These sources ask what survives and in what form. Agent memory sits here beside a recovered hymn and fat cells with a history. Several weigh what to keep raw and what to compress.
Hauntology
A Wikipedia article on hauntology, the idea of the past haunting the present.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
The author's landing page for a novel, followed by a thread of 96 reader comments.
Toni Morrison's Lost Play
A magazine feature on Toni Morrison's only staged play and why it vanished.
Advanced Context Engineering for Coding Agents
A workflow that uses files to carry state between fresh agent contexts.
Agent memory as a file format
A proposal for an open agent memory format built from Markdown pages.
Agents Don't Need Memory. They Need Documentation.
An argument that agents should maintain documents instead of recalling snippets.
I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
A Hacker News thread discussing a blog post that gives LLM agents a Datalog memory.
Just-In-Time Agent Memory with Runtime Agentic Research
A preprint proposing an agent memory that keeps raw history and searches it per request.
Layers of Memory, Layers of Compression
A 2025 blog post describing Letta's memory layers as lossy compression.
Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state
A post proposing that prompts are programs and JSON or Markdown files hold state.
Show HN: Recall
A Hacker News thread on a local memory tool for Claude Code.
The components of agent memory
Anthropic's account of memory notes, dreaming, wikis and injected context.
Context engineering
An explainer that treats everything fed to an LLM as an engineering design problem.
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
An engineering post on helping coding agents make steady progress across many context windows.
Angkor Wat
A Wikipedia article on the Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat.
Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
A Hacker News thread about a map that animates Los Angeles buildings by year built.
You could have invented transformers from memory
A blog post that derives MLP and attention layers by improving a simple key-value memory.
Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered
A news item on a lost Babylonian hymn of praise, pieced together with AI help.
Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
A Nature paper reporting that fat cells keep obesity-linked changes after weight loss.
Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk" letter to Gottfried Leibniz
A blog post reading a 1681 Hooke letter to Leibniz as an early hacker document.
The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? [Study]
A study of what happened to the search traffic of 100 once-celebrated money-making blogs.