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Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

73•dxs•8h ago

https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/

The full 4-1/2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVHkL0IWk4

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zabzonk•1h ago

back in the days when beards were serious beards

noir_lord•52m ago

We still have serious beards kicking around.

The Linux folks, Andrew Kelley etc all qualify as True Beards.

Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams

https://www.adamlogue.com/microsoft-365-copilot-arbitrary-data-exfiltration-via-mermaid-diagrams-...

69•gnabgib•2h ago•13 comments

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)

https://github.com/dvir-biton/MyraOS

93•dvirbt•4h ago•8 comments

Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-sandhill-cranes-have-adopted-a-canadian-gosli...

22•NaOH•4d ago•4 comments

Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet

24•luismedel•2h ago•2 comments

A definition of AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212

134•pegasus•7h ago•208 comments

You already have a Git server

https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/

387•chmaynard•14h ago•313 comments

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-media

42•throwaway81523•54m ago•9 comments

NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966

https://flashbak.com/norad-cheyenne-mountain-combat-center-478804/

84•zdw•5d ago•40 comments

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

73•dxs•8h ago•2 comments

Poison, Poison Everywhere

https://loeber.substack.com/p/29-poison-poison-everywhere

94•dividendpayee•3h ago•36 comments

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/

328•bblcla•3d ago•66 comments

System.LongBool

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/System.LongBool

34•surprisetalk•4d ago•25 comments

Wren: A classy little scripting language

https://wren.io/

117•Lyngbakr•4d ago•33 comments

AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

https://dipakwani.com/ai-mafia/

68•dipakwani•2h ago•6 comments

We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3"

https://engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-by-rolling-our-own-s3-6caec1ee1143

21•mpweiher•4h ago•3 comments

Asbestosis

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html

215•zeristor•17h ago•157 comments

Making the Electron Microscope

https://www.asimov.press/p/electron-microscope

58•mailyk•8h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium

https://github.com/jqssun/android-helium-browser

21•jqssun•2h ago•6 comments

Feed the bots

https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/

150•chmaynard•13h ago•105 comments

Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot

https://sphere.computer/

6•ChrisArchitect•3d ago•1 comments

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/alzheimers-disrupts-circadian-rhythms-of-plaque-clearing-brain-ce...

149•gmays•7h ago•27 comments

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

174•Bogdanp•6d ago•29 comments

Pico-Banana-400k

https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k

358•dvrp•23h ago•60 comments

Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/search

409•bookofjoe•1w ago•80 comments

Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches

https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/researchers-demonstrate-centimetre-level-positioning-using-...

15•geox•1w ago•5 comments

Formal Reasoning [pdf]

https://cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/fr-2025/public/fr.pdf

119•Thom2503•13h ago•27 comments

Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it

https://ourworldindata.org/material-footprint-limitations

11•surprisetalk•11h ago•2 comments

Validating your ideas on strangers (2017)

https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/validating-your-ideas-on-strangers

60•tacon•2d ago•32 comments

Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues

https://en.andros.dev/blog/4e12225f/why-your-socialorg-files-can-have-millions-of-lines-without-a...

79•andros•1d ago•8 comments

Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality

https://publish.obsidian.md/aixplore/Practical+Applications/dgx-lab-benchmarks-vs-reality-day-4

127•RyeCatcher•7h ago•83 comments