Reading

Things I’m reading from around the web on AI, programming, philosophy, and strength sports.

AI

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments Simon Willison · 2026-03-21
Using Git with coding agents Simon Willison · 2026-03-21
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed Simon Willison · 2026-03-20
Quoting Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot Simon Willison · 2026-03-20
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty Simon Willison · 2026-03-19
After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment The Gradient · 2026-02-18
AGI Is Not Multimodal The Gradient · 2025-06-04
Why We Think Lilian Weng · 2025-05-01
Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Lilian Weng · 2024-11-28
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research The Gradient · 2024-11-16
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose The Gradient · 2024-09-09
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing The Gradient · 2024-08-03
Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs Lilian Weng · 2024-07-07
Diffusion Models for Video Generation Lilian Weng · 2024-04-12
Thinking about High-Quality Human Data Lilian Weng · 2024-02-05

Programming

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM Hacker News Best · 2026-03-21
Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control Hacker News Best · 2026-03-21
Tinybox – Offline AI device 120B parameters Hacker News Best · 2026-03-21
Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD Hacker News Best · 2026-03-21
Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights Hacker News Best · 2026-03-21
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages Julia Evans · 2026-03-10
Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials Eli Bendersky · 2026-02-28
Notes on Linear Algebra for Polynomials Eli Bendersky · 2026-02-25
Notes on clarifying man pages Julia Evans · 2026-02-18
Rewriting pycparser with the help of an LLM Eli Bendersky · 2026-02-04
Some notes on starting to use Django Julia Evans · 2026-01-27
Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly Eli Bendersky · 2026-01-17
A data model for Git (and other docs updates) Julia Evans · 2026-01-08
Summary of reading: October - December 2025 Eli Bendersky · 2025-12-31
Notes on switching to Helix from vim Julia Evans · 2025-10-10
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO Dan Luu · 2024-10-28
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words? Dan Luu · 2024-08-11
A discussion of discussions on AI bias Dan Luu · 2024-06-16
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation Dan Luu · 2024-05-26
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices Dan Luu · 2024-03-16

Philosophy

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are The Marginalian · 2026-03-22
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity The Marginalian · 2026-03-21
This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic The Marginalian · 2026-03-21
When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive The Marginalian · 2026-03-21
Bitch: a history Aeon · 2026-03-20
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain The Marginalian · 2026-03-20
Running against time Aeon · 2026-03-19
Geist in the machine Aeon · 2026-03-19
Izembek Aeon · 2026-03-18
Abandoning ourselves Aeon · 2026-03-17
How To Deal With Regret ( 3 Stoic Strategies to Live Free) Daily Stoic · 2023-08-23
What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy? Daily Stoic · 2023-07-31
Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going Daily Stoic · 2023-05-09
The 16 Greatest Lessons From 16 Years With Marcus Aurelius Daily Stoic · 2022-11-02
How To Find And Keep Joy Daily Stoic · 2022-08-08

Strength Sports

High volume vs high intensity: which builds more muscle? Stronger By Science · 2025-12-31
Is lifting during pregnancy healthy? Stronger By Science · 2025-12-24
How does sleep deprivation affect your workouts? Stronger By Science · 2025-12-17
Can a little alcohol be healthy for lifters? Stronger By Science · 2025-12-10
Is training on back-to-back days bad? Stronger By Science · 2025-12-03
Best Vegan Creatine (2026): Plant-Based Picks for Every Athlete BarBend · 2025-09-05
Fueling the Future Deadlift World Record: Hafthor Björnsson’s 8,000-Calorie Diet BarBend · 2025-09-04
2026 Olympia Qualification Points System Announced BarBend · 2025-09-04
Muscle Building: Whey Protein Continues to Perform Better Than Collagen BarBend · 2025-09-04
4x Men’s Physique Olympia Champion Jeremy Buendia’s New Commercial Gym Tour BarBend · 2025-09-04