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Microsoft’s presentation of the Surface Laptop Ultra included an accidental product rename: a slide about ports labelled the range “Surace.” Pavan Davuluri was presenting the machine when the typo appeared on screen for …
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The 2008 Nintendo DSi gets a peculiar second career through RNDS-Stream, a homebrew project by gavff64. A Linux PC sends an MJPEG view of an X11 or xWayland window to the handheld at roughly 15 to 20 FPS. Counterstrike w…
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Artmuseum.artfrompixels.com turns art-history material from Wikipedia into a navigable 3D museum. Visitors move along a timeline, select periods or artists, and enter galleries showing related works. The site covers move…
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Remy Porter examines a Java example meant to teach a junior developer how to accept A or B from standard input. The senior developer wraps one character in Optional and routes it through nested maps and Map.Entry objects…
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A retrocomputing project by Levente Szabadkai reconstructs the Commodore 64 keyboard lettering from photographs and publishes it as a vector font on GitHub. The uppercase-only package also covers punctuation, PETSCII gly…
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AnyPS5 is an open-source project that relinks PS5 executables for Linux and Windows and supplies replacement system PRX libraries for dynamic linking. Its status page reports the share of functions it knows from its decl…
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Alan C. Kay’s 1993 history follows Smalltalk from 1960s research to the Xerox PARC systems that shaped personal computing. It connects the language’s object model with the Burroughs 220, B5000, Sketchpad, Simula, LISP, F…
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Remy Porter revisits DJ’s first paid web project, written when he was 19. To choose a banner record, the PHP code scans every row, records the largest ID, rolls random numbers until one exists, then builds a SQL query by…
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Paulos Yibelo says a Vercel bug bounty uncovered a zero-day in Linux KVM that could let a virtual machine guest reach root on its host. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch identified KVM as the affected hypervisor. Public evidenc…
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Elon Musk says SpaceXAI, the business formed by merging SpaceX and xAI, will take the name SpaceXSI. The move follows Donald Trump's September 29 order telling US federal agencies to use SI, meaning Super Intelligence, i…
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An anonymous submission reviewed by Remy Porter turns a trivial legacy-Java time lookup into a small ceremony. The code creates a Date for the current moment, obtains its millisecond value, wraps that value in a Timestam…
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Thoreau BASIC revives the GW-BASIC model for current x86 hardware. It keeps compatibility with old programs while adding UEFI boot and Windows builds. The project is closed source and available on a pay-what-you-want bas…
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Forty years after its release, the BBC Domesday Project remains a national archive trapped in obsolete hardware. More than a million contributors helped build two LaserDiscs documenting UK life, delivered through a BBC M…
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France’s Conseil d’État has rejected Cosmo Wenman’s eight-year bid to obtain publicly funded 3D scans held by the Rodin Museum. The court treated the point-cloud files as reproductions within the museum’s inalienable col…
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Lukas Vogel has built SQLDoom, a playable Doom port whose game logic and renderer run inside CedarDB. SQL supplies the game loop and RGB bitmap output. Python handles keyboard input and timing, then displays the bitmap. …
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A PDF from 1973 about von Neumann reached Hacker News’ front page and drew 162 points. The supplied material contains the file’s binary data, but no readable abstract or discussion. Its historical argument and technical …
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A password form can display five satisfied requirements and still refuse the password. The latest Error'd roundup from The Daily WTF collects that case and several related examples, including an Oracle Fusion reset scree…
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A production authentication helper from an anonymous submission contains a TODO and returns true for every input token. The authenticated user is recorded separately when the session begins, which limits some impersonati…
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Bloomberg Terminal began in 1981 as a focused bond-data system and grew into a private network for market news and trading. Its color-coded keyboard and Instant Bloomberg chat helped define financial computing. Today the…
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Remy Porter’s September 30, 2026, CodeSOD item examines a C# method from Fritz’s team that tests proximity by scanning every integer coordinate in a square. The loop can answer a box-style question, but it does not compu…
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Clifford Stoll's 1989 book follows an investigation that began with a 75-cent accounting discrepancy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The missing charge exposed a modem intruder who reached military systems and …
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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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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…