1
1
Sent from my iPad – Steve Jobs (2010) (stevejobsarchive.com)
1
Language Transfer – Free audio language courses utilizing the "Thinking Method" (languagetransfer.org)
2
Z3 Internals (Draft) (z3prover.github.io)
2
2025 Word of the Year: Slop (simonwillison.net)
51
MIT Missing Semester 2026 (csail.mit.edu)
1
Just – a handy way to save and run project-specific commands (github.com/casey)
3
Modern SID chip substitutes [video] (youtube.com)
1
Measuring Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Dev Productivity (arxiv.org)
2
The Normalization of Deviance in AI (embracethered.com)
1
Explaining weird stuff via Python's compilation pipeline – UMich guest lecture [video] (youtube.com)
3
How Do People Catch Baseballs? (2021) (wired.com)
2
Making Software: Blending modes (twitter.com/danhollick)
1
Martin Hairer: Do Mathematicians Need Computers? [video] (youtube.com)
1
Tricki – a repository of mathematical know-how (2020) (tricki.org)
1
Mathematical "Urban Legends" (2011) (mathoverflow.net)
2
Give me AI slop over human sludge any day (world.hey.com)
1
The Traveling Salesperson Problem (Modernized) (github.com/norvig)
2
Web Performance Advent Calendar 2025 – 17th edition (perfplanet.com)
10
Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig (github.com/norvig)
1
The economics of Pantone and its colours (finshots.in)
3
LatentMAS – agent collaboration from token space into the model's latent space (arxiv.org)
1
Game of Life in reverse with SAT solvers – Thinking in 3721 dimensions (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
110
Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 (xania.org)
1
ChatGPT's Third Birthday (simonwillison.net)
2
EWD 1094 – The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991) (utexas.edu)
280
Advent of Code 2025 (adventofcode.com)
1
Dennis Sullivan: Simplicity Is the Point (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
1
Boeing, Going, Gone: The Forgotten Air India Plane (indiatimes.com)
1
The Thinking Game – Full Documentary (Google DeepMind) (youtu.be)
1
Stanford CS230 – Autumn 2025 – Lecture 7: Agents, Prompts, and RAG [video] (youtube.com)
3
DeepSeek-AI/DeepSeek-Math-V2 (huggingface.co)
2
Advent of Code 2025 is nigh – Dec 1-12 (adventofcode.com)
3
The Rust Programming Language – What Is Ownership? (rust-lang.org)
2
Computer Science and Game Theory: A Conversation – Timothy Roughgarden [video] (youtube.com)
1
What Is a Shader? (makingsoftware.com)
1
How Google autocomplete works in Search (2018) (blog.google)
2
Google Antigravity (simonwillison.net)
3
How Do CPUs Work? The Engineering That Runs the Digital World [video] (youtube.com)
1
Using Assisted-by commit footers instead of banning AI tools (xeiaso.net)
1
Everybody Codes – Quest 8, 2025 – String art problem (everybody.codes)
5
Jsonrepair: Repair Invalid JSON Documents (github.com/josdejong)
2
I Failed, Failed, and Succeeded at Learning How to Code (2011) (theatlantic.com)
1
Interview with VP of Dying' Company [Corporate Edition] [video] (youtube.com)
1
Integer Set Library (ISL) – A Primer (jeremykun.com)
1
Everybody Codes 2025 – Puzzles Like Advent of Code (everybody.codes)
31
The write last, read first rule (tigerbeetle.com)
1
Beyond Standard LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
116
[flagged] Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface (github.com/aristocratos)
2
Visualizing Intersecting Sets (upset.app)
1
Goldman Sachs Announces Managing Director Class of 2025 (goldmansachs.com)
1
Marden's Theorem (wikipedia.org)
1
Fuzzy Graphing (gods.art)
1
GS Quant – Python toolkit for quantitative finance (github.com/goldmansachs)
1
The Secret World of Data Structures and Algorithms (pncnmnp.github.io)
2
Reservoir Research – Water flow simulation (2017) (adventofcode.com)
2
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that (acm.org)
2
Deep Thinking – Garry Kasparov – Talks at Google (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
3
Crossing the Threshold: Mathematics Meets GPT-5 (twitter.com/wtgowers)
1
Handbook of Satisfiability (2021) (iospress.com)
1
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls (seangoedecke.com)
1
Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls (2021) [video] (youtube.com)
3
Modern Software Development Summarized (factoryfactoryfactory.net)
2
Mojito island (FIRE) is a mirage (2009) (signalvnoise.com)
4
Understanding Neural Networks, Visually (visualrambling.space)
1
Chollet on Understanding a Subject (twitter.com/fchollet)
57
Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality (quantamagazine.org)
3
Rabbit Hole Learning (seated.ro)
2
Making Software: Why do we need dithering? (twitter.com/danhollick)
1
GitHub Copilot Customizations (github.com/github)
1
Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016) (divan.dev)
1
Making Software – Illustrated by Dan Hollick (makingsoftware.com)
1
Google: The AI Company (Fall 2025) (acquired.fm)
151
Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time (adventofcode.com)
1
The Nand Game (nandgame.com)
1
Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Cross-Modal Understanding (transformer-circuits.pub)
2
MIT 6.851: Advanced Data Structures (Spring'21) (csail.mit.edu)
48
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) (csail.mit.edu)
1
To Mock a Mockingbird (raymondsmullyan.com)
1
The Innovations in DeepSeek OCR (Reddit LocalLLaMA) (reddit.com)
1
Split the States Riddle (github.com/norvig)
10
Linux disk I/O diagram (2024) (zenodo.org)
1
Claude Code for web–a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic (simonwillison.net)
3
"Choices" by Joel Spolsky (2000) (joelonsoftware.com)
1
How to Build an Origami Computer (quantamagazine.org)
2
Prefer Search Based Tools (2023) (abhijeetbodas2001.github.io)
2
Anamorphosis (wikipedia.org)
2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the best coding model in world (at least for now) (simonwillison.net)
3
What's New in Python 3.14 (python.org)
1
Dimensions – A Walk Through Mathematics (dimensions-math.org)
1
Euclidea – Geometric Constructions Game with Straightedge and Compass (euclidea.xyz)
1
Thinking in Higher Dimensions – Beautiful Visualizations by Jos Leys (2011) (youtube.com)
1
The Greatest Paper Airplanes – KittyHawk Software (1995) (archive.org)
1
Expected number of loops connecting 100 ropes (math.stackexchange.com)
1
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide (simonwillison.net)
2
Claude's new Code Interpreter review (simonwillison.net)
1
Exploration and Epiphany – Incomplete open cubes (youtube.com)
6
GPT-5 Pro is suited for solving hard problems (twitter.com/karpathy)
1
Why Ancient Ruins Are Underground [video] (youtube.com)
2