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> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me ho…

This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somew…

Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice

One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs…

One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators d…

Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers

It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed readi…

I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobil…

Daft! And very strangely true. I recognised several moments and events in the story

I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet …

Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!

At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They fo…

Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which buffe…

Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get …

Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of us…

Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world…

Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to …

I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.

This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…

In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story

I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with oth…

I wrote sound-sampling software for Atari using Action! and Mac/65 by OSS, using my own DAC+ADC hardware (8-bit of course). They were fast tools, it was very productive.