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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 61 posts.
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
The Super Nintendo classic started life on the 8-bit NES. That version was considered lost...until now.
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DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
East-German spy radio set Type 2, used during the Cold War by agents working for East-Germany (DDR).
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Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)
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The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
The Declaration of Causes made by Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
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C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." - CS Lewis
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For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in the Camp wildfire
Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community for his 1970s-1980s work at Godbout Electronics and CompuPro, perished November 8 due to the Camp wildfire in Concow, California. He was 79.
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Fifteen Years of Fedora
Read this Magazine article to learn about the history of Fedora, the original Fedora Core 1 release, and how much has changed over 15 years.
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The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly
I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one thing or another has gotten in the way. It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, ...
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Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition
With the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub complete, Nat Friedman joins as CEO.
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The Slide Rule
At the turn of the 16th century, Johannes Kepler set out to disprove Copernicus, who believed planets orbited in perfect, concentric circles from the sun. Kepler first formulated his hypothesis: planets had elliptical orbits with two foci, and then set out to prove it mathematically. 4 years and 900 pages of…
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A Brief History of High Availability
The perennial question of homo sapiens is, 'How did we get here?' Today we're going to take a crack at answering that: where 'here' is defined as 'high availability for web services'.
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Why does the Zune HD have the message “For our Princess” inside of the case?
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Ten years of V8
An overview of major milestones for the V8 project in the past 10 years as well as the years before, when the project was still secret.
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The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective
A few weeks ago I (=Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick) gave a keynote at ICOOOLPS in Amsterdam with the above title. I was very happy to have bee...
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
The Worst Computer Bugs in History is a mini series to commemorate the discovery of the first computer bug seventy years ago. Although these stories are more extreme than most software bugs engineers will encounter during their careers, they are worth studying for the insights they can offer into software development…
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique
Viking-age smiths used the process known as riving to reduce a tree trunk to planks or to other useful articles. Rather than sawing the wood, they split it. As a result, the grain of the wood follows the piece being fabricated, creating a much stronger item than if it had been sawn. It's one of several reasons why…
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