popular bookmarks generated Sat Dec 13 06:50:35 2025 UTC ----------------------------------------- Size of Life [https://neal.fun/size-of-life/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {kalina} Patterns.dev - Modern Web App Design Patterns [https://www.patterns.dev/] Introducing "Learning Patterns": - a free 435+ page book on JavaScript + React design & performance patterns from @lydiahallie and I. On the web, ePub & PDF. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Useful patterns for building HTML tools [https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {tools html} Saloni's guide to data visualization [https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-guide-to-data-visualization] Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {dataviz charts} How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it [https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates] I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington] To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of ever-more-outlandish bubbles to stay alive; the fact that workers and the public they serve are on one side of this fight, and bosses and their investors are on the other side 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ArtificialIntelligence review critique author:CoryDoctorow Pluralistic 2025} Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog [https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Font recommendations | Butterick’s Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {fonts} Introducing GPT-5.2 | OpenAI [https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {GenAI OpenAI} Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight | karpathy [https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {HN LLM} Why AGI Will Not Happen [https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218537 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ai llm technology economics interesting} The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide [https://kottke.org/25/12/the-2025-kottke-holiday-gift-guide] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {gifts} Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore [https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of-fucks-the-neuroscience] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-mastermind-box-cover-what-the-hell-were-they-thinking] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {RobertRooney design review funny 2025 game art} In 2025, I thought a lot about the things I want to say to my boss [https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z CSS Wrapped 2025 [https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025/] Ready to see what we molded in 2025? The Chrome DevRel team will guide you through 17 CSS and UI features that landed on the Web Platform, fresh from the kiln 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {chrome web-platform 2025} I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's Memory System, and Here's What I Found! - Manthan [https://manthanguptaa.in/posts/chatgpt_memory/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {llm memory} Neal.fun [https://neal.fun/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {websites} Two is already too many - Works in Progress Magazine [https://worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is-already-too-many/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing - DB Pro Blog [https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {sqlite sql json} Why RSS matters [https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/] still continues to matter in 2025 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/841156/ai-companies-aaif-anthropic-mcp-model-context-protocol] via The Verge https://ift.tt/6WER4Ug 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant [https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify] "This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative" 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {brianmerchant 2025 music streaming spotify applemusic youtubemusic amazonmusic tidal pandora deezer qobuz peloton} If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? [https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {genai} Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration — Ankur Sethi's Internet Website [https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z My productivity app is a single .txt file [https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles [https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/] story 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {fiction llm writing} The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {archaeology fire human culture humanOrigins behavior} butterick’s practical typography [https://practicaltypography.com/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477231https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094946 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {typography webdesign tutorial reference} Perl's decline was cultural [https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {unix-philosophy perl-culture perl-philosophy wall} Nokia N900 Necromancy [https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {elec phone hardware} At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html] In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman, the order said, and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs. [https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/] You can think of the language network as a set of pointers,” Fedorenko said. “It’s like a map, and it tells you where in the brain you can find different kinds of meaning. It’s basically a glorified parser that helps us put the pieces together — and then all the thinking and interesting stuff happens outside of [its] boundaries.” Fedorenko has been gathering biological evidence of this language network for the past 15 years in her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unlike a large language model, the human language network doesn’t string words into plausible-sounding patterns with nobody home; instead, it acts as a translator between external perceptions (such as speech, writing and sign language) and representations of meaning encoded in other parts of the brain (including episodic memory and social cognition, which LLMs don’t possess). Nor is the human language network particularly large: If all of its tissue were clumped together, it would be about the size of a strawberry(opens a new tab). But when it is damaged, the effect is profound. An injured language network can result in forms of aphasia(opens a new tab) in which sophisticated cognition remains intact but trapped within a brain unable to express it or distinguish incoming words from others. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ai llm language thought brain} Resonant Computing Manifesto [https://resonantcomputing.org/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained [https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {lisp} OpenAI Is in Trouble - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/openai-losing-ai-wars/685201/] The AI startup is in trouble. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ai openai ChatGPT sam altman .teaching Google gemini} They Droned Back - Digital Digging with Henk van Ess [https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {germany russia drones} https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble [https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR [https://www.equator.org/articles/the-makers-of-modern-china] "For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution"..."Introduction by Kaiser KuoI first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiong’s writing in Iron Moon, a collection of Chinese worker poetry skilfully translated by Eleanor Goodman (2016). What struck me then about her poetry, and what remains true in this prose selection, is Zheng’s attentiveness to the texture of migrant-worker life. She restores dignity not through political theatrics, but through rigorous sensory detail: the clang of metal, the sting of dust, the smell of dirty socks, the fluorescent fatigue of factory nights, and cramped dormitories where shirtless men play cards and chainsmoke. She records the world as it is felt by the people who move through it. In doing so, she opens a space in which they can be seen as individuals – complicated, vulnerable and never reduced to symbols.These subjects are caught in a trap that has structured millions of lives over the past four decades. On one side lies the village: impoverished, agrarian and socially stifling. On the other lies the city: dazzling and modern, but also cold, precarious and brutally indifferent. Zheng’s writing captures the psychic tension of that in-between space – the feeling of being suspended between two worlds, belonging fully to neither. She resists both the standard, agency-stripping sweatshop narrative and the counternarrative of migrant labour as liberation from rural drudgery.Patterns emerge across provinces and generations: young people whose schooling stopped because families could not afford the fees; ethnic minority children from remote mountainous communities labouring in the industrial south; women leaving home to escape constricting expectations, only to encounter new forms of gendered exploitation; men watching years slip by under the grind of overtime. But these patterns never feel generic. Zheng approaches each person individually, letting their memories and private cosmologies make themselves known.Zheng can do this because she has lived this life. For more than a decade, she was based in an “urban village” outside Guangzhou – one of many such dense enclaves where migrant workers negotiate despair. She worked factory jobs, sleeping in those same dormitories. Between 2006 and 2015, she interviewed people in alleyways, restaurants and rented rooms, assembling a kind of oral history of the great migration to Guangdong. The resulting manuscript, Woman Worker, edged close to citizen journalism – a perilous vocation in contemporary China. Much of the text was considered too sensitive domestically, and Zheng has refused to accept the extensive redactions that some would-be publishers have demanded. So the book has never been published.These narratives offer a window into Zheng’s life and work. The experiences they chronicle are often harsh – stories of exploitation and violence in the shadows of China’s industrial rise. But Zheng never frames her subjects solely through suffering. She captures flashes of solidarity, humour and stubbornness. Her sensitivity is humanising, holding both the structural and the intimate in view: the vast demographic movement of internal migration, and the individual lives that give it moral weight. She is a participant and an observer, a sympathetic advocate – but not an activist.Goodman has continued to translate her work for publication, including a collection of poems, In the Roar of the Machine, and the chapters of Woman Worker that appear here for the first time. Her translations preserve the steadiness of Zheng’s gaze. These are the stories of people who built modern China, but were rarely invited into its narrative. Zheng listens to them. And because she does, they enter the record not as anonymous labourers, but as full human beings." 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {zhengxiaoqiong china manufacturing 2025 labor work kaiserkuo eleanorgoodman} Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] [https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes] Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - love the URL 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI [https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {mistral code cli} Daring Fireball: The Real Problem of Humanity [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/the-real-problem-of-humanity] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {quotes computers psychology democracy government community history internet} Gemini 3 hallucinates the Hacker News front page in 2035 [https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {XDN Tech} The White House Just Revealed Another "Update" To The White House, And Everyone’s Rolling Their Eyes [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-just-revealed-another-210003798.html] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z “We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For” - Essays - Yield Giving [https://yieldgiving.com/essays/we-are-the-ones-we-ve-been-waiting-for/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {volunteer} Building a High-End AI Desktop | David Noel Ng [https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/hopper/] ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {hpc compute computedense selfhosted gpu barnfind} Smartphone without a battery [https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {elec phone} Gin is a very bad software library [https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {Development golang rant} Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214693] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {compiler learning wasm} Trump’s immigration data dragnet [https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ft usa society} Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/meta-ai-tbd-lab-friction.html] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools [https://larr.net/p/namings.html]
In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman’s talk on the EmacsConf, it was titled “What I’d like to see in Emacs”. One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was “memorable names”, “I think every package that you […] should have a name that helps you remember what job it does. […] We’ve had a tendency to give packages names for the sake of pure wordplay or lack of obvious meaning”.
This is completely true but also insane from Stallman, who never found a recursive acronym he didn't like and insists on pronouncing the dollars in Micro$oft or whatever. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {software richard-stallman} What Setting Should I Use? [https://www.massicotte.org/blog/what-settings/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {swift Xcode} ltratt/pizauth: Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon [https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {sn dw simulation physics-engines astrodynamics} simticket [https://www.elpwc.com/simticket?com=1&ticket=1] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z nytimes.com [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.NI-S.Il8KdkMKKnGV] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z How the Brain Parses Language | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191597] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {keel mõtlemine hennoste .oy_keel} GitHub - metaspartan/gotui: Golang terminal dashboard library, advanced modern fork of termui, GOTUI? [https://github.com/metaspartan/gotui] ff6347 starred metaspartan/gotui 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {github stars} Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water | WIRED [https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {chronic_illness environment research usa 2025} The end of the kernel Rust experiment [LWN.net] [https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/] The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust-for-Linux team. 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {lup} The one thing necessary: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e [https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/]
I had a few free hours recently and decided to have a go at a long-simmering idea: To improve how I manage multiple email accounts. As someone who struggles mightily to cope with distractions (I have the attention span of a gnat), I was hoping to consolidate several separate interfaces into one, simpler, less distracting, more focused client.Sadly, I wasn't quite successful -- my work emails remain out of reach. But I learned a lot and ended up in at least a better place.Learn about design patterns for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud by walking through examples based on Microsoft Azure.
2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {azure systemdesign architecture Interview interview_practice} OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {llm skills} Bag of words, have mercy on us - by Adam Mastroianni [https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {ai llm psychology} Litestream VFS | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710] 2025-12-13T05:47:01Z {sqlite fly.io}