Технологии

The first Unix Programmer’s Manual, released in 1971 (free PDF)

MIT CSAIL marked the anniversary on X: Bell Labs released the first Unix Programmer’s Manual in November 1971. The post links a free PDF of the third edition, and credits Diomidis Spinellis (@CoolSWEng) for the pointer. The manual set the pattern that man pages still follow. One short page per command, in the same order: […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

The early history of the UNIX “more” command

Dan Halbert, writing on danhalbert.org, tells how he came to write the Unix more command in 1978 as a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley. The piece first ran on comp.society.folklore in 1994 and then in The ANALYTICAL ENGINE. Berkeley already had a small program called cr3 that printed 24 lines and rang the terminal […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

GNUstep Desktop: a NeXT user interface for modern Linux

GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is a Linux desktop environment that gives you a NeXT/OpenStep-like experience. It runs on the GNUstep framework, which is an open implementation of the OpenStep API in Objective-C, and pulls together apps and utilities the GNUstep community has written over the years. The code is compact enough that one person can follow […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for public domain works #ArtTuesday

Jason Kottke, writing at kottke.org, points to Arkivism, a search and visual discovery engine for public domain works. It pulls together millions of items that anyone can use. The collections come from the Smithsonian, The Met, NASA, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum and others. Public domain means the copyright […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Developing retro-GUIs for Win3.11 and OS/2

Chris, writing at chrisdevblog.com, built GUI apps for Windows 3.11 and OS/2 Warp 3 to control his microcontroller projects on real period hardware. He started with Borland Delphi 1 from 1995, the first and last Delphi that made 16-bit Windows programs. That worked right away, so he switched to Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 from 1993, […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

OpenAI introduces program to reduce AI data center energy demand during peak hours

The Grid Protectors Program applies load shedding, a technique in use since the 1970s, to data centers.

Tom's Hardware · EN

Windows 11 8GB RAM configurations get a performance boost

Microsoft claims that it has made drastic improvements to the performance of Windows 11 while using 8GB of RAM.

Tom's Hardware · EN

The Maker’s Toolbox: Bambu Lab H3C 3D Printer Review

Let's take a look at Bambu Lab's highly anticipated new tool-changing 3D printer: the H3C.

Hackster.io · EN

There's a Microchip in Your Toothbrush, and It Can Unlock Your PC

Circuit Helper hacked the NFC chip hidden inside a Philips Sonicare toothbrush head and turned it into a key to unlock a PC.

Hackster.io · EN

Harmonic revenues break beyond Comcast and Spectrum

In further evidence that it is diversifying its broadband business, Harmonic said four customers topped 10% of Q3 revenues, expanding from its two marquee customers – Comcast and Spectrum.

Light Reading · EN

Privacy's Defenders Podcast: The Secret Room

The government’s surveillance powers grew rapidly after Sept. 11, 2001, some in public view and some in secret. EFF suspected but couldn’t prove that the National Security Agency was spying on Americans' communications. The New York Times sat on a story about it for over a year, finally publishing it in December 2005. Then, in January 2006, a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein walked into EFF's office with a manila folder of documents that blew the story wide open. Welcome to the third episode of “Privacy’s Defenders,” a podcast about the people – lawyers, journalists, hackers, and other

EFF Deeplinks · EN

No, the study behind "76% of honey is fake" didn't find 76% fake honey

YouTuber Zackary Smigel was freaked out by the alarming online claim that 76% of supermarket honey is fake and found something better: the statistic itself has been badly abused. The 76% number traces back to a 2011 examination of 60 jars that found 76% contained no detectable pollen. — Read the rest The post No, the study behind "76% of honey is fake" didn't find 76% fake honey appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

The RNC's closing economic argument: however bad things are, Democrats are worse

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters responds to questions about the economy with a statement that his party is running against "communism." Republican leadership has not shown an understanding of communism, socialism, or really any economic model other than "grift." Asked about the claim that Republicans are out of touch, RNC chairman Joe Gruters didn't respond by arguing that the economy is doing great. — Read the rest The post The RNC's closing economic argument: however bad things are, Democrats are worse appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

Next year in Jerusalem, asshole!

Convicted felon and perpetual grifter Donald Trump has offered Americans an exit strategy I think we can all agree on. "If people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I'll move to Israel and become prime minister," he said Tuesday during a Fox & Friends call-in. — Read the rest The post Next year in Jerusalem, asshole! appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

Iowa can't keep Krampus out of its Capitol, judge rules

The state of Iowa rubber stamps religious groups' requests to hold events on the Capitol grounds. But for the last three years it has rejected the Satanic Temple's request to hold an event with caroling, coloring pages, making ornaments, and a Krampus costume contest. — Read the rest The post Iowa can't keep Krampus out of its Capitol, judge rules appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

These glasses turn silent mouth movements into text

A couple of Georgia Tech computer science students recently demonstrated a system that converts tongue and mouth movements into text. It uses eyeglasses that beam a radio signal into the user's head to measure changes inside the closed mouth. They say it's good for silently talking to AI chatbots in offices, libraries, and co-working spaces. — Read the rest The post These glasses turn silent mouth movements into text appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

Homer may never have said Ithaca was an island

A 3,000-year-old geography puzzle hides inside the Odyssey. YouTuber Honor Cargill-Martin examines an odd twist in the search for Homer's Ithaca: he may never actually have described Ithaca as an island at all. Researchers spent decades, longer than Odysseus's trip home, looking for an island. — Read the rest The post Homer may never have said Ithaca was an island appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

Keeping Claude running apparently requires nearly a trillion dollars

The money incinerator is just getting up to speed. Anthropic's amended IPO filing says the company now has $895.4 billion in purchase commitments and lease agreements; almost all of it is for compute and infrastructure. AI datacenter builders rejoice! Anthropic hopes to hold 3.5GW of capacity by the end of the year and double that volume next year, the report added, citing sources with knowledge of the situation. — Read the rest The post Keeping Claude running apparently requires nearly a trillion dollars appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

A Fukuoka okonomiyaki shop will give you its 10-pound pancake for free, if you can finish it in 40 minutes

When I was in Japan last month, we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant in Fukuoka, Japan. It was called Denko Sekka , in Canal City Hakata, a shopping center. ( Denko Sekka means "lightning fast.") Okonomiyaki is basically a kind of pancake or crepe cooked on a griddle. — Read the rest The post A Fukuoka okonomiyaki shop will give you its 10-pound pancake for free, if you can finish it in 40 minutes appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

87 Blog Posts To Learn About Nintendo Switch

Learn everything you need to know about Nintendo Switch via these 87 free HackerNoon blog posts.

Hacker Noon · EN

AI Agent Memory (Part 3): How Agents Turn Experience Into Reusable Skills

AI agents can remember feedback but still learn the wrong lessons. Explore how agents turn experience into Skills and why improving that process matters.

Hacker Noon · EN

Flip Phones, AI Hype, and Smart Glasses: What Readers Want Control Over

Flip phones, workplace AI, the hype test and smart glasses bans: four HackerNoon polls show readers want more control over the tech around them.

Hacker Noon · EN

How I Used a Stock Market Theory to Predict Cellular Network Behavior

A wireless researcher applies Elliott wave mathematics — born in stock markets — to predict cellular handoffs, and shares what the experiment revealed.

Hacker Noon · EN

How We Stabilized a Bazel CI Runner by Fixing Resource Limits and Container Cleanup

Bazel builds kept getting OOM-killed on a CI runner whose config promised 25 CPUs it did not have. How hard cgroup caps and three days of retuning settled the m

Hacker Noon · EN