Submissions from gwern.net

		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		304 points by bambax 13 days ago \| past \| 54 comments
		Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		40 points by birdculture 14 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption (2016) (gwern.net)
		2 points by mcmoor 15 days ago \| past
		Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
		7 points by tzury 16 days ago \| past
		NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022) (gwern.net)
		127 points by Ariarule 18 days ago \| past \| 82 comments
		Some Proposals for Reviving the Philosophy of Mathematics (1979) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		4 points by sebg 20 days ago \| past
		'Try, Score, Change': Reinforcement Learning for Children (gwern.net)
		7 points by helloplanets 23 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		3 points by simonpure 26 days ago \| past
		The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net)
		1 point by navigate8310 43 days ago \| past
		Darknet Market Mortality Risks (gwern.net)
		4 points by blahaj 54 days ago \| past
		The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)
		1 point by shpat 61 days ago \| past
		Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		4 points by sendes 66 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		The American Soldier [pdf] (gwern.net)
		4 points by hbarka 66 days ago \| past
		Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
		88 points by gggscript 66 days ago \| past \| 14 comments
		Feynman's War: Modelling Weapons, Modelling Nature (1986) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		2 points by nill0 3 months ago \| past
		The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)
		6 points by iamsam123 3 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Writing for LLMs So They Listen (gwern.net)
		2 points by barry-cotter 3 months ago \| past
		The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		303 points by rendx 3 months ago \| past \| 159 comments
		Situated Software (gwern.net)
		3 points by ustad 3 months ago \| past
		Archiving URLs (gwern.net)
		4 points by poidos 3 months ago \| past
		Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		482 points by gurjeet 3 months ago \| past \| 326 comments
		Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)
		6 points by cainxinth 3 months ago \| past
		Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
		308 points by theblazehen 3 months ago \| past \| 95 comments
		The Great Automatic Grammatizator – Roald Dahl (1954) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		3 points by adityaathalye 3 months ago \| past
		Adding Bits Beats AI Slop (2025) (gwern.net)
		7 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago \| past
		Dual N-Back (gwern.net)
		1 point by aggrrrh 3 months ago \| past
		Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)
		93 points by teej 4 months ago \| past \| 23 comments
		Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
		4 points by gildas 4 months ago \| past
		Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
		5 points by Antibabelic 4 months ago \| past
		Video Games as Art (gwern.net)
		101 points by andsoitis 4 months ago \| past \| 76 comments
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