Hackernews posts about MIT Press

MIT Press is an academic publishing house and book publisher affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known for its high-quality publications on various subjects including science, technology, engineering, mathematics, humanities, and social sciences.

  1. The lost civic life of movie rental stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    214 points by facundo_olano 13 days ago | 275 comments
  2. A Brief History of the Internet's Favorite Scam (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    5 points by the-mitr 13 days ago | discuss
  3. How the Amish Let Technology in Without Letting It Take Over (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    4 points by cainxinth 8 days ago | 1 comments
  4. The False Promise of the First 'Smart' Homes (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    4 points by EA-3167 19 days ago | 1 comments
  5. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (2018) (mitpress.mit.edu)
    4 points by doener 21 days ago | 1 comments
  6. The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    3 points by XzetaU8 4 days ago | discuss
  7. Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    3 points by EA-3167 6 days ago | discuss
  8. Inventing Eliza – How the First Chatbot Shaped AI (mitpress.mit.edu)
    1 points by aanet 29 days ago | 1 comments
  9. Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com)
    104 points by pancomplex 16 days ago | 44 comments
  10. Show HN: FedTerm – a Claude-native terminal for macOS that popup like Spotlight (github.com)
    2 points by treenix_io 15 days ago | discuss
  11. Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all (news.mit.edu)
    2 points by rbanffy 30 days ago | discuss
  12. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    1033 points by starfallg 21 days ago | 239 comments
  13. Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust (episko.dev)
    13 points by evolabs 11 days ago | 2 comments
  14. Show HN: Update on my media editor in browser no back end (www.masterselects.com)
    4 points by Sportinger 28 days ago | discuss
  15. The Cost of Seamlessness
    3 points by taotuner 18 days ago | 3 comments
  16. Show HN: A local-first, modular replacement for your accounting software (github.com)
    2 points by ngsevers 3 days ago | discuss
  17. Show HN: Otaku – A Roleplay Terminal Client (github.com)
    2 points by enclavum5 4 days ago | discuss
  18. Show HN: Lowkey Studio – Shader Powered visual effects compositor in the Browser (lowkeyviewer.com)
    2 points by tracerbulletx 17 days ago | discuss
  19. Russian court confiscate 123 real estate assets belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses (pressearn.it.com)
    2 points by Obama123 about 14 hours ago | discuss
  20. Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (www.trykeet.com)
    47 points by zackashen 1 day ago | 45 comments
  21. Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism (intergalacticrobots.app)
    41 points by geekamongus 6 days ago | 41 comments
  22. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (www.whodunnitai.com)
    210 points by MrRowTheBoat 3 days ago | 89 comments
  23. Show HN: Alchemize – Review AI Slop PRs Faster (tryalchemize.com)
    7 points by robertyhou 1 day ago | discuss
  24. We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke
    4 points by Taskpoolai about 8 hours ago | 4 comments
  25. Show HN: VocalCode
    1 points by wudmaing00 about 5 hours ago | 1 comments
  26. Open Access Books from MIT Press (direct.mit.edu)
    11 points by zakokor over 1 year ago | 1 comments
  27. MIT Press Open Access Collection (archive.org)
    4 points by the-mitr 10 months ago | discuss
  28. Machine Learning Systems [MIT Press] (www.mlsysbook.ai)
    2 points by yellow_postit 9 months ago | discuss
  29. AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (www.404media.co)
    2 points by disposition2 over 1 year ago | discuss
  30. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    710 points by the-mitr 3 months ago | 254 comments
  31. Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    406 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 191 comments
  32. The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    298 points by prismatic 3 months ago | 145 comments
  33. Read the Obits (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    279 points by EA-3167 over 1 year ago | 123 comments
  34. 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    225 points by anarbadalov 4 months ago | 109 comments
  35. Is life a form of computation? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    222 points by redeemed 11 months ago | 143 comments
  36. How Nintendo bled Atari games to death (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    211 points by sohkamyung over 1 year ago | 152 comments
  37. The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023) (mitpress.mit.edu)
    204 points by AlexeyBrin 6 months ago | 23 comments
  38. The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    179 points by anarbadalov over 1 year ago | 131 comments
  39. The Many Sides of Erik Satie (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    175 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 44 comments
  40. The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    136 points by sohkamyung 4 months ago | 19 comments
  41. SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mitpress.mit.edu)
    114 points by mckelveyf about 1 month ago | 45 comments
  42. Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    112 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 48 comments
  43. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    105 points by pseudolus 3 months ago | 34 comments
  44. The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    98 points by EA-3167 3 months ago | 23 comments
  45. The Business of Betting on Catastrophe (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    92 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 48 comments
  46. When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    90 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 20 comments
  47. The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    88 points by sohkamyung 11 months ago | 17 comments
  48. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    84 points by anarbadalov 6 months ago | 24 comments
  49. Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    84 points by anarbadalov over 1 year ago | 12 comments
  50. How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    70 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 44 comments
  51. The Pleasure of Patterns in Art (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    68 points by prismatic 12 months ago | 11 comments
  52. The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    67 points by pseudolus about 2 months ago | 28 comments
  53. Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    56 points by lapetitejort over 1 year ago | 13 comments
  54. Why Are Men More Vulnerable to Depression in Fatherhood? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    49 points by gmays over 1 year ago | 73 comments
  55. Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    44 points by EA-3167 over 1 year ago | 20 comments