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CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

news.ycombinator.com Tekla S. Perry 2025-07-18 10:22:15

The year before his death in 1994, Gary Kildall—inventor of the early microcomputer operating system CP/M—wrote a draft of a memoir, “Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry.” He distributed copies to family and friends, but died before realizing his plans to release it as a book. This week, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, with the permission of Kildall’s children, released the first portion of that memoir. You can downlo

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CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download

news.ycombinator.com Tekla S. Perry 2025-07-19 21:22:15

The year before his death in 1994, Gary Kildall—inventor of the early microcomputer operating system CP/M—wrote a draft of a memoir, “Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry.” He distributed copies to family and friends, but died before realizing his plans to release it as a book. This week, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, with the permission of Kildall’s children, released the first portion of that memoir. You can downlo

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The crypto industry got what it paid for

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-07-19 09:37:44

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The crypto industry is beginning to see a return on one of its most prescient investments: Donald Trump. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed three bills that industry supporters believe will bring more legitimacy and predictability to the digital currency space — and

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US passes first major national crypto legislation

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-20 01:17:14

US passes first major national crypto legislation 43 minutes ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country's first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year's election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump. The bill sets up a regulatory regime for so-called stablecoins, a kind

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AI-generated music is going viral. Should the music industry be worried?

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-07-22 05:27:19

The growing prevalence of AI music has caused a stir across the music industry, according to Keith Mullin, head of management and music industry course leader at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Da-kuk | E+ | Getty Images With more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, psychedelic rock band The Velvet Sundown is raking in thousands of dollars and has the music industry asking itself tough questions 一 and they're not about whether the '70s are coming back. The "band" was recen

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Does the UK video games industry have a class problem?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-22 09:08:25

Does the UK video games industry have a class problem? 53 minutes ago Share Save Laura Cress BBC News Share Save BBC Declan Cassidy is the CEO of Into Games "I'm scared for the future of games," says Chris Goodyear. "It could end up going the way that theatre has, and become a very privileged thing." At one of the UK's largest conferences for video game developers, social class was on the agenda. The concern raised by Chris, a producer working to highlight accessibility barriers in the indust

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Circle stock drops after House blocks key procedural vote on stablecoin legislation

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-07-25 09:50:21

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Circle shares slid on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to clear a key procedural hurdle that would have teed up votes on long-awaited crypto-related bills. The move dealt a major setback to the digital asset industry, which had framed this week as a turning point for regulatory clarity in Washington, D.C. Circle, the stablecoin issuer that's soared in value

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The best student discounts we found for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-26 13:01:27

You’re probably using Adobe products if you’re studying anything related to digital art or design. Adobe Creative Cloud is the industry standard in this space but the entire suite of programs is quite expensive at $70 per month. Thankfully, Adobe has education pricing for students that drops the entire creative suite to $30 per month for the first year. That includes the big programs like Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC along with Lightroom CC, Premiere Pro CC, Adobe XD and more. After your fir

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Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-08-01 12:32:32

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering him to leave his employer and switch over to support the company’s AI efforts, and they were offering a sizable salary package to do so. But he wasn’t so sure. The engineer, who works for a startup that was

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Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-05 01:40:20

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. In a 2024 interview wit

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Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

technologyreview.com Daniel F. Brunner 2025-08-07 05:00:00

The US and Europe were the dominant public funders of fusion energy research and are home to many of the world’s pioneering private fusion efforts. The West has consequently developed many of the basic technologies that will make fusion power work. But in the past five years China’s support of fusion energy has surged, threatening to allow the country to dominate the industry. The industrial base available to support China’s nascent fusion energy industry could enable it to climb the learning c

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Two and a Half Years in GameDev

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 07:31:51

About 3 years ago, I joined a GameDev company, without any prior experience making games or hands-on exposure to this industry. Statistically, this time is not even enough’s to release a single game. But during that window, I was lucky to meet many talented people deeply involved in modern GameDev, who shared with me their career journeys, war tales, and anecdotes, and helped me shape my vision. One unexpected outcome of this switch was that many friends and former colleagues reached out to me

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Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

news.ycombinator.com Alberto Romero 2025-08-09 00:33:18

I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isn’t to be definitive, just to spark a conversation. What follows is a set of expanded thoughts on those problems, in no particular order. Disclaimer: Not everyone in AI is as bad as I’m making them sound. I’m flattening a wildly diverse field into a single tone, which is obviously reductive. People are dif

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I'm Losing All Trust in the AI Industry

news.ycombinator.com Alberto Romero 2025-08-09 05:33:18

I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isn’t to be definitive, just to spark a conversation. What follows is a set of expanded thoughts on those problems, in no particular order. Disclaimer: Not everyone in AI is as bad as I’m making them sound. I’m flattening a wildly diverse field into a single tone, which is obviously reductive. People are dif

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I want to leave tech: what do I do?

news.ycombinator.com Conjure Utopia 2025-08-10 20:58:49

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even a product manager. Let’s say you want to leave, change career, and do something more meaningful with your skills. Your motivations may vary: you feel the tech industry produces nothing of value, or maybe you have the legitimate suspicion that what you build helps bomb innocent people somewhere. You might want to leave because of the individualistic culture tha

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What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 08:16:08

It's been 23 years since the first Battlefield game, and the video game industry is nearly unrecognizable to anyone who was immersed in it then. Many people who loved the games of that era have since become frustrated with where AAA (big budget) games have ended up. Today, publisher EA is in full production on the next Battlefield title—but sources close to the project say it has faced culture clashes, ballooning budgets, and major disruptions that have left many team members fearful that parts

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US chipmakers could see bigger tax credits if Trump’s spending bill passes

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-15 09:57:47

In Brief The semiconductor industry could see a big tax benefit if the Trump administration is able to pass the current version of its spending bill. The latest draft of the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which already passed in the Senate, will raise the tax credit for chipmakers building manufacturing plants in the U.S. from 25% to 35%, as originally reported by CNBC. Companies including Intel, TSMC, and Micron Technology could reap these benefits if they continue to expand t

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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia – ACM Sigops

news.ycombinator.com Vijay Janapa Reddi 2025-08-19 20:48:45

The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research funding. The directive, issued with little explanation, has created chaos across the academic research ecosystem, part of a broader trend Nature described as an unprecedented assault. Before we go any furthe

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Moratorium on state AI laws set to pass, with some exemptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-20 13:52:37

If there's one thing the AI industry needs it's more regulation. Yet, soon individual US states might not have much say in what AI companies can and can't do thanks to Trump pleasing senators. That's right, an AI-friendly amendment to the president's tax legislation is on the road to approval — despite concerns that its shoehorning is illegal. The clause would prevent states from legislating the AI industry for five years, Bloomberg reports. Only states that cooperate will be allowed to access s

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

news.ycombinator.com Luc Rinaldi 2025-08-20 10:06:31

Rollie Pemberton was barely a teenager when he started rapping. His hometown, Edmonton, didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene in the early aughts, so he honed his craft online. He plugged an old-school microphone into his mom’s desktop computer, recorded a few verses, later turned them into tracks, and sent them out into the burgeoning music blogosphere. Within a few years, he’d adopted the emcee name Cadence Weapon and earned a reputation as a shrewd critic and sharp lyricist. This work didn’t p

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The AI Hype Index: AI-powered toys are coming

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-08-27 12:44:46

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. AI agents might be the toast of the AI industry, but they’re still not that reliable. That’s why Yoshua Bengio, one of the world’s leading AI experts, is creating his own nonprofit dedicated to guarding against deceptive agents. Not only can they mislead you, but new research suggests that the weak

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Bitcoin price rises as Israel-Iran ceasefire begins, and Senate unveils major crypto bill

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith 2025-08-27 21:16:57

Crypto prices, including bitcoin , rose on Tuesday after President Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. By midday Tuesday, bitcoin had passed the $105,000 level, ether jumped back above the $2,400 mark, and XRP climbed to $2.19. The risk-on action in the markets, which also saw stocks rally on the Mideast de-escalation, wasn't the only source of momentum, as Republican senators unveiled a major bill to set the rules of the road for crypto. Specifically, the legislation would de

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The Download: Namibia’s hydrogen hopes, and fixing AI evaluation

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-29 13:10:00

Factories have used fossil fuels to process iron ore for three centuries, and the climate has paid a heavy price: According to the International Energy Agency, the steel industry today accounts for 8% of carbon dioxide emissions. But it turns out there is a less carbon-intensive alternative: using hydrogen. Unlike coal or natural gas, which release carbon dioxide as a by-product, this process releases water. And if the hydrogen itself is “green,” the climate impact of the entire process will

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Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-29 22:00:47

Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI. Dubbed AIFF 2025, it was an event precariously balancing between two different worlds. The festival was hosted by Runway, a company that produces models and tools for generating images and videos. In panels and press briefings, a curated list of industry professionals made the case for Hollywood to embrace AI tools. In private meetings with industry professionals, I gained a strong sense that there is already a

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 20:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late

wired.com Justin Ling 2025-09-01 05:00:00

In the span of just a few years, drones have become instrumental in warfare. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, and elsewhere have shown how autonomous vehicles have become a quintessential part of modern combat. It’s a fact that Taiwan knows all too well. The island nation, fearing imminent invasion from China, has both the need, know-how, and industry necessary to build a robust and advanced drone program. Yet Taiwan, which has set an ambitious target of producing 180,000 d

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 01:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 17:02:24

Just a note of warning from personal experience. Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation. They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere in this industry during your entire career without violating confidentiality with the technical and business instincts you bring to that domain. It do

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Computing’s Top 30: Dwith Chenna

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-04 20:00:25

For Dwith Chenna, actively engaging with professional organizations isn’t an obligation, it’s enlightened self-interest. Through this work with IEEE Computer Society and other organizations, he regularly connects with and learns from other professionals that he’d never encounter in daily life; through his work with conferences and publications, he engages with the latest research in his field, which feeds his own cutting-edge interests in creating solutions in computer vision, deep learning, an

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-09-07 22:48:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the first to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto tokens that are pegged to the value of the US dollar.

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Latest Tech News

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download

The crypto industry got what it paid for

US passes first major national crypto legislation

AI-generated music is going viral. Should the music industry be worried?

Does the UK video games industry have a class problem?

Circle stock drops after House blocks key procedural vote on stablecoin legislation

The best student discounts we found for 2025

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought

Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

Two and a Half Years in GameDev

Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

I'm Losing All Trust in the AI Industry

I want to leave tech: what do I do?

What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.

US chipmakers could see bigger tax credits if Trump’s spending bill passes

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia – ACM Sigops

Moratorium on state AI laws set to pass, with some exemptions

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

The AI Hype Index: AI-powered toys are coming

Bitcoin price rises as Israel-Iran ceasefire begins, and Senate unveils major crypto bill

The Download: Namibia’s hydrogen hopes, and fixing AI evaluation

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression

Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late

Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

Computing’s Top 30: Dwith Chenna

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

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