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Philosophical ideas and arguments about knowledge, ethics, mind, metaphysics, and reasoning.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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20261,336 stories
Superlogical↗ superlogical.com · HN · 458 comments · 796 points · Jul 29, 2026
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke↗ raymyers.org · HN · 785 comments · 1554 points · Jul 13, 2026
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity↗ therepublicofletters.substack.com · HN · 245 comments · 560 points · Jun 16, 2026
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?↗ aphyr.com · HN · 773 comments · 745 points · Apr 16, 2026
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced↗ github.com · HN · 376 comments · 639 points · Jan 21, 2026
20251,497 stories
Eternal Struggle↗ yoavg.github.io · HN · 136 comments · 680 points · Aug 31, 2025
Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything↗ github.com · HN · 533 comments · 773 points · Aug 13, 2025
Why are there so many rationalist cults?↗ asteriskmag.com · HN · 911 comments · 544 points · Aug 12, 2025
Guess I'm a rationalist now↗ scottaaronson.blog · HN · 1188 comments · 323 points · Jun 19, 2025
Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)↗ digital.archives.caltech.edu · HN · 268 comments · 513 points · Feb 21, 2025
20241,497 stories
SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)↗ simondobson.org · HN · 180 comments · 466 points · Nov 16, 2024
Reflections on Palantir↗ nabeelqu.substack.com · HN · 581 comments · 482 points · Oct 16, 2024
Feynman’s Razor↗ defenderofthebasic.substack.com · HN · 128 comments · 357 points · Jun 07, 2024
Daniel Dennett has died↗ dailynous.com · HN · 630 comments · 952 points · Apr 19, 2024
Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)↗ philosophygeek.medium.com · HN · 317 comments · 388 points · Feb 04, 2024
20231,683 stories
Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 87 comments · 43 points · Dec 25, 2023
Sireum Logika↗ logika.v3.sireum.org · HN · 2 comments · 48 points · Dec 24, 2023
Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed↗ philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com · HN · 117 comments · 56 points · Dec 22, 2023
Git Branches: Intuition and Reality↗ jvns.ca · HN · 31 comments · 62 points · Nov 23, 2023
Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder↗ crookedtimber.org · HN · 27 comments · 60 points · Nov 15, 2023
20221,563 stories
An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek↗ infiniteconversation.com · HN · 137 comments · 495 points · Nov 02, 2022
Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored↗ erikhoel.substack.com · HN · 477 comments · 477 points · Mar 16, 2022
The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back↗ ianleslie.substack.com · HN · 145 comments · 302 points · Jan 28, 2022
All of Wittgenstein is now public domain↗ wittgensteinproject.org · HN · 56 comments · 369 points · Jan 01, 2022
Intellectual Loneliness↗ perell.com · HN · 393 comments · 386 points · Jan 01, 2022
20211,547 stories
Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice↗ commoncog.com · HN · 126 comments · 414 points · Dec 12, 2021
Timeline of the Human Condition↗ southampton.ac.uk · HN · 112 comments · 471 points · Nov 04, 2021
Tools for Thinking↗ juliendesrosiers.com · HN · 133 comments · 292 points · Aug 24, 2021
Thomas Aquinas' works with English and original Latin presented in parallel↗ aquinas.cc · HN · 92 comments · 231 points · Jul 06, 2021
A Lifetime of Systems Thinking↗ thesystemsthinker.com · HN · 75 comments · 284 points · Jun 06, 2021
20201,718 stories
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)↗ theguardian.com · HN · 446 comments · 826 points · Dec 20, 2020
How to Understand Things↗ nabeelqu.co · HN · 116 comments · 816 points · Jul 11, 2020
John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 60 comments · 379 points · Apr 11, 2020
How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)↗ reasonablypolymorphic.com · HN · 57 comments · 688 points · Feb 17, 2020
Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 388 comments · 613 points · Jan 19, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

First Principles Thinking↗ sunilsadasivan.com · HN · 134 comments · 285 points · Sep 25, 2026
Tech Needs Humanists More↗ passo.uno · HN · 148 comments · 86 points · Sep 25, 2026
Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots↗ markmanson.substack.com · HN · 95 comments · 69 points · Sep 28, 2026
Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)↗ wondermark.com · HN · 57 comments · 74 points · Sep 22, 2026
Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 97 comments · 213 points · Sep 06, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

First Principles Thinking↗ sunilsadasivan.com · HN · 134 comments · 285 points · Sep 25, 2026
Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 97 comments · 213 points · Sep 06, 2026
Tech Needs Humanists More↗ passo.uno · HN · 148 comments · 86 points · Sep 25, 2026
Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)↗ wondermark.com · HN · 57 comments · 74 points · Sep 22, 2026
Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots↗ markmanson.substack.com · HN · 95 comments · 69 points · Sep 28, 2026
Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer↗ askamonk.online · HN · 35 comments · 63 points · Sep 18, 2026
Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas↗ adropincalm.com · HN · 54 comments · 56 points · Aug 30, 2026
The Nature of Dance↗ vester.si · HN · 46 comments · 35 points · Sep 12, 2026
Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)↗ lareviewofbooks.org · HN · 64 comments · 34 points · Sep 14, 2026
Thinking, Fast and Slow↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 4 comments · 18 points · Sep 21, 2026

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