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    Things I might read in 2024.

 Will Larson - the starred posts on https://lethain.com/
 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)
 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.json to 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}