Articles by lordleft
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Child-free 'Disney adults' are transforming the company's theme parks (2023) (businessinsider.com)

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Claude Code for MBAs (Part 1) (essilfie.substack.com)

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Frege Plagiarized the Stoics (philarchive.org)

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When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Don't Call Me Francis (persuasion.community)

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Unix Signals? (stonybrook.edu)

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Problems in the Theory of Ideology, by Joseph Heath [pdf] (utoronto.ca)

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Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You? – Chris Wilson [video] (youtube.com)

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Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (nytimes.com)

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52 Things I Learned in 2025 (probablyinteresting.substack.com)

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We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything [video] (youtube.com)

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The 19 best Linux resources I know of, in 11 minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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Stoic Logic (stanford.edu)

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My Backyard Office Studio (568 sq/ft Full Tour) [video] (youtube.com)

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The World Is Wrong about Your Attention Span (manujoseph.substack.com)

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KOReader: Open-source e-reader App (koreader.rocks)

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A skeptic's guide to whether AI is conscious (figsinwintertime.substack.com)

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Pope John Paul II's Secret Cardinal (reddit.com)

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Two long-lost organ pieces by JavaScript Bach performed for first time (theguardian.com)

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Pope Leo calls for academic excellence in the church (usccb.org)

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Every Other VR Headset Is Obsolete Now – Steam Frame First Look [video] (youtube.com)

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Hallucinated Gods (theseedsofscience.pub)

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Welcome to bell.com, home of the famous Bell mark and logo (bell.com)

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We Built a Chinese Typewriter [video] (youtube.com)

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English Claims to the French Throne (wikipedia.org)

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CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB" [video] (youtube.com)

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Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM (llvm.org)

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The Lambda Calculus (2023) (stanford.edu)

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Microsoft invests $30B in UK to power AI future [video] (youtube.com)

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Hash Collision Probabilities (preshing.com)

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Not Sweden. Not France. New Mexico Just Passed the Most Radical Child Care Law (alisav.substack.com)

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George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton (1909) (gutenberg.org)

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The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" (understandlegacycode.com)

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The Golden Road by William Dalrymple review – when India ruled the world (theguardian.com)

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RestoHack – a full restoration of the original Hack (1984) (reddit.com)

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The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send (bbc.com)

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Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019) (bbc.com)

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Against Self-Optimization (plough.com)

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Delegation and Destruction: Francis Fukuyama on AI (persuasion.community)

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Networking for Systems Administrators (mwl.io)

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Your Job used to impress people. That era just ended (carmenvankerckhove.substack.com)

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KornShell 93u+m (github.com/ksh93)

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Setting up a public NetHack Server (svenbrauch.de)

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If You Absolutely Must - a brief guide to writing argumentative non-fiction (fredrikdeboer.com)

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Prescription vs. Description (christopherthomas.substack.com)

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Pope Leo XIV's PhD Dissertation (kathleenmccook.substack.com)

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The "Diet" Smartphone: Minimal Phone Review [video] (youtube.com)

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Augustine of Hippo (wikipedia.org)

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Solvitur Ambulando (wikipedia.org)

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What Sanskrit has meant to me (openthemagazine.com)

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Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)

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Task – an alternative to Make written in Go (taskfile.dev)

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Ask HN: Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters?

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The William Blake Archive (blakearchive.org)

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METS, the Middle English Texts Series (metseditions.org)

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Foundry Virtual Tabletop (foundryvtt.com)

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Microsoft Copilot Reunites Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella [video] (youtube.com)

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US Federal Government Spending by Agency [video] (youtube.com)

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Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (wikipedia.org)

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How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)

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Windows Longhorn Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer [video] (youtube.com)

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They say Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad by his side (reddit.com)

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The zeitgeist is changing. a romantic backlash to the tech era looms (theguardian.com)

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JetKVM: Promises Made, Promises Kept? [video] (youtube.com)

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The Symbolic Capitalists (musaalgharbi.substack.com)

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They Turned the Calculator App into a Roguelike [video] (youtube.com)

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Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology (hawaii.edu)

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English Class Teaches Students to Be Afraid of Literature (woman-of-letters.com)

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JWT Is a Bad Default (evertpot.com)

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Dementia in the Ancient Greco-Roman World Was Minimally Mentioned (nih.gov)

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Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use – AT&T Archives Film [video] (youtube.com)

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The Palmer Method of Business Writing – Drills and Worksheets (github.com/jtaby)

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A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy (oneletterwords.com)

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Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions (loc.gov)

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys (pepysdiary.com)

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What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment (theatlantic.com)

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Demystifying Spring Internals [video] (youtube.com)

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Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? (stephenfry.substack.com)

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Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022) (fb.com)

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Ask HN: Good Histories of the DotCom Bubble?

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Exploring JavaScript (ES2024 Edition) (exploringjs.com)

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Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012) (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read (elizabethandrama.org)

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For All X: An Introduction to Formal Logic (openlogicproject.org)

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Nova, a Mac Native Code Editor (nova.app)

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A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy (oneletterwords.com)

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What if two programs did this? (microsoft.com)

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Numbers Station (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What's the best obscure but useful CLI tool?

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What Docker containers can teach us about Buddhist and Hindu thought (christopherthomas.substack.com)

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The Chinese Room Thought Experiment (utm.edu)

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Don Knuth's favorite non-technical books (stanford.edu)

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Ask HN: Why has eInk technology stalled compared to other display tech?

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GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users (twitter.com/kchironis)

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BBC clip from 1985 about the developers of Zork and other text adventure games (youtube.com)

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Egui Demo (Rust WASM GUI Framework) (egui.rs)

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Are there logically possible alternative mathematical worlds? (reddit.com)

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Torturing Geniuses (thepointmag.com)

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The Medieval trial of a man impersonating his lookalike (moltensulfur.com)