io)
4 pts 0 comments by calvin Jan 20, 2026 aihistoricalprogramming AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com)
19 pts 3 comments by abareplace Jan 19, 2026 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)
28 pts 9 comments by rbr Jan 18, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
air traffic control: the IBM 9020 (computer.rip)
17 pts 2 comments by binjip978 Jan 18, 2026 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it? (tldraw.dev)
22 pts 3 comments by typesanitizer Jan 17, 2026 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
How Many Pixels Do You Really Need? (rldane.space)
41 pts 36 comments by ploum Jan 17, 2026 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (alilleybrinker.com)
71 pts 16 comments by isuffix Jan 17, 2026 rust Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
LLM problems observed in humans (embd.cc)
5 pts 0 comments by lr0 Jan 16, 2026 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading