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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
A Rust developer's first real Zig project: how the language feels for systems work—manual memory, comptime, error handling, and where it differs from Rust's ownership model and tooling.
11 min · 2,535 words
A playful but carefully argued encoding proposal that extends UTF-8 to arbitrary length while preserving ASCII compatibility and self-synchronization, with a reference pipx implementation.
89 min · 20,405 words
The Shadows Lurking in the Equations
FuzzyGraph visualizes equation error topography, not just exact zeros—revealing black holes, shadow lines, and near-solution underwater islands invisible to conventional binary graphing of algebraic curves.
5 min · 1,136 words
Advice for Tech Non-ProfitsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Advice for technical nonprofits from a donor's perspective. Mitchell Hashimoto discusses making the donation process understandable and reducing the practical friction that can prevent willing supporters from contributing.
1 min · 75 wordsagent-written
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Ink & Switch’s essay on malleable software: why today’s locked-down apps strip user agency, and what it would take to restore tools people can reshape themselves.
34 min · 7,761 words
Jens Egholm Pedersen argues modern science is synonymous with open-source software: why reproducible code matters as much as papers, and what researchers should do next.
7 min · 1,517 words
How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers Hacker News ranking: the gravity formula, controversy penalties after ~40 comments, title/domain penalties (including historical NSA demotion), and how ~20% of front-page stories are tweaked.
15 min · 3,547 words