Submissions from plover.com

		Egyptian Fractions (plover.com)
		20 points by luu 1 day ago \| past \| discuss
		Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014) (plover.com)
		2 points by downbad_ 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Did Ahmes find the best expansions for 2/n? (plover.com)
		13 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other (plover.com)
		187 points by surprisetalk 11 days ago \| past \| 157 comments
		Cheney on the MTA (1994) (plover.com)
		3 points by tosh 23 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Subject: I fix a thirty-year-old mistake (plover.com)
		2 points by jjgreen 3 months ago \| past
		Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other (plover.com)
		3 points by frizlab 3 months ago \| past
		Documentation Is a Message in a Bottle (plover.com)
		5 points by pavel_lishin 3 months ago \| past
		Frequently asked questions about signal handling in C (2024) (plover.com)
		3 points by jjgreen 3 months ago \| past
		Language models imply world models (plover.com)
		2 points by gbacon 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)
		2 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago \| past
		John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)
		2 points by mhb 4 months ago \| past
		John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)
		2 points by blenderob 4 months ago \| past
		John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)
		3 points by robinhouston 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		An anecdote about backward compatibility (plover.com)
		82 points by speckx 4 months ago \| past \| 27 comments
		Why is the S combinator an S? (plover.com)
		11 points by fanf2 4 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Mystery of the Quincunx's Missing Quincunx (plover.com)
		4 points by masfuerte 6 months ago \| past
		Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016) (plover.com)
		143 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago \| past \| 73 comments
		My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name (plover.com)
		4 points by leephillips 8 months ago \| past
		My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name (plover.com)
		89 points by jamesbowman 8 months ago \| past \| 62 comments
		Patterns vs. "Patterns" (plover.com)
		2 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago \| past
		Lively Linear Lisp (1992) (plover.com)
		3 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago \| past
		The 1999 and 2003 interstellar messages explained (2005) [pdf] (plover.com)
		2 points by akkartik 11 months ago \| past
		Arithmetic with Continued Fractions (plover.com)
		3 points by fanf2 11 months ago \| past
		Elmo's World NP-complete problem (2006) (plover.com)
		3 points by tomeraberbach 11 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace (2023) (plover.com)
		5 points by thunderbong on May 24, 2025 \| past \| 1 comment
		Claude and I write a utility program (plover.com)
		4 points by todsacerdoti on May 22, 2025 \| past
		The Universe of Discourse: A puzzle about balancing test tubes in a centrifuge (plover.com)
		3 points by pavel_lishin on May 11, 2025 \| past
		Claude and I write a utility program (plover.com)
		1 point by surprisetalk on May 11, 2025 \| past
		Twelve Views of Mark Jason Dominus (plover.com)
		1 point by Tomte on May 6, 2025 \| past
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