Hacker News
- Pushing It Back http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/09/pushing-it-back.html 30 comments
- The Ends of Education http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-end-of-education.html 65 comments
- “It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/07/itll-all-be-over-by-christmas-.html 195 comments
- The Panopticon Singularity (2002) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/rant/panopticon-essay.html 4 comments
- Policy change: future US visits http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/01/policy-change-future-us-visits.html 8 comments
- Charles Stross: “Playtime is over” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/11/playtime-is-over.html 2 comments
- “Tomorrow belongs to me” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/06/tomorrow-belongs-to-me.html 15 comments
- Thoughtcrime http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html 257 comments
- A different cluetrain http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html 83 comments
- Stross on Cameron's proposed UK crypto ban http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/01/ah-politics.html 15 comments
- Stross on: why my Android tablet experience sucks http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/06/gadget-patrol-why-android-tabl.html 41 comments
- How the shift to ebooks will affect genre categories in fiction http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/the-death-of-genre.html 45 comments
- Charlie Stross on Girls Around Me http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/not-an-april-fool-1.html 104 comments
- "Nothing like this will be built again": a tour of a working nuclear reactor http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html 37 comments
- Space colonization is implicitly incompatible with libertarian ideology http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/space-cadets.html 4 comments
- "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour http://www.antipope.org/charlie/rant/torness.html 20 comments
Lobsters
- Rise Of The Trollbot http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/04/rise-of-the-trollbot.html 9 comments culture
- Lying to the Ghost in the Machine: Charles Stross discusses the implications of increasingly "magical" IoT devices http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/03/lying-to-the-ghost-in-the-mach.html 4 comments programming
- Charlie Stross as 34C3 suggests viewing early corporations (1553-1884) as a form of AI to recognize the mechanisms we've already built against the universal paperclip maximizer. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html 4 comments compsci
- What else can you do with [SpaceX's] Big Dumb [Mars] Booster? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/09/what-else-can-you-do-with-a-bi.html 11 comments spacex
- Thoughtcrime http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html 9 comments europe
- Why books are the length they are http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-5-why-books-are-the-lengt.html 4 comments books
- As John Maynard Keynes observed in the 1930s, we produce material goods more efficiently today than during previous eras of history: our economic growth is predicated on this. Why should we not divert some of our growth into growing our leisure time, rather than growing our physical wealth? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/04/a-nation-of-slaves.html?=1 83 comments economy
- Unix as religion http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/metaphor-for-the-day.html 8 comments technology
- Stross: Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html 83 comments technology
- Charlie Stross' Perl-generated mashup of the Complete Works of HP Lovecraft and the King James Bible (includes code) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/lovebiblepl.html 6 comments perl
- It is probably a good thing that Reddit's interstellar travel enthusiasts read this article (written by Charles Stross) in order to minimize the dissonance between realistic space travel advancements and plain wishful thinking. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html 27 comments space
- The Linux guy who necessitated the invention of robots.txt http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_got_here_in_the_end_part_3.html 4 comments linux
- Charlie Stross: Invaders from Mars - Why do we feel politically powerless? Because power in society has been ceded to corporate entities, whose priorities are not those of human beings. "We are living in the aftermath of an alien invasion" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html 25 comments worldnews
- Scifi author Charlie Stross has a hypothesis on "why the world is so obviously going to hell in a handbasket" -- soulless corporations -- and I agree. Big business is taking over the world. For the bad. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html 4 comments politics
- Stolen from /r/technology: What is the minimum number of people you need in order to maintain our current level of technological civilization? (Charles Stross) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insufficient-data.html 8 comments philosophy
- How many people does it take to run the modern world? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insufficient-data.html 15 comments technology
- Why are we in Afghanistan? The lithium of course... http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/06/geopolitics-in-the-raw.html 3 comments politics
- Is this the new Apple business model? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Charles Stross: The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html 539 comments programming
- The myth of the starship http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the-myth-of-the-starship.html 46 comments space
- What's good for the internet is good for Google. Right now, the phone companies are not good for the internet. If I'm right about the grand strategy, the Googlephone will change that. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/12/21st_century_phone.html 158 comments technology
- Charlie Stross on technology 25 years from now http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/05/login_2009_keynote_gaming_in_t.html 26 comments programming
- Spam evasion takes on a new guise: splattered gnome corpses http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/07/unpacking_the_zeitgeist.html 2 comments programming
- Let's approximate one astronomical unit to one centimeter... http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html 4 comments reddit.com