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The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/battle-britains-first-book-month-club

9•samclemens•6mo ago

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tzs•6mo ago

All but the opening is behind a paywall, but the author is an Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies, University of Reading, and has an article on the university’s research blog that looks like it may cover some of the same material:

https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2022/10/28/the-...

There is more on the club here, including a list of all their book choices:

https://research.reading.ac.uk/thebooksociety/

cafard•6mo ago

At a glance, I seem to have read about two from every three years. (It helps when there are gimmes like Austen, Tolstoy, Waugh.) One that I hadn't thought of in many years is The Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Read in high school or in junior high?

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

49•thelok•3h ago•5 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

109•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•19 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

45•vinhnx•4h ago•6 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/

802•klaussilveira•21h ago•245 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/

69•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

The Waymo World Model

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1049•xnx•1d ago•593 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

79•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•87 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

467•theblazehen•2d ago•172 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/

8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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191•jesperordrup•11h ago•65 comments

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https://github.com/suitenumerique

520•nar001•5h ago•241 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

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201•alainrk•5h ago•302 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

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31•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

72M Points of Interest

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24•marklit•5d ago•1 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

108•videotopia•4d ago•28 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

61•mellosouls•3h ago•63 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

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28•alephnerd•1h ago•11 comments

Where did all the starships go?

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65•speckx•4d ago•67 comments

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https://github.com/sandys/kappal

21•sandGorgon•2d ago•10 comments

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271•isitcontent•21h ago•36 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

199•limoce•4d ago•109 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

282•dmpetrov•21h ago•151 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

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154•matheusalmeida•2d ago•47 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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553•todsacerdoti•1d ago•266 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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423•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o

178•bookofjoe•3h ago•164 comments

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366•vecti•23h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

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465•lstoll•1d ago•306 comments

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345•eljojo•1d ago•212 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/

40•matt_d•4d ago•16 comments