Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984

Richard Stallman quotes from the documentary
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
1985

more on Richard Stallman
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbifnOFfoJu8h2qS6WhgejyQ-23jvAkJ8


Go watch the…

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University, and has written extensively about the civil rights movement. Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret... READ MORE

Yanis Varoufakis discusses the rise of cloud capital, the mutation of free market capitalism, and the power of tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeffrey Bezos.

Is this the end of capitalism, and perhaps even democracy?

With a free trial, you can watch…

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you…

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Social media has been full of questions about what the unusual arrangement means for Groq employees.

David Kopec's blog.

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.

Manus reaches $100M ARR, becoming the fastest startup to hit this milestone. With $125M total revenue run-rate, 147T tokens processed, and 80M virtual computers created, Manus is redefining AI-human collaboration through its General AI Agent platform.

Join the Langfuse team to build the leading open-source LLM engineering platform

Opinion: Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool

Dr Dawn Wright was stunned to find the 'irrevocable' damage humans have done to the planet after deep sea discovery.