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A flaky CI/CD build led Nikolai M to a test that rejected any GUID string containing “000”. The check was meant to catch GUID.Empty, but three consecutive zeroes are common in UUID text: Nikolai measured them in 0.5527% …
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In 1993, Phil Hogan put a Stratus fault-tolerant server into service at Great Lakes Works in Dearborn, Michigan. Twenty-four years later, it had suffered no unplanned shutdown, with about 80% of its hardware still origin…
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Attackers have disguised nine malicious npm packages as popular Express and React tools, triggering a self-spreading Linux worm during installation. The malware establishes a backdoor via Tor and steals SSH access and np…
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Heathrow’s departure displays recently exposed more than flight times. One showed a Windows activation notice alongside flights to Milan and Cairo, while another carried dates from September 21 and September 12. A later …
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COMETLINK relaunches as a dial-up-style online service with six chat rooms and a sign-on screen. A screen name is enough to join. The same rooms appear inside 56k.rip's Windows 95 desktop and dialup.rip's Macintosh deskt…
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fakecloud is a standalone local emulator for AWS integration tests. Applications keep using standard AWS clients, while test code can inspect state and control asynchronous processors through SDKs for TypeScript, Python,…
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Ken Shirriff traced the Intel 8087’s FPTAN instruction from microscope images and 1,648 micro-instructions. The 1980 coprocessor combines 16 CORDIC iterations with the Padé formula 3x/(3-x2), then returns numerator and d…
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Floci packages AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI emulators as local MIT-licensed binaries. Its pitch is a credential-free development loop, with startup claims as low as 24 ms and an AWS endpoint on port 4566. The cloud stays remo…
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This Lobsters /t/historical link points to a YouTube video titled “The Graveyard of Good Ideas.” The available source provides no description, speaker name, publication date, or list of examples. Its subject can therefor…
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An essay by mmagueta connects Cato the Younger’s warning about corrupted political language with software’s growing appetite for plausible labels. It argues that business systems, engineering practice and machine-generat…
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An illustrated primer explains why Amiga users still defend screens: independent display areas could vary in resolution, colour depth and palette, overlap, scroll and slide across one another. The article covers OCS-era …
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JetBrains has introduced Air, a product family for running and managing AI coding agents. Its free public-preview IDE plugin brings Claude Agent, Codex, Junie, Copilot, and OpenCode to PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs. …
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A Mac Mini M6 running a modified 86Box 6.0 build holds a Windows 98 SE machine at 600 MHz Pentium II speed. A base M4 reaches 500 MHz. The test includes emulated Voodoo 3 graphics, Winamp audio, Cinebench 2000 and 3DMark…
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Tim inherited a Visual Basic application from before 2000, written before VB .Net, that adds one leading zero to years below 1000. For Caesar Augustus's death in 14 AD, the output becomes "014". The four-digit form would…
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Matt Birchler found that a chilled La Croix can keep an iPhone 18 Pro out of iOS’s serious thermal state during a 20-run transcription benchmark. The phone sustained 400.4 words per second on the final run, while the tes…
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Yeo Kheng Meng has built an xHCI host driver that lets Windows 98 talk to modern USB controllers, including the hardware in a 2020 ThinkPad. The LLM-assisted project is available as xhci98 on GitHub and still has bugs. I…
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Metaphors make unfamiliar ideas accessible, but they also hide what they leave out. Evan Meagher uses the familiar claim that consciousness is computation to question how much we understand about the brain. He traces ear…
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Ed Nather’s 1983 USENET account about programmer Mel follows the construction of a blackjack demo for Royal McBee’s drum computers. Mel hand-coded hexadecimal, placed instructions by rotational timing, and exploited arit…
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A programmer recalls an entry-level job in 1999 built around Pick, a system that later cost him about $1,000 to leave behind. Pick began as GIRLS for IBM System/360 in 1965 and reached commercial release in 1973. Its dat…
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KAIST's RAIBO2 quadruped covered 42.195 km at South Korea's Sangju Dried Persimmon Marathon in 4:19:52 on one battery charge. A Nature paper published nearly two years later credits lightweight construction, efficient mo…
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Discord has started deploying age estimation after shelving the rollout for more than six months amid user backlash. The model studies account behavior and social connections, while message and call content stay outside …
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Laravel AI SDK 1.0 gives Laravel applications a unified interface for AI providers and adds typed classification, Vercel Chat and AG-UI streaming, and approval workflows for tool calls. The release also changes conversat…
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No new Laravel release is reported since our 22 September item. Laravel News' 23 September review adds implementation detail on Laravel Framework 13.33.0, covering tagged memoized cache reads, the #[Refreshes] model attr…
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Dave Plummer has connected his upgraded PDP-11/83 to pdp1173.com, where visitors can watch 2.11BSD processes refresh every five seconds. The site accepts no commands and shields the machine with a cache. Its four megabyt…
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An early-2000s trading-systems project treated documentation and schedule control as the product. A developer at a stock-market surveillance startup built a needed reporting module over one weekend and revealed it on Mon…
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An Atari 2600 project has squeezed a demake of the 1990s PC adventure Myst onto original hardware. The console offers only 128 bytes of RAM, so Vince built a specialized cartridge from a BurgerTime donor and used E7 bank…
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Fast Excel 5 gives Laravel applications low-memory imports, chunk controls, sheet and column filtering, and formula escaping for user data. Laravel News maps these changes to releases 5.12, 5.16, and 5.17, and documents …
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James Gosling's account settles the origin story behind Java's 0xCAFEBABE marker. The value grew out of
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Laravel News presents Health for Laravel, a package by Sylvester Damgaard for Kubernetes health probes and Prometheus monitoring. Version 2.0.0 targets PHP 8.3 and Laravel 11, 12, or 13. The guide explains probe-specific…
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An animation script contains a C++ call with a parameter named `length4_3_3`. Remy Porter treats the identifier as a disguised range expression, probably equivalent to `length4[3]`, and connects its shape to John Cage’s …