This week: Archaic Virus is making a bafflingly stable dungeon generation system.

New blog post: "Explorable explorable explanations" Building on Bret Victor's concept of "explorable explanations" for scientific publishing. blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/1... 🧪 #MetaSci

The latest in my occasional series of over-complicated literary interpretations, this time on what connects Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) and Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke) Warning: spoilers interconnected.org/home/2025/11...

Landscape mode is hard-linebreak mode. Portrait mode is soft-linebreak mode.

This week: the folks at Fox2d have ported basically all of Scratch to LÖVE! Just in case you have some Scratch games lying around. github.com/fox2d-engine...

This game won FIRST PLACE at Ludum Dare! And it's made in LÖVE! I'm freaking out over here! Aaaaaaah!

Because I could not help myself, me and @steveheist2.bsky.social estimated that this is roughly $270,000 in monitors … and $600,000 in monitor arms. bsky.app/profile/erni...

The Crowd (1928) features this office hellscape sequence and all I can think is "look at how much more space they had!"

Big’s Backyard Ultra individual world championship has begun — the runners are 12 hours in and the race won’t complete for at least another 4 days/400+ miles Here’s why you should be watching interconnected.org/home/2023/10...

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Some of La Mexicaine De Perforation were friends when I lived in Paris in the years just before this happened. You can read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX

Some notes by @akkartik.name (2025) akkartik.name/post/2025-06...

I'm teaching 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺(𝘀)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too. In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos! 🎞️ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 👉 More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...

in particular, most baggage requires baggage polymorphism and baggage subtyping to be practically useful, and those are two concepts that always seem to confuse everyone. certainly that's what everyone complains about re: lifetimes in rust

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In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

[new draft post] Too much murder https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/17/too-much-murder/index.html

also reminds me of something @akkartik.name said about "vestiges" and "regressions" although those aren't exactly the same thing: • vestige: something that was necessary that is no longer necessary (contrast chesterton's fence) • regression: something that used to work that no longer does

I like this: arxiv.org/pdf/2211.13619

Third place winner in our Ghosts in Machines contest, by Zach Hyman protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/loyalty

"Anybody claiming to be able to upload you, *now*, is a con artist. Do not, under any circumstances, get inside their machine."

Rejoice! Observable 2.0, file based notebook programming observablehq.com/notebook-kit/ is released Does that make Lopecode entirely pointless? What are the differences? github.com/tomlarkworth...

🌼🌁 San Francisco Saturday, August 2, 1–3pm Golden Gate Park: Robin Williams Meadow Organized by Alex Wennerberg More info: alexwennerberg.com/energy.html

Sometimes I play with the idea of starting a company which makes really nice electronics that feels as little “tech” as possible. Ie where the user only have to interface with “tech” when absolutely necessary.

@jackrusher.com @tomlauerman.bsky.social Nice juxtaposition: bsky.app/profile/motd... bsky.app/profile/toml...

"The problem is that, after supporting us on the way up, Canada coddles us once we’ve become rich." macleans.ca/politics/tax... @avibryant.com

Has anyone come up with a negative meme name for the “big beautiful bill” that has caught on? I haven’t heard one. Seems like basic gamesmanship failure.

The photon debugging view is working pretty well now. I can navigate the scene to look at the paths, bounces and final photon positions - along with a preview of their impact on the scene. #metalrt #rendering

Archive of archives. worrydream.com/Links2025/

if aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes, is someone that has that phobia an aibohphobe or an ebohphobe

The best answer to worse is better: "the smart money isn't on building the best product - it's on being the default option when the underlying tech finally works." from: textql.notion.site/levered-beta... via: benn.substack.com/p/meme-company

A great time capsule of the "future of programming" space from one decade ago. Lots of familiar usernames, lots of projects that are still running to this day. Also fun to think about all the things that happened shortly after this thread. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1092...

This week: YouDoYouBuddy is making a successor to their game Lead Haul, gosh look at those elevator animations. Check out the original Lead Haul too, also made in LÖVE! youdoyoubuddy.itch.io/lead-haul

I find this one quite mesmerising, and it's not horrible on my eyes.

I found a cool pattern to evolve but it's weird on my eyes. It's not rapid flashing, but leaves an after-image. Not sure if it's the stripes or the faint jiggling or something else.

Furiously rubbing on a little stump of wood. #wtc

BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc. live-workshop.github.io/primer/

“Start everyone early, and offer those who are passionate about the subject limitless room to grow.” https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/

Last night, I gave a talk about AI, programming, & vibe coding www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WC8...

@akkartik.name This is so cool! akkartik.name/freewheeling...

It turns out that people are very interested in funding browsers as infrastructure — the room was packed and the discussion had to be cut off after 90min!

vals have multiple files! and folders! you can clone them locally! and use cursor! or vim! or townie! which itself is a val! which means it can edit itself! code search & our blog are also now vals! everything's a val! you get a val! you get a val! everyone gets a val!

Do you want to write your own implementation of Tiny Boxer? Check out my demo from PLISS'25 & follow the step-by-step tutorial here: github.com/tpetricek/ti...

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research. bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

Literate programming with a little bit of spatiality

Here are my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... The Context Wars. Context portability. The carcinization of free consumer applications. Carving out private contexts. Dream scrolling. Adaptive efficiency. Entropy-fighting swarms. The tragedy of aggregation. Invisible upgrade networks.

@eudoxia.bsky.social borretti.me/article/you-... is working as designed! Rationality and obsession interlock in fractal ways. Both in people on HN and in the mainstream. It's all fine. People doing what makes them happy, evangelizing, standing aloof, all lives laboring in obscurity on a dead end.