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Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?

18•draxen•3h ago
I mean both things that are enabled by AI coding agents but also things we couldn't do because computers weren't fast enough in the past.

Comments

jackb4040•1h ago
Lisp Machines. And if you're a real freak, Forth Machines
gulugawa•1h ago
Coding without LLM AI.
thakoppno•1h ago
tech debt
qtqtqt•1h ago
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

iamdamian•1h ago
Plan 9 was cool.
krapp•1h ago
The plan involving the raising of the dead?
mannyv•1h ago
Analog computing
nwhnwh•50m ago
Love
FDEUp•39m ago
Computer Lib / Dream Machines

Xanadu

soon_to_be_sb•34m ago
How about giving a shit about efficiency?
vrighter•32m ago
what fast and performant really means.
rramadass•11m ago
All types of unconventional/exotic computing. I think this has been criminally neglected ever since the ascendancy of the von neumann architecture digital computer.

1) The Zen of Exotic Computing by Peter Kogge - https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611977295

2) Handbook Of Unconventional Computing in 2-vols (Vol1-Theory, Vol2- Implementations) by Andrew Adamatzky et al. - https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12232#...