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Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dsp-pioneer-jim-boddie

54•jnord•7mo ago

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rasz•7mo ago

Recent "Sound Chip, whisper me your secrets!" talk from Gulaschprogrammiernacht hacker convention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432451 is about reverse engineering from silicon nineties audio DSPs (Ensoniq, Roland, Yamaha) and those chips are truly bizarre. 48-bit VLIW with no jumps/conditionals.

N_A_T_E•7mo ago

Sounds like an amazing guy. Bell labs had such engineering talent. I’m somewhat against breaking up Google (Alphabet) because it might be the the only company left with vaguely similar culture, capability and capital.

rasz•7mo ago

>Bell labs had such engineering talent

True. 56K modem inventor Brent Townshend went to work at Bell Labs (87-90) straight from Uni and undoubtedly access to state of the art DSP technology so early was a key factor.

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html

198•awaaz•4h ago•33 comments

Dave Farber has passed away

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/

9•vitplister•23m ago•2 comments

Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock

38•jingkai_he•3h ago•5 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt

245•yi_wang•10h ago•119 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600

14•pacod•2h ago•1 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding

144•RebelPotato•10h ago•43 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

323•valyala•18h ago•65 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/

136•swah•5d ago•245 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html

45•grep_it•5d ago•8 comments

Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-modern-and-antique-technologies-reveal-a-dynamic-cosmos-20260202/

11•sohkamyung•5d ago•0 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

242•mellosouls•20h ago•400 comments

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

21•Ezhik•1h ago•8 comments

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (JS)

https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html

12•molszanski•3d ago•3 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

195•surprisetalk•17h ago•200 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

197•AlexeyBrin•23h ago•36 comments

uLauncher

https://github.com/jrpie/launcher

40•dtj1123•5d ago•10 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

213•vinhnx•21h ago•24 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

376•jesperordrup•1d ago•112 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...

85•gnufx•16h ago•66 comments

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/

85•pentagrama•6h ago•22 comments

The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)

https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/1075/753

5•cainxinth•3d ago•0 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/

56•Rygian•3d ago•28 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path

117•momciloo•18h ago•25 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

156•samasblack•20h ago•95 comments

In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/australian-outback-nuclear-tests-listening-warramunga-faci...

17•defrost•2h ago•4 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

622•theblazehen•3d ago•223 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...

77•witnessme•7h ago•35 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

114•thelok•20h ago•27 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

198•speckx•4d ago•293 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/

929•klaussilveira•1d ago•284 comments