Things I might read in 2024.
- Will Larson - the starred posts on https://lethain.com/
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Stefan Baumgartner - TypeScript Cookbook: Real World Type-Level Programming -
Markus Triska - The Power of Prolog(via) - Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, Jason Hemann - The Reasoned Schemer
- Peter Flach - Simply Logical
- Scryer Prolog
- Jamie Brandon - Reflections of a decade of coding
- Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano - Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
- John Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
- Nikolay Samokhvalov - Common DB schema change mistakes
- Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger - Refactoring UI
- the SvelteKit documentation
- eevee - Old CSS, new CSS
- The Effection v3 documentation
- CSS for JavaScript Developers/ just the things I don't know and which would be used frequently
- Vicki Boykis - What are embeddings?
- Frank M. Shipman III and Catherine C. Marshall - Formality Considered Harmful/ printed
- Ergest Xheblati - Minimum Viable SQL Patterns
- Beyond entities and relationships – towards an emergent approach to data modelling (via)
- William Kent's documents on bkent.net
- https://hirrolot.github.io/
- Olia Lialina - Turing Complete User: Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction
- Jakob Nielsen - The Anti-Mac Interface
- Douglas C. Engelbart - A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect/ printed
- Gregory Afinogenov - Andrei Ershov and the Soviet Information Age(via)/ printed
- James Betker - Non_Interactive
- John Derbyshire - Prime Obsession
- Paul Bourke - Fractals, Chaos, Self-Similarity
- this partial and unauthorized translation of Alexandre Grothendieck's R´ecoltes et Semailles (via)
- Ernest Newman, James Roy - Gödel's Proof, revised edition/ printed (via)
- Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz - Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy
- Derek Smith's chapter From the Outside In: Solving Generalizations of the Slothouber-Graatsma-Conway Puzzle (chapter 9) in The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math/ after I solve blocks-in-a-box and Shipper's Dilemma / printed
- Visualizing Algorithms
- Steven H. Strogatz - Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (translator) - The Little Prince
- Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator) - Convenience Store Woman (via)
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Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (in Labyrinths)/ printed(via) - Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (via)
- William Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker/ audio, go to 12m35s to skip past the introduction spoilers
- W. Edwards Demming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ audio
- W. Edwards Demming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ the PDF or ebook
- Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland/ including the posts I SingleFile'd
- the relevant-looking posts on benkuhn.net/posts
- Commoncog Case Library Beta
- Keith J. Cunningham - The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board/ audio
- Cedric Chin's summary of 7 Powers
- Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura - Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
- Joël Glenn Brenner - The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
- Nomad Investment Partnership Letters or redacted (via)
- How to Lose Money in Derivatives: Examples From Hedge Funds and Bank Trading Departments
- Brian Hayes - Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
- Bob Caspe - Entrepreneurial Action/ printed, skim for anything I don't know
- Accelerated Expertise (via)/ printed, "read Chapters 9-13 and skim everything else"
- David J. Gerber - The Inventor's Dilemma (via Oxide and Friends)
- Alex Komoroske - The Compendium / after I convert the Firebase export in
code/websites/compendium-cards-data/db.jsonto a single HTML page -
Rich Cohen - The Fish That Ate The Whale(via)
- Kieran Healy - Fuck Nuance
- W. Brian Arthur - The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves/ audio (via)
- A. C. Graham (translator) - Chuang-Tzu: The Inner Chapters (via)
- Robert Root-Bernstein - Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge
- A short conceptual explainer of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
- Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
- J. P. V. D. Balsdon - Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome
- Joyce Benenson - Warriors and Worriers/ audio (via)
- Mark Forsyth - The Elements of Eloquence
- Stanley Fish - How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
- Richard Hamming - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio - Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
- James C. Scott - Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States/ audio (via)
- Jamie Stantonian - Apocalyptic Cults and the Early-Modern Information Explosion
- P. W. Anderson - More Is Different (via)
- Robert Kegan - The Evolving Self/ printed
- Grabbing the Tiger by the Tail: Conversation with Robert Kegan/ printed
- Thomas Swan & Suzie Benack - Narcissism in the Epistemological Pit/ printed
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Kaufmann translation)/ PDF on phone
- François de La Rochefoucauld, translators - Collected Maxims and Other Reflections/ Oxford World’s Classics parallel French text, just the fifth edition maxims, pg. 3-139
- William James - The Principles Of Psychology, Volume I, Chapter XI: Attention/ printed
- Manussos Marangudakis - The Social Sources and Environmental Consequences of Axial Thinking: Mesopotamia, China, and Greece in Comparative Perspective/ printed
- Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity/ printed
- C. Thi Nguyen - Games: Agency as Art
- Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings (again)
- David Chapman - The Vetali's Gift
- David Chapman - Approaching Aro/ saved locally
- Brad Warner - Zen Wrapped in Karma and Dipped in Chocolate (again via)
- Jim Leff's posts tagged spirituality
- Hokai Diego Sobol - Twitter 2014-2020
- Rob Burbea - Seeing That Frees
- Derek Parfit - Reasons and Persons/ Chapters 1 and 2
Lectures/videos
- Bing Wen Brunton - Introduction to Neuroscience
- Keith J. Cunningham - The 4-Day MBA
- Jeroen Vleggaar - Huygens Optics
Interactive fiction
- Brian Moriarty - Trinity
unplanned notable things read
- Jeff Wise - Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare
- Wikipedia - Thirty-Six Stratagems
- Romeo Stevens - The past 18 months have seen what subjectively feels like more progress than the previous 8 years combined...
- Joe Carlsmith - Gentleness and the artificial Other
- Bevy ECS
- Tyler Cloutier - Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
- Sander Mertens - Why it is time to start thinking of games as databases
- Will Larson - Work on what matters.
- Cate Hall - How to be More Agentic
- Kyle Chayka - Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
- Jerry Talton - When Your Company Tries to Cancel You
- Ben Kuhn - To listen well, get curious
- Harry Glaser - What I learned selling my company
- Brian Lui - the investing soul
- iter.ca - Forging signed commits on GitHub
- iter.ca - Everything the Rust format! macro can do
- Batja Mesquita - Americans Are Fake and the Dutch Are Rude!
- Andy Baio - The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams
- Raymond Chen - The apocryphal history of file system tunnelling
- Logan Smith - Rust Functions Are Weird (But Be Glad)
- Jayarava - Critiquing Buddhist Karma
- Jason Crawford - Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model
- Glyph - Unsigned Commits
- Paul Ford - The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
- Andrew S. Grove - Only the Paranoid Survive/ audio (and summary)
- Jen Simmons - Interop 2024
- Wikipedia - Category:English suffixes
- Erik Hoel - Baldwin in Brahman
- Lucy Keer - Variable names as handles or sigils
- Benny Carts - How My Psychosis Caused a Serious Gambling Addiction (archive, cache)
- William E. Byrd - What are the main technical differences between Prolog and miniKanren, with respect to logic programming?
- Boris Zentner - How to NOT get screwed as a DBA (DBRE)
- Wikipedia - Mental health of Jesus
- Wikipedia - Criterion of embarrassment
- Keith Cunningham - Keys to the Vault: Lessons From the Pros on Raising Money and Igniting Your Business/ audio (the 1997 tapes) (via James Shrewsbury)
- Damian Czapiewski - TypeScript Bivariance Hack
- Scott Chacon - So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024
- Ben James - Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon.
- [elided]
- Zev Samuel - The Con Artist, and How to Avoid Them
- TypeScript Handbook - TypeScript for Functional Programmers
- Roland Crosby - Things Unexpectedly Named After People
- Wikipedia - W. Edwards Deming
- Ezra Klein - Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
- Julia Evans - Popular git config options
- eevee - Thumbnail grid examples
- Jon Sneyers - JXL Art Gallery
- Jason Santa Maria - Smart Quotes for Smart People
- Steve Hare - Years ago, I had the unfortunate task of trying to teach a math class that simply could not stop talking...
- Julien Voisin - YouTube video embedding harm reduction (via)
- Oliver Milan - Humpback sex photographed for first time
- Ian Urbina - Inside North Korea's Forced-Labor Program
- Antonios A. Chariton - Deploying Fiber In The Home
- Wikipedia - Shadow stack
- Vin01 - You can not simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
- VMware - Automatically connecting USB devices at virtual machine power on
- Michael Stapelberg - systemd: enable indefinite service restarts
- Simon Andrews - I figured out how DMARC works
- Henrik Karlsson, Johanna Wiberg - On limitations that hide in your blindspot
- Instagram Engineering - Sharding & IDs at Instagram
- Wikipedia - Weather Rock
- Andres Freund - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
- Wikipedia - XZ Utils
- 0xNF - § Laws of Insider Trading
- Everyone is John (via)
- Gavin Schmidt - Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (via)
- Meghan Rosen - Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain (via)
- Yuval Abraham - ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
- Sandee LaMotte - ‘It’s like staring at demons’
- Matt Klein - Why is observability so expensive? (via)
- Zoë Schlanger - Maine Is a Warning for America’s PFAS Future
- DrEricLevi - The darker side of being a doctor (via)
- Hana Schank - I Know the Secret to the Quiet Mind. I Wish I’d Never Learned It.
- Adam Mastroianni - Startling differences between humans and jukeboxes
- Min Jeong Lee, Hiroyuki Sekine, Toshiro Hasegawa - A Dying Man's Lost Recipe Made His Daughter A Multimillionaire
- Ask HN: Does Anyone Use a "Closed Core" Software Model?
- Viola Zhou - TSMC’s debacle in the American desert
- FTC - FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
- second_to_fun - Speculation on the W80 warhead
- Naomi Hartono - NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
- derek guy - I disagree that you dress like Cary Grant.
- [elided]
- Anton Shilov - TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
- Katie Dowd - The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City
- LogLog Games - Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
- Keygen LLC - Your 14-Day Free Trial Ain't Gonna Cut It
- HTeuMeuLeu - Email Client Support Scoreboard (via)
- Jeremy Stretch - Understanding TCP Sequence and Acknowledgment Numbers
- Efim Mirochnik - How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount
- Tima Kinsart - Datatype99: algebraic data types for C99
- Tima Kinsart - Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
- Sophia J. Turner - The search for easier safe systems programming
- Lauren F. Friedman - The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
- Jessica Wildfire - How Good, Kind, Caring People Became The Bad Guys
- Wikipedia - Rough and tumble fighting
- David Chapman - Making meta-rationality available
- Nat Alison - The Labyrinth of Polyominoes
- Michael Haederle - UNM Researchers Find Microplastics in Canine and Human Testicular Tissue
- David Chapman - Hope
- Thomas Rinsma - CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
- weird-exprs.rs
- Will Wilson, Colin Percival - The worst bug we faced at Antithesis
- Inti De Ceukelaire - When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains
- Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h (via)
- Anne Trafton - To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
- jviide - Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
- Jyoti Mann - Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- Rachel Berkowitz - New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice
- Mike King - Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
- dmishin - Cellular Ashes
- Matt Bessey - Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL (via)
- Ashwin Poojary, Jun Wang - How Twitter uses rasdaemon for hardware reliability
- Gabriel Charette, Olivier Li Shing Tat-Dupuis, Carlos Caballero Grolimund, François Doray - Introducing Shared Memory Versioning to improve slow interactions
- David Chapman - Steam engine, startup, podcast, leaf devil
- David Chapman, Charlie Awbery - Learning Kindness Skills
- David A. Dalrymple - All Boolean functions are polynomials
- David A. Dalrymple - How I Think About Math, Lecture 1: Relations (the slides)
- Mark Seemann - You'll regret using natural keys
- Jos Bergervoet - How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?
- Simbabbad - Antichamber (Steam) Alexander Bruce
- Mark J. Nelson - Why did Prolog lose steam?
- bbot - adventures in aerospace
- Bob Berwyn - Extreme climate impacts from collapse of [the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)] could be worse than expected, a new study warns
- Martin C. Martin - How I Found A 55 Year Old Bug In The First Lunar Lander Game
- Tommy Gonzales - You've read your last free article, such is the nature of mortality
- Kent Beck - Mastering Programming
- Global Cooling Forecasts from Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (via)
- Karissa Bell - How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
- ch00f - The time I spent three months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixed it in 1 line of code
- ssbr - Rust has three reference types!
- Hillel Wayne - Software Friction
- Maya Posch - China's nuclear-powered containership
- James Steinberg - I am using AI to automatically drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
- James Steinberg - Dare to Fail Gloriously
- Wikipedia - Enfant terrible (folklore)
- The Node.js Project - Node.js 22 is now available
- Wikipedia - Xanthan gum
- Sasha Chapin - How my day is going
- Ross Douthat - The Dramatic Dangers of a Second Biden Administration
- Alexey Guzey - I'm terrified of old people
- Nadia Asparouhova - What is meditation for?
- Anton Troynikov - Telescoping Ambition
- Dave Philipps - Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide
- Jose Antonio Lanz - New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google
- Amy Adams - What ‘The Master’ Actually Means
- Adam Wiggins - Muse retrospective
- How to surrender: step-by-step instructions for Russians and forcibly mobilized Ukrainians
- Mark Dominus - My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
- Binary secret scanning helped us prevent (what might have been) the worst supply chain attack you can imagine
- sunset glow - Exposition of Frontend Build Systems (via)
- Lauren Smiley - Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
- Mark Perlmutter, Feroze Sidhwa - We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
unplanned and abandoned
- Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga - The Courage to Be Disliked/ audio
- Matt Dinniman - Dungeon Crawler Carl/ audio
- Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible/ audio
- Geoff Smart - Who: The A Method for Hiring/ audio
- Genki Kawamura - If Cats Disappeared from the World/ audio
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