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The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 03:46:55

2019-12-11 SCSI command 0x0d seems to be explained now: Søren Roug has spotted SASI command 0x0d in the manual for the Xebec S1410 diskcontroller: It returns the length of burst errors corrected with ECC. That matches the CMD_CORRECTION Tollef found. Thanks everybody! 2019-12-08 About that 0x0d SCSI command... My good friend Tollef Fog Heen replied on twitter that this source file on github calls the command CMD_CORRECTION. That github repository contains a NeXT Station emulation. The

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New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-09 10:45:48

Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from. As only the third interstellar object ever discovered, 3I/ATLAS offers a rare chance to study remnants of solar systems beyond our own, briefly bringing the distant galaxy within reach. But before we get into the new study, imagine the Milky Way as a kind of celestial sandwich: Inside is a thin d

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-03 15:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-12 00:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 00:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 18:30:45

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a magnetic head reads or writes data on the disk. If you've ever wondered why the "save" icon looks the way

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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 18:30:04

So much for heliocentrism. An international team of astronomers using observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets out there that're capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a star. These planets would be the center of something like a mini version of our solar system where other, smaller planets revolve around it. But without the light of a star, these systems, if they exist, would go largely overlooked by our telescopes, lost to

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New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 18:08:48

Most adhesives can’t stick to wet surfaces because water and other fluids disrupt the adhesive’s bonding mechanisms. This problem, though, has been beautifully solved by evolution in remora suckerfish, which use an adhesive disk on top of their heads to attach to animals like dolphins, sharks, and even manta rays. A team of MIT scientists has now taken a close look at these remora disks and reverse-engineered them. “Basically, we looked at nature for inspiration,” says Giovanni Traverso, a prof

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More than two hard disks in DOS

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-12-06 11:19:27

Investigating the rather odd behavior of the Microsoft OS/2 1.21 disk driver led me to Compaq and their EXTDISK.SYS driver. While experimenting with various setups, I realized that DOS versions older than 5.0 do not support more than two hard disks exposed by the system’s BIOS, and will in fact quite likely hang early during boot-up if there are “too many” hard disks. This seems to have been one of the many things that “everyone knew” back in the day, similar to the fact that DOS versions older

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James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-05 14:30:53

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time look at how our solar system would've formed some 4.6 billion years ago. The findings, published as a study in the journal Nature, are the first time we're seeing such an early stage of planets being formed anywhere in the cosmos. "We've captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars,"

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Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-10 04:40:08

A comet unlike any seen before has fixated astronomers around the world. An observatory in Hawaii has unveiled the most stunning image of this ancient interstellar visitor yet. The Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, recently snapped a close-up of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever discovered. The telescope’s highly sensitive Multi-Object Spectrograph captured the comet’s compact coma—a cloud of gas and dust surrounding its icy nucleus—in striking detail. 3I/ATLAS is inbound t

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Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-15 18:53:08

An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as 'Diskstation,' which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Elicius' was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized

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Synology masters both ease and control with BeeStation and DiskStation

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-23 10:30:32

Synology is synonymous with NAS, or network-attached storage, and there’s good reason for that. The DiskStation line of products is reliable and robust with a great community that supports consumer and professional use cases. More recently, Synology has reached beyond traditional NAS solutions with BeeStation, a private and family cloud storage solution. I’ve recently been testing the BeeStation Plus, a somewhat less capable, but much more approachable, product, and the DiskStation DS925+, a tra

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Prime Day Is the Prime Time to Add a SanDisk Memory Card to Your Camera or Laptop for Peanuts

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-01-26 12:50:02

It’s not here quite yet but the day may come when SanDisk enters that rarified category of brands that are synonymous with their entire product category, like Kleenex or Band-Aids or Popsicles. When you think of a SD card to add to your camera, laptop, or other device, you think of SanDisk, and Prime Day is a great time to think of adding a SanDisk or two to your tech collection now that the 256GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II model is just $53. SanDisk did not come by its stellar reputation lightly.

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This Samsung 2TB External SSD Costs Almost Nothing on Prime Day, Only $0.055 per GB

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-01-28 04:55:27

SanDisk is the brand of choice for external SSDs whose prices sell out by the truckload during major sale events. This Prime Day, Amazon is offering record-breaking deals on all storage densities in the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD line, and they are so good that it’s creating waves amongst geeks. The best-seller of the 2TB model is available for only $119 (down from $209), which is an astonishing $0.055 per gig. The 1TB one is also not to be overlooked at $77 (down from $129), or about $0.077

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SanDisk 1TB SSD Gets Prime Day Slammed, Now at Its Lowest Price on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-02 04:54:28

SanDisk has long been the gold standard for consumer SSDs and Prime Day is always the best time to upgrade your storage with one of these high-performance drives. Amazon holds this event as its biggest sale of the year because it offers massive discounts on prime tech products. These deals are so much of a bargain that inventory does not typically last long, so it’s wise to act quickly while supplies last. This year, the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD in 1TB is now priced at just $99 which is a s

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After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-16 04:32:07

On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display for 27 years. While Pierre Dandumont first documented the JPEG image itself in 2014, the method to view it on the computer remained a mystery until Brown's reverse engineering work revealed that users must format a RAM disk with the text "secret ROM image

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I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure and it exceeded my expectations

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-24 02:45:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. View now at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sh

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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

news.ycombinator.com Doug Brown 2026-02-25 22:06:45

I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the Power Mac G3’s ROM. This ROM was used in the beige desktop, minitower, and all-in-one G3 models from 1997 through 1999. As I write this post in mid-2025, I’m having a really diff

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I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - it made a big impact on my workflow

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-03-01 06:28:08

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge

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I tested the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - here's why it's the perfect PC accessory for me

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-03-03 14:52:03

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge

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Apple introduces ASIF disk image format in macOS 26 Tahoe for faster virtual storage

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-13 18:33:00

What just happened? Apple's latest update for Macs, macOS 26 Tahoe, introduces a significant leap forward in disk image technology with the debut of the ASIF format – a development that could reshape how users and developers handle virtual storage on Apple silicon Macs. For years, disk images have been a staple for Mac users, enabling everything from encrypted file storage to virtual machine management. However, these images have long suffered from sluggish performance, especially when encrypti

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Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 08:45:03

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

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Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 18:45:03

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

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Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 06:03:52

A delve into CD ripping and metadata As of late, I've been getting into growing my music collection by buying and ripping CDs. That was all fine and dandy until I discovered that one of my albums, Echo Afternoon by Finish Ticket, was slightly off. On the left, the artist's Bandcamp page. On the right, my ripped files in VLC. There are three problems here: One track has changed name - Raincloud has turned into "Rainclous". Nothing Coming Soon should be 41 seconds long, but is instead 4 minute

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Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? and Why Is One Track Missing?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 07:03:52

A delve into CD ripping and metadata As of late, I've been getting into growing my music collection by buying and ripping CDs. That was all fine and dandy until I discovered that one of my albums, Echo Afternoon by Finish Ticket, was slightly off. On the left, the artist's Bandcamp page. On the right, my ripped files in VLC. There are three problems here: One track has changed name - Raincloud has turned into "Rainclous". Nothing Coming Soon should be 41 seconds long, but is instead 4 minute

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macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

news.ycombinator.com John Woods 2026-03-17 07:49:40

Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the important new features introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe is a new disk image format that can achieve near-native speeds: ASIF, documented here. This has been detailed as a major improvement in lightweight virtualisation, where i

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Latest Tech News

The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems

New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

More than two hard disks in DOS

James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

Synology masters both ease and control with BeeStation and DiskStation

Prime Day Is the Prime Time to Add a SanDisk Memory Card to Your Camera or Laptop for Peanuts

This Samsung 2TB External SSD Costs Almost Nothing on Prime Day, Only $0.055 per GB

SanDisk 1TB SSD Gets Prime Day Slammed, Now at Its Lowest Price on Amazon

After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure and it exceeded my expectations

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - it made a big impact on my workflow

I tested the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - here's why it's the perfect PC accessory for me

Apple introduces ASIF disk image format in macOS 26 Tahoe for faster virtual storage

Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? and Why Is One Track Missing?

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

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