Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

quantamagazine.org

C++26: Reducing undefined behaviour

Nowadays, safety is in the focus of C++. Whether it’s at committee meetings, conference talks, or hallway discussions, the topic keeps coming up. C++26 made some big steps forward in this area, and on...

sandordargo.com

How to read more books | scotto.me

My method for reading more

scotto.me

Chandler Carruth (@chandlerc@hachyderm.io)

We have a recording available of this **early** preview now!! Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tQlzpnbWZfn2WtTFMoJgF93QteByBBwm/view?usp=sharing Slides: https://chandlerc.blog/slides/2026-me...

hachyderm.io

Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto

Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.

alexalejandre.com

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust

bun.com

Tris Sherliker

IP, technology & commercial law

tris.sherliker.net

Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains

Scientists say modern buildings, LED lighting, and repetitive patterns may overload the brain's visual processing system, causing headaches, nausea, and physical distress for millions.

studyfinds.com

Odin 1.0 Announcement

YouTube video by gingerBill

youtu.be

BEAUTY TREATMENT

Despite the intellectual and ideological chasm separating the viral aestheticians of the trad right and the artists exhibiting in TriBeCa and Kreuzberg, contemporary art is in the midst of its own ecl...

artforum.com

In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the…

lithub.com

The Impossible Story of Communism

How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction?

thenation.com

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

newrepublic.com

“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study

Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by rev...

publicdomainreview.org

The Promise of Duolingo — The Dial

The language-learning app won’t make you fluent, but maybe that’s not the point.

thedial.world

Mir Books

Books from the Soviet Era

mirtitles.org

The Old Computer Challenge

History of the Old Computer Challenge

occ.sdf.org

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.

thereallo.dev

Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore Story

One man more than any other is associated with Singapore’s remarkable 20th-century success. Who was Lee Kuan Yew, and how did he do it?

historytoday.com

Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity

How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished

therepublicofletters.substack.com

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

mcsweeneys.net

ICFP Programming Contest 2026

The 29th ICFP Programming Contest runs July 24–27, 2026. An online programming competition for teams of any size, anywhere.

icfpcontest2026.com

Why China got rich and India didn't

The human roots of the Sino-Indian divergence

davidoks.blog

Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993

A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.

staniks.github.io

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyon...

codingwithjesse.com

Doing nothing at work

seangoedecke.com

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Coding agents as normal technology

normaltech.ai

If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort | Tom Bedor's Blog

An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the ou...

tombedor.dev