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A tweet celebrating the return of the hacker ethos from the golden age of engineering, expressing excitement that everything can and will be tinkered with.
A hobbyist hand-soldered an FPGA-based inference rig for just over $200 using used mining-rig parts, writing low-level VHDL to hard-code Qwen directly into the chip — a striking DIY alternative to expensive NVIDIA GPUs.
Project Blinkenlights is a technology project likely involving blinking lights for displays or hacking, drawing inspiration from early computing traditions.
The article critiques the 'Security as Identity' mindset in the security industry, arguing that prioritizing hacker aesthetics over effective solutions leads to missed opportunities, drawing an analogy to environmentalism's historical failures.
Richard Stallman recounts a playful hack using six chopsticks to illustrate the true meaning of hacking as playful cleverness and exploration, and traces the origins of hacker culture at MIT.
A manifesto reflecting on the evolution of hacker culture from 1986 to 2025, criticizing its commodification and calling for a rebirth of the hacker spirit.
A reflection on how obsession with productivity tools can distract from solving the right problems, illustrated by a Facebook engineer who used simple tools like Sublime Text and printf debugging.
George Hotz explains why he stopped streaming, arguing that spectacle and AI have eroded hacker culture and authentic self-expression, turning participation into passive consumption.
The blog post reflects on Tomáš Petříček's book 'Cultures of Programming,' identifying five cultures of programming (mathematical, hacker, engineering, management, humanist) and relating them to broader technology and scientific research practices. It categorizes them into making vs. relating to software.