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The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/
40•cfmcdonald•1w ago

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MarkLowenstein•42m ago
Reliving the days when the possibilities were endless and we weren't already captured by an entrenched computing path is important. 50 years ago, every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened. Why not? (Reasons aren't hard to come up with, but the process of doing so draws our imagination toward what computer interfaces could have been and should still be.)
spankibalt•23m ago
> "[...] every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened."

Storing recipes "never happened"? Rubbish! Even famous cook Casey Ryback used his Apple Newton to store recipes, as evidenced in the 1995 documentary Under Siege 2 [1].

1. [https://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=23]

eigencoder•16m ago
Hey, I store recipes on my home computer! Having a portable handheld terminal that can view the recipes makes it much more practical than it would have been in the 80s.

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
131•minimaxir•1h ago•32 comments

Zed is our office

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office
270•sagacity•3h ago•126 comments

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to de-enshittify the web

https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding
79•jmadeano•3h ago•68 comments

A hemp industry shutdown has just begun

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/11/13/rand-paul-congress-funding-...
112•bilsbie•1h ago•36 comments

GitHub Partial Outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1jw8ltnr1qrj
131•danfritz•4h ago•54 comments

Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

https://www.checkout.com/blog/protecting-our-merchants-standing-up-to-extortion
429•StrangeSound•9h ago•210 comments

SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d...
89•meetpateltech•3h ago•18 comments

Blender Lab

https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/
148•radeeyate•5h ago•39 comments

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
22•msub2•15m ago•1 comments

The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/
40•cfmcdonald•1w ago•3 comments

BAML is hiring compilers/rust engineers (YC W23)

https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml/tree/canary/jobs
1•hellovai•2h ago

Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)

https://github.com/ory/kratos
96•curtistyr•5h ago•62 comments

We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner

https://prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-our-mongodb-costs-by-90-percent/
139•arbol•4h ago•97 comments

Think in Math. Write in Code

https://www.jmeiners.com/think-in-math/
18•alabhyajindal•4d ago•5 comments

Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires

https://www.denx.de/
62•synergy20•5h ago•11 comments

Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel After Atari Purchase (1985)

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/family-computing-interviews-jack
6•rbanffy•1w ago•0 comments

How To Build A Smartwatch: Software

https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software-setting-expectations-and-roadmap/
47•teekert•4h ago•15 comments

Heartbeats in Distributed Systems

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/heartbeats-in-distributed-systems/
59•sebg•5h ago•21 comments

Android developer verification: Early access starts

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
1247•erohead•18h ago•579 comments

IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'

https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/ibm-patented-eulers-fractions
18•busymom0•37m ago•1 comments

Human Fovea Detector

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM
406•AbuAssar•18h ago•82 comments

Cursor: Past, Present, and Future

https://cursor.com/blog/series-d
34•whizusukite•5h ago•16 comments

A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-olympics
34•quapster•1w ago•4 comments

Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
2531•davikr•1d ago•1199 comments

Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115533432439509433
219•uneven9434•15h ago•117 comments

COBOL to Kotlin via Formal Models (IR and Alloy and Golden Master)

https://marcoeg.medium.com/from-cobol-to-kotlin-795920b1f371
32•marcoeg•5d ago•8 comments

Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption

https://landaire.net/reversing-yaesu-firmware-encryption/
118•austinallegro•12h ago•16 comments

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755
320•firexcy•21h ago•245 comments

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/britains-railway-privatization-was-an-abject-failure
422•robtherobber•5h ago•371 comments

Continuous Autoregressive Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27688
97•Anon84•1w ago•7 comments