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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 12:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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When Computer Magazines Were Everywhere

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-09-19 00:30:26

In the 80s, one of my favorite pastimes was reading computer magazines. Yes, I was and still am a nerd. I still spend far too much time collecting (and reading) retro magazines. Today I almost certainly have more retro computer magazines than you do. By my count, I now have nearly 700 issues of various computer magazines from the 70s, 80s and 90s! Just a small sample of my retro magazine collection! Looking back at the 80s, it was a great joy to get a magazine in the mail. As a young teenager

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Stop Letting That Old Computer Gather Dust. Here's Where to Recycle It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 22:00:00

When an old laptop or printer finally gives out, the biggest question is often, "What do I do with it now?" Tossing electronics in the trash is bad for the environment and can even be illegal. It's no wonder a recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us have old, unused tech just sitting in our closets and basements. The good news is that recycling your e-waste is simpler than you might think. You don't have to hunt down a special facility; major retailers like Best Buy and Staples make

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How much RAM do you really need in 2025? I broke it down for Mac and Windows users

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-20 04:00:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways RAM allows computers run fast and optimally. 16GB is now the standard for PCs and laptops. Heavy users may need more RAM. Know when to upgrade. I used to struggle when shopping for a new computer. Over time, I learned to narrow things down to what I call the "performance trifecta" -- three main components you should be mindful of when buying a laptop or desktop: processor, storage drive, and RAM. Th

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Stop Letting That Old Compute Gather Dust. Here's Where to Recycle It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 13:00:07

When an old laptop or printer finally gives out, the biggest question is often, "What do I do with it now?" Tossing electronics in the trash is bad for the environment and can even be illegal. It's no wonder a recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us have old, unused tech just sitting in our closets and basements. The good news is that recycling your e-waste is simpler than you might think. You don't have to hunt down a special facility; major retailers like Best Buy and Staples make

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Mother of All Demos (1968)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:18:19

SUMMARY Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect. STATEMENTS The Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute has pursued computer systems that enhance intellectual work by providing instant responsiveness to user actions throughout the day. The demo features a computer mouse that controls

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Mother of All Demos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 05:18:19

SUMMARY Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect. STATEMENTS The Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute has pursued computer systems that enhance intellectual work by providing instant responsiveness to user actions throughout the day. The demo features a computer mouse that controls

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Apple's Mac mini M4 is up to $110 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 05:34:38

The Apple Mac mini M4 desktop computer is on sale via Amazon right now. This brings the price of the entry-level version, with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, down to $499. The model with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is down to $689, which is a discount of $110. You can also pick up one with 24GB of RAM for $904. This is the model that came out at the tail-end of 2024 and represented the first major redesign of the product in ten years. We reviewed a version of this computer and called it

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Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 13:44:55

Consider the cul-de-sac. It leads off the main street past buildings of might-have-been to a dead-end disconnected from the beaten path. Computing history, of course, is filled with such terminal diversions, most never to be fully realized, and many for good reason. Particularly when it comes to user interfaces and how humans interact with computers, a lot of wild ideas deserved the obscure burials they got. But some deserved better. Nearly every aspiring interface designer believed the way we

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Computer Vision and Healthcare: How Technology Provides a Glimpse Into the Future

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-24 17:00:11

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision in the healthcare industry continues to progress along a steep upward trajectory. Advanced AI technologies enable machines to interpret and analyze medical images, videos, and other data with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Computer vision combines that functionality with deep learning networks to enhance diagnostic precision, automate routine medical tasks, and support clinical decision-making. The evolving capabilities of computer v

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Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:22:25

I’ve seen a couple of examples recently of how super simple “bots” are replacing bits of user interface. I feel like this is a trend connected with the return of VR. I am in love with the virtual events platform Skittish which is a 3D cartoon world (where everyone is a low-poly animal) for running multiplayer online parties, conferences, workshops etc. RECOMMENDATION: Hit the “Try it now” button in the top right of their homepage and run around the sandbox. Talk to the other animals! Go into t

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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

wired.com Ben Brubaker 2025-09-24 21:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy beaver numbers. They form a sequence that’s intimately tied to one of the most notoriously difficult questions in theoretical computer science. Determining the values of busy beaver numbers is a daunting challenge that has attracted a cult

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Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-25 13:01:41

This week, OpenAI and Oracle shocked the markets with a surprise $300 billion, five-year agreement, part of a surge of new business that sent the cloud provider’s stock skyrocketing. But maybe the markets shouldn’t have been taken by surprise. The deal is a reminder that, despite Oracle’s legacy status, the company still plays a major role in AI infrastructure. On the OpenAI side, the agreement was more revealing than the lack of details suggest. For one, the startup’s willingness to pay so muc

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VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 00:14:50

Applying the scaling laws to build VaultGemma The Gemma models are designed with responsibility and safety at their core. This makes them a natural foundation for developing a production-quality, DP-trained model like VaultGemma. Algorithmic advancements: Training at scale The scaling laws we derived above represent an important first step towards training a useful Gemma model with DP. We used the scaling laws to determine both how much compute we needed to train a compute-optimal 1B paramete

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Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 06:00:49

Consider the cul-de-sac. It leads off the main street past buildings of might-have-been to a dead-end disconnected from the beaten path. Computing history, of course, is filled with such terminal diversions, most never to be fully realized, and many for good reason. Particularly when it comes to user interfaces and how humans interact with computers, a lot of wild ideas deserved the obscure burials they got. But some deserved better. Nearly every aspiring interface designer believed the way we

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IEEE Computer Society Announces 2025-2026 Emerging Tech Grant Recipients

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-09-28 08:04:56

Bridging Neuroscience and AI to Transform Brainwaves into Real-Time Multilingual Speech for the Voiceless – This project will explore the development of a non-invasive brain-computer interface system that translates brain signals into multilingual text and speech using advanced electroencephalography (EEG) processing, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and neural text-to-speech (TTS) technologies. It aims to empower individuals with speech impairments through accessible and incl

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Computing’s Top 30: Upal Mahbub

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-28 15:00:11

When he’s not developing hardware-efficient computer vision solutions for extended reality (XR) or creating novel facial landmark detection algorithms for mobile devices, you might find Upal Mahbub writing poetry in Bengali, creating “zentangle” art, or editing Dorpon, the literary magazine he publishes. Or? You might check the list of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024, where you will definitely find him. Mahbub is a staff engineer in the Multimedia R&D Lab at Qualcomm. In

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OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-30 09:00:34

In Brief Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five years, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI would start purchasing this compute in 2027. If the WSJ’s reporting is correct, this

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IEEE Software Receives 2025 Award for Publication Excellence from APEX

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-09-30 19:00:10

IEEE Software has won another Publication Excellence award from APEX, a leading annual competition for communication and publishers. The IEEE team is incredibly honored and excited to continue our mission of keeping IEEE members informed on major trends and developments in technology, engineering, and science. The distinguished 2025 APEX Awards were in the Magazines, Journals & Tabloids category for the issue “Well-being for Resilience — Developers Thrive!” (Jul.-Aug. 2024). As a previous APEX

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Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:26:45

Ben-Hur on a computer screen 05 Set, 2025 Ben-Hur, 1925 I kept looking, completely mesmerized. The teacher hit the key again, and a scene from a movie played. It was a chariot race from Ben-Hur. On a computer screen. It felt wrong. It felt like magic. The clip was less than five seconds. "One day, everyone will watch movies on computers", he said. In the 1990s, in Brazil, computers were suddenly all the rage. Fernando Henrique Cardoso's "Plano Real" had managed to do what everyone thought i

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 16:47:00

Once that old laptop or printer stops working, you need to get rid of it. However, that can be easier said than done. Throwing it in the trash will only lead to more items that could be recycled slowly deteriorating in a landfill, and depending on the device in question could be illegal. That's probably why a recent CNET survey found that almost a third of US adults still have old, unused electronics hanging around the house. The good news? Recycling your old devices is easier than ever. Major

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William James at CERN (1995)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 05:07:13

William James at CERN Some Examples of Selection in Minds and Computers 1. William James Principles of Psychology This is obviously true of action. Whatever views your views on free will, it is indubitable that differing options occur to us, that we compare them, that we prefer some to others, that eventually we elect one and dismiss the rest. More interestingly, James describes the role of selection in perception, and finds it at every level of neural and mental life. The sense organs, to b

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I should have loved electrical engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 13:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

Topics: computer engineering just physics software

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This M4 Mac Mini Is Small, Fast and Surprisingly Affordable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 00:01:00

I bought the M4 Mac Mini after reading CNET laptop expert Joshua Goldman's review of the tiny machine. I was looking for a computer that would increase my productivity and better organize my workflow. Since then, I've found it to be the best value for money among Apple's lineup. For less than $600, you can get a more powerful computer than the $999 MacBook Air. The M4 Mac Mini, Apple's smallest computer, is an easy recommendation for me since it's one of CNET's picks for the best desktop comput

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Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:55:24

Project Goals Our goal is to create a user environment designed from the ground up around the things people do with computers: create, collaborate, and learn. Without implementation details like files and operating-system processes polluting the computer's UI, Étoilé users will be able to: have revision history for all objects in the system collaborate with other people on any type of document (text, drawing, code, etc.) shape their own workflow by combining the provided Services use a sys

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I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 20:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

Topics: computer engineering just physics software

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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 15:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 01:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Quantum computing startup IQM raises $320 million as investors pile into the tech

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-12 21:00:01

European startup IQM is aiming to build powerful quantum computers to rival the likes of Google and IBM. Quantum computing firm IQM says it's raised $320 million of fresh funding to ramp up investments in technology and commercial growth. The startup, which is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, was founded in 2018 by a team of scientists with the aim of building powerful quantum computers in Europe like the machines companies such as Google and IBM are building in the U.S. Quantum computers are

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Last-Minute Labor Day Deal: The M4 Mac Mini Offers the Best Value I've Seen From an Apple Product, and It's $54 Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 09:23:00

Labor Day deal: With concerns over tariffs and price increases, Labor Day offers greater discounts on a ton of items, including top tech like the Apple M4 Mac Mini. You can still pick one up -- even though Labor Day is technically over -- for$545 at Amazon . This powerful computer already offers great value, so saving $54 is a bonus. If you were planning on picking one up, we suggest you make the most of this last-minute Labor Day deal and buy sooner rather than later. I bought the M4 Mac Mini

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Latest Tech News

Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

When Computer Magazines Were Everywhere

Stop Letting That Old Computer Gather Dust. Here's Where to Recycle It for Free

How much RAM do you really need in 2025? I broke it down for Mac and Windows users

Stop Letting That Old Compute Gather Dust. Here's Where to Recycle It for Free

Mother of All Demos (1968)

Mother of All Demos

Apple's Mac mini M4 is up to $110 off right now

Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

Computer Vision and Healthcare: How Technology Provides a Glimpse Into the Future

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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise

VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

IEEE Computer Society Announces 2025-2026 Emerging Tech Grant Recipients

Computing’s Top 30: Upal Mahbub

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

IEEE Software Receives 2025 Award for Publication Excellence from APEX

Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen

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

William James at CERN (1995)

I should have loved electrical engineering

This M4 Mac Mini Is Small, Fast and Surprisingly Affordable

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I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

Quantum computing startup IQM raises $320 million as investors pile into the tech

Last-Minute Labor Day Deal: The M4 Mac Mini Offers the Best Value I've Seen From an Apple Product, and It's $54 Off

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