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Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-24 11:00:22

The promise of quantum computers appears to be that they will upend modern computing as we know it. With exceptional computational power, they’ll be performing feats unimaginable for any classical supercomputer. The reality of quantum computers hasn’t quite lived up to its hype, however. Claims of “quantum advantage”—problems regular computers can’t solve but quantum computers can—draw criticism from both skeptics and enthusiasts in the field. Certainly, we’ve seen genuinely impressive advancem

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Need to Recycle an Old Laptop or Printer? Here's Where to Take It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 10:00:07

If you've got an old laptop or printer gathering dust in a closet, you're not alone. A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of US adults are still hanging onto outdated electronics because they don't know what to do with them. And while tossing tech in the trash might seem like the easiest option, it's illegal in many states and could land you a fine. The good news? Recycling your old devices is easier than ever. Major retailers like Best Buy, Staples and Office Depot accept laptops, de

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IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-11-25 23:00:20

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 8 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS), the world’s preeminent computer science and engineering member organization, today announced that its journals continue to lead the industry in Journal Impact FactorTM (JIFTM) rankings. Specifically, eight IEEE CS journals hold the coveted top impact factor status in their respective fields. “Every published paper brings value, but some rise to new heights because they provide a launching point for other work,” said Hironori

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40 Years of the Amiga

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-11-29 22:36:15

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-11-30 04:36:15

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-11-30 15:38:22

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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LLM Inflation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:44:38

One of the signal achievements of computing is data compression : we take in data, make it smaller while retaining all information (“lossless” compression), transmit it, and then decompress it back to the original at the other end. For many years, compression was an absolute requirement to get things done: storage devices were too small for the data we wanted to store and networks too slow to transmit what we wanted at an acceptable speed. Today compression is less often an absolute requiremen

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Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 23:12:08

Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

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When Disney Went Digital

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-11-30 17:03:12

A still from The Lion King (1994) Welcome! It’s time for a new Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is our slate for today: 1) How computers changed Disney animation. 2) Newsbits. With that, we’re off! 1 – Into the computer age Computers and animation go way back. During the ‘50s, artist John Whitney used one to draw the opening titles for Vertigo. His experiments led him to digital films like Arabesque in the ‘70s. And he was one of many animators toying with the techn

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PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-03 11:06:29

PBS has suffered a data breach exposing the corporate contact information of its employees and those of its affiliates, BleepingComputer has learned. Earlier this month, BleepingComputer was alerted to a file circulated on Discord servers that allegedly contained this information. This data was not distributed on dark web sites, hacking forums, or other mediums frequented by threat actors. Instead, it was being shared on Discord servers for fans of "PBS Kids," where young adults, teenagers, an

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Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

news.ycombinator.com John Paul Wohlscheid 2025-12-01 09:53:46

from the October 1981 issue of Your Computer magazine Chris Curry's Cambridge company, Acorn, is beginning to emerge as one of the strongest personal computer firms in Britain. Its main product, the Acorn Atom, has proved both popular and reliable. The company won the coveted contract to design and build the computer to be marketed by the BBC and accompany the BBC's planned computer literacy series. Chris Curry talks to Duncan Scot. -------- The ATOM computer is one of the few approved by the

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How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

wired.com Gianluca Dotti 2025-12-05 15:00:00

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very primitive. With a digital computer, we think of doing a computation and getting an answer. The quantum computer is instead going to give us a probability distribution of where the answer is, and you’re going to make a number of, we’ll call it runs on the quantum comp

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Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Atul Gawande 2025-12-08 05:41:28

On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training. We sat in three rows, each of us parked behind a desktop computer. In one month, our daily routines would come to depend upon mastery of Epic, the new medical software system on the screens in front of us. The upgrade from our home-built software would cost the hospital system where we worked, Partners HealthCare, a staggering $1.6 billion

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Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone

venturebeat.com Amin Vahdat 2025-12-08 04:05:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and put virtually all of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the next

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Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 10:53:13

COFFEEMATIC PC A coffee maker computer by Doug MacDowell artist Sometime during winter 2024, I found myself at a thrift store. I was staring at rows of appliances, wrapped in plastic and clinging to life, trying to answer one question: which of these is the right chassis for a retro gaming computer? Driving home, I took corners carefully, checking that the General Electric (GE) drip coffee maker I’d chosen was safe in the backseat. The coffee maker's given name was Coffeematic. Circa 1980,

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Scientists Just Launched the First Quantum Computer Into Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-08 18:31:30

The world of quantum computing has barged into a new frontier: space. A tiny quantum computer housed in a satellite is now in orbit around Earth, ScienceNews reports, residing some 330 miles above our planet after being launched aboard a SpaceX rocket last month. It's a trailblazing experiment intended to test how well these delicate devices can survive the extreme conditions of space, where they could allow satellites to quickly and efficiently perform intense calculations on their own. The

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Apple's USB-C Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is $20 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 16:20:39

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Apple's first-party USB-C Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is on sale for $179 right now via Amazon. That's a discount of $20, as the typical price is $199. This deal applies to both the white and black versions of this accessory. This keyboard has been specifically designed by the compan

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Startup and Nobel laureate collaborate to create GPU financial exchange

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-13 02:22:00

What just happened? A new financial marketplace aims to offer crucial risk management tools to a resource at the center of the tech industry's explosive growth. If successful, the initiative could make access to high-performance compute more predictable and affordable. The world of artificial intelligence is built on computing power, and at the heart of that engine are graphics processing units. These chips are in such high demand that they have often been compared to oil during the gold rush,

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Introduction to Computer Music

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 23:37:22

About This Textbook The Introduction to Computer Music was initially designed as an online text for first-year study of computer music. This e-book aspires to present information in sufficient depth to be useful to composers, beginning audio engineers and other musicians, professional or otherwise, interested in making music with technology. The first edition of this text was begun in 2004 with an Indiana University Instructional Development Grant and has served our electronic studio resources

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Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 17:37:22

About This Textbook The Introduction to Computer Music was initially designed as an online text for first-year study of computer music. This e-book aspires to present information in sufficient depth to be useful to composers, beginning audio engineers and other musicians, professional or otherwise, interested in making music with technology. The first edition of this text was begun in 2004 with an Indiana University Instructional Development Grant and has served our electronic studio resources

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:52:39

A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. In June, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warned that threat actors tracked as UNC6040 were targeting Salesforce customers in social engineering attacks. In these attacks, the threat actors impersonated IT support staff in phone calls to targeted employees, a

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Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-15 11:44:09

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Unless you're using a computer from the '90s or early 2000s, typically speaking, Ubuntu runs very well on most machines. I've found it to be fairly predictable in that respect. However, nothing is perfect, and you might run into an instance where the open-source operating system doesn't perform up to your standards. So, what do you do? Do you hop to a different distribution? You certainly could, as there are plenty of Linux distributions that work perfectly on older hardwa

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You Can Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free. Here's Where to Take Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 05:25:04

It's somehow really hard to get rid of your old laptops, desktops and printers, even when it's been over a decade since you last plugged them in. But recycling old tech is easier than you think and can free up a lot of space in your home. A CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto old, unused devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. The survey also found that 19% of respondents just toss old devices in the trash -- which is actually illeg

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Phishing Email Alert

computer.org Jennifer Salazar 2025-12-22 06:33:17

We are aware of recent phishing emails impersonating Hironori Washizaki from a Gmail address. These messages are fraudulent and were not sent by the IEEE Computer Society. No internal systems have been breached. If you receive such an email, please delete it and do not respond. For questions or to report similar messages, contact [email protected]. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:25:53

The Montana Mini-Computer / MTMC-16 Homepage The MonTana state Mini Computer is a virtual computer intended to show how digital computation works in a fun and visual way. The MTSC combines ideas from the PDP-11, MIPS, Scott CPU, Game Boy and JVM to make a relatively simple 16-bit computer that can accomplish basic computing tasks. The computer is displayed via a web interface that includes all the I/O such as console and display, visual representations of the computer state, and a built in co

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The best all-in-one computers of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-24 10:00:17

All-in-one (AIO) computers combine performance and speed in a space-saving design, integrating components into a single monitor. These machines are ideal for households wanting a clean setup without sacrificing basic functionality. The best laptop can offer a similar experience, but I still recommend AIOs for their larger screens and often powerful audio systems. However, AIO computers typically offer more modest hardware than traditional computers. These devices have limited upgrade options, r

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Two narratives about AI

news.ycombinator.com Study Hacks 2025-12-25 20:08:09

I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point toward two very different conclusions. The first narrative notes that Large Language Models (LLMs) are exceptionally well-suited for coding because source code, at its core, is just very well-structured text, which is exactly what these models excel at generating. Because of this tight match between need and capability, the programming industry is ser

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No One Knows Anything About AI

news.ycombinator.com Study Hacks 2025-12-26 02:08:09

I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point toward two very different conclusions. The first narrative notes that Large Language Models (LLMs) are exceptionally well-suited for coding because source code, at its core, is just very well-structured text, which is exactly what these models excel at generating. Because of this tight match between need and capability, the programming industry is ser

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How to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 18:15:04

It's weirdly difficult to get rid of old laptops, desktops and printers sitting around your house -- even when it's been over a decade since you last plugged them in. But recycling old tech is easier than you think and can free up a lot of space for you. A CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto old, unused devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. The survey also found that 19% of respondents just toss old devices in the trash -- which i

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I replaced my work PC with this Dell laptop, and it was one of my best decisions

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-02 21:00:49

Alienware 18 Area-51 Laptop ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 18 Area-51 retails for $3,199. It is a gaming laptop that delivers an unbelievable performance thanks to its powerful hardware and equally powerful cooling system. Traveling with the computer will prove difficult because of its weight; you'll also have to pay quite a bit for the system. View now at Dell View now at Best Buy more buying choices Alienware 18 Area-51 is a very fitting name for this computer because it is out of this

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Latest Tech News

Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

Need to Recycle an Old Laptop or Printer? Here's Where to Take It

IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

40 Years of the Amiga

40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre

40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore

LLM Inflation

Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

When Disney Went Digital

PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone

Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

Scientists Just Launched the First Quantum Computer Into Space

Apple's USB-C Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is $20 off right now

Startup and Nobel laureate collaborate to create GPU financial exchange

Introduction to Computer Music

Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook

ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

You Can Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free. Here's Where to Take Them

Phishing Email Alert

Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

The best all-in-one computers of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

Two narratives about AI

No One Knows Anything About AI

How to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free

I replaced my work PC with this Dell laptop, and it was one of my best decisions

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