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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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My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 19:38:35

In the fall of 2021, I found myself burnt out both professionally and personally. I was ready for a change. At NCR I was proud of what our team had accomplished - we built a group of over seventy people across four timezones, leading the journey to the cloud, and adopting better incident response and observability. The pandemic, however, had taken a great toll on me and my family. I spent much of it working long hours making sure restaurants could continue to conduct business and survive, at the

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What Happened to Egghead Software

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2025-10-25 07:18:18

Egghead Software was a US retail store that sold computer software from 1984 to 2001. It declared bankruptcy 24 years ago this week, on August 18, 2001, after an attempted transition to selling online failed. Egghead Software’s beginnings Egghead Software started in Bellevue, Washington in 1984 and moved eastward. Its founder, Victor D. Alhadeff, had a background in oil and gas, but when his old company went out of business in 1983, he needed a new idea. That came from shopping for software. A

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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 21:17:33

Feb 7, 2019 by Sahil Lavingia Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life's work. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. Needless to say, that didn't happen. Now, it may look like I am in an enviable position, running a prof

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AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-24 05:32:48

As a septuagenarian, my father’s story was typical of long-time AOL dial-up subscribers. His subscription was a security blanket. He was sure he didn’t need the dial-up component, but he didn’t want to risk losing access to his stock portfolio, investor forums, and email. His setup worked, and he could afford to keep paying the subscription he had dutifully paid for over a decade. With my help, we were able to migrate everything he used on AOL to the ad-supported and open internet that was alre

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RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-23 16:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at a congressional hearing at the end of June. Wearables, he said, are key to the MAHA — Make America Healthy Agai

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Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 09:37:00

Open source is usually seen as a win - for learning, visibility, and the community. But have you ever regretted it? Maybe it became a burden to maintain, attracted the wrong users, or got used in ways you didn’t expect. Would love to hear your experience - good or bad.

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I went on Airplane Mode for 8 days and these are the tools I missed most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 08:00:35

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority When I boarded a cruise ship last week with roughly thirty family members, I knew I’d be off the grid, but I also figured most of the important people in my life were with me anyway. What I didn’t realize was how much I rely on my phone for everything from logistics to late-night distraction. The ship technically offered Wi-Fi, but shoddy service made messages sporadic and Google searches impossible. Here’s what I missed the most. Do you utilize Airplane Mode

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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 17:58:12

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work can be frustrating enough — you know you’ll have to address all those issues at some point. But it’s even worse when you experience an issue and don’t have the option to solve it. A recent example of this for me was playing the game

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2025-12-20 17:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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Why I do programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 10:57:20

This piece was inspired by this post by Aaron Boodman. I remember myself as a calm, quiet kid, happiest when I had a bunch of wires in my hands. My parents used to give them to me as toys along with a screwdriver and an old cassette player I could take apart and try to put back together. I was three years old. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I loved the feeling of exploring the insides of a machine, trying to understand how it works. In first grade, I was introduced to MS-DOS and Logo with

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He Rewrote Everything in Rust – Then We Got Fired

news.ycombinator.com Threadsafe Diaries 2025-12-27 22:02:35

He Rewrote Everything in Rust — Then We Got Fired The day his code hit production, the graphs went flat. A month later, HR called us in. ThreadSafe Diaries 4 min read · Jun 12, 2025 -- 65 Share Before the Rewrite, We Were Drowning We were a team of six. Backend engineers juggling microservices, pipelines, devops patches, and postmortems that read like therapy notes. Our stack was typical for a fast-moving startup: Node.js microservices Redis queues AWS Lambdas MongoDB for almost everythi

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Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-02-06 17:08:25

Microsoft announced layoffs today affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and as part of the changes, more than 70 people will be let go at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios, according to a source familiar with the situation. The cuts were made on a call with Microsoft HR representatives this morning, and are hitting the “vast majority” of the studio. One source described the layoffs as leaving enough people behind to keep Forza Motorsport up and running. Managers at Turn 10 didn’t disc

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AT&T says ‘our network’ wasn’t to blame for Trump’s troubled conference call

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-10 21:27:56

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed “conference call platform.” Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T’s network during a “major conferenc

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Continuous Glucose Monitoring

news.ycombinator.com Adam Langley 2026-02-13 14:09:30

Continuous glucose monitoring has been a thing for a while. It's a probe that sits just inside your body and measures blood glucose levels frequently. Obviously this is most useful for type 1 diabetics, who need to regulate their blood glucose manually. (At this point, I would be amiss not to give a nod to the book Systems Medicine, which I think most readers would find fascinating. I can't judge whether it's correct or not, but it is a delightful exploration of a bunch of maladies from the per

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The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 05:50:24

For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X's network transparency so that only the X server had to run on the X terminal itself, with all of your terminal windows and other programs running on a server somewhere and just displaying on the X terminal. For a long time, using a big server and a lab full of X terminals was significantly cheaper than setting up a lab full of actual workstations (until inexp

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PC modding repository Nexus Mods has a new owner

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-03-10 11:04:40

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Nexus Mods, a website known for hosting mods for thousands of PC games, has been handed over to new ownership, according to former owner Robin “Dark0ne” Scott. “After months of meetings, face-to-face talks, and a whole lot of soul searching, I am thrilled to say that I truly believe I have found the exact right people for the task,” Scott says in a post published on Monday.

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Noted ‘Matrix’ Non-Cast Member Will Smith Admits He Also Turned Down ‘Inception’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-03-10 20:30:07

Will Smith’s many arenas of success have included sci-fi hits like Independence Day and the Men in Black films. But one of the most famous bits of Smith trivia is that he turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix. He admits it (and admits he regrets it), and he even made a music video just this year in the style of the Wachowskis’ classic, giving fans a glimpse at what might have been. And now he’s copping to another big sci-fi movie he passed on starring in: Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Smit

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Latest Tech News

Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen

My Failures Onboarding at Splunk

What Happened to Egghead Software

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (2019)

AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

I went on Airplane Mode for 8 days and these are the tools I missed most

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

Why I do programming

He Rewrote Everything in Rust – Then We Got Fired

Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

AT&T says ‘our network’ wasn’t to blame for Trump’s troubled conference call

Continuous Glucose Monitoring

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

PC modding repository Nexus Mods has a new owner

Noted ‘Matrix’ Non-Cast Member Will Smith Admits He Also Turned Down ‘Inception’

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