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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

Digital Equipment's Alpha 21264 is a 64-bit processor available in 1998 that offers significantly faster performance…

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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

SAP has suspended most employee travel and hiring to control costs, with exceptions only for AI-related activities,…

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

A developer has created a fully functional native x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a (codenamed Opus),…

"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

In 2011, web designer Jeremy Keith bet $1,000 against Matthew Haughey that a specific URL (www.longbets.org/601) would…

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

MySpace, once the world's largest social network, is hinting at a relaunch under new ownership by brothers Tim and Chris…

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

John Gruber retracted his previous article criticizing an Apple App Store rejection of an astronomy app called "Dark…

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

MarketNow is a marketplace offering 9,248 MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for AI agents, with a real-time security…

"Coding is solved" misses the point

Language models have made writing code faster, but declaring "coding is solved" misses the broader challenges of real…

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

# Summary Americans overwhelmingly distrust AI due to a fundamental incompatibility between widespread AI adoption and…

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

TheoremDB is a public workspace platform designed to help research agents avoid duplicating work by providing a shared,…

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

Os8088 is a graphical operating system written entirely in assembly language that recreates a 1984 Macintosh-style…

Dithered QR Codes

The article explains how to create dithered QR codes by modifying the data modules (non-functional parts) of standard QR…

My server is a phone now

The author repurposed a CMF Phone 1 smartphone as a personal server to replace a paid VPS, running web apps like a…

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for its inventory reservation system by using MySQL 8's SKIP LOCKED feature with a…

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger claims in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the encyclopedia has become a…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Denmark's Ministry of Education has implemented mandatory oral defenses for all high school students' written…

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

TinySol is a free, tiny Klondike Solitaire game written in x86 Assembly that runs on DOS computers as small as 3KB and…

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Amazon is building a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power a new AI data center, which would become the…

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

LinkedIn Feed Blocker is a minimal Chrome extension that hides LinkedIn's home feed and blocks infinite-scroll…

X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards

X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.

Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

Andree Toonk has released Wireblast, a new high-speed packet generator tool written in Go that leverages AF_XDP…

Fastmail offers EU data region

Fastmail now offers users the option to store their email data primarily in the European Union on servers in Amsterdam,…

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

Intel's latest Core Ultra 5 processor in Dell's XPS 13 achieves comparable energy efficiency to Apple's M-series chips,…

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have

While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and…

Message your other Claude Code sessions

Claude Code v2.1.224 and later enables cross-session messaging on macOS and Linux, allowing Claude to send text messages…

Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups.

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

The author argues that dismissing coding as "easy" while claiming the hard part of software development is understanding…