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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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40 Years of Turbo Pascal (theregister.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | theregister.com | frontpage

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2023 WebMD Wrapped (mcsweeneys.net)

a year ago | ohjeez | mcsweeneys.net | best

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A Windows Update bug is renaming everyone's printers to HP M101-M106 (xda-developers.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | xda-developers.com | best

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An Engineer's Battle Against Knowledge Loss (allegro.tech)

a year ago | ohjeez | allegro.tech | newest

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[flagged] Cory Doctorow: The real AI fight (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | ohjeez | pluralistic.net | best

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Ohio startup turns wind turbine blades into extraordinary park benches (electrek.co)

a year ago | ohjeez | electrek.co | newest

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Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out if AI can preach (themirror.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | themirror.com | newest

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Jason Lanier discussing the future of AI: It's all just real people (2012) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | youtube.com | newest

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Visual effects model design [video] (1980) (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ohjeez | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Tesla open sources all design and engineering of original Roadster (teslarati.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | teslarati.com | newest

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The Seven Meetings You Hate (randsinrepose.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | randsinrepose.com | newest

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One line of code caused a $60M loss (engineercodex.substack.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | substack.com | frontpage

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Atari 2600 review: Gaming like it's 1977 again (cnn.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | cnn.com | newest

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My process when starting a new job (amyhupe.co.uk)

a year ago | ohjeez | amyhupe.co.uk | newest

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RIP SF/F author Michael Bishop (1945-2023) (locusmag.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | locusmag.com | frontpage

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A Short History of Computers in the Movies (2013) (smartbear.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | smartbear.com | newest

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The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data (theconversation.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | theconversation.com | best

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The Canterbury Tales Project reads aloud the original manuscripts (sd-editions.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | sd-editions.com | newest

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The Odd History of Goalie Masks [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | youtube.com | newest

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OpenAI trying to poach Google workers with $10M pay packages (sfgate.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | sfgate.com | newest

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In memory of Bill Breen, Fast Company's first employee (fastcompany.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | fastcompany.com | newest

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Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33% (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | tomshardware.com | best

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Nvidia, Intel claim new LLM training speed records in new MLPerf 3.1 benchmark (venturebeat.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | venturebeat.com | newest

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Raiku Secures €8.8M to Innovate Eco-Friendly Alternative to Bubble Wrap (founderstoday.news)

a year ago | ohjeez | founderstoday.news | newest

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A 1983 look at the computer magazine wars (technologizer.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | technologizer.com | newest

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Cloudflare Outage: There's Plenty of Blame to Go Around (datacenterfrontier.com)

a year ago | ohjeez | datacenterfrontier.com | newest

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So you're surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is (aeon.co)

2 years ago | ohjeez | aeon.co | frontpage

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Tips for managing and motivating developers, with cat analogy at the end (2008) (computerworld.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | computerworld.com | newest

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NASA's robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand asteroids (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | theconversation.com | newest

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Failure.museum: Exploring Failed Ideas and Ventures (failure.museum)

2 years ago | ohjeez | failure.museum | newest

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NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II (nasa.gov)

2 years ago | ohjeez | nasa.gov | newest

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Carta's CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press (techcrunch.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | techcrunch.com | newest

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Olivetti Programma 101 (2010) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | youtube.com | frontpage

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Linux 6.6 brings new scheduler, file sharing and security (sdxcentral.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | sdxcentral.com | newest

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ANSI vs. ISO Keyboard Layout: Which One Is Better? (whatgeek.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | whatgeek.com | newest

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Blimps, Dirigibles, and Zeppelins: You Can't Keep a Good Idea Down (saturdayeveningpost.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | saturdayeveningpost.com | newest

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Virgin Atlantic Ends London-Austin Route, Cites Hurting Tech Sector (businessinsider.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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Everything I Know About the Tech Industry I Learned from Baseball (tomshardware.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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Could future AI crave a favorite food? (sciencedaily.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | sciencedaily.com | newest

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Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program? (mcsweeneys.net)

2 years ago | ohjeez | mcsweeneys.net | best

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Why MuckRock and POGO had to archive FOIAonline (muckrock.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | muckrock.com | frontpage

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Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying for People Addicted to Drugs (vice.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | vice.com | newest

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Species removed from endangered list due to extinction (cbsnews.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | cbsnews.com | frontpage

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Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality (sciencefocus.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | sciencefocus.com | newest

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The unfortunate demise of prosumer graphics cards (xda-developers.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | xda-developers.com | newest

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Tech Journalists You Should Follow – Who Aren't White Men Named Matthew (peopleofcolorintech.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | peopleofcolorintech.com | newest

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How to Turn Your Pile of Code into an Open Source Project (2013) (smartbear.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | smartbear.com | newest

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Twitter/X dropped headlines on news links. Why? (slate.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | slate.com | newest

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Scientists Say They've Invented a Speaker That "Mutes" Annoying People (futurism.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | futurism.com | frontpage

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BackerKit bans AI-generated content from its platform (polygon.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | polygon.com | newest

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How Far Afield Can SF/F "Fake Swearing" Get Before You Feel Uncomfortable? (thestopgap.net)

2 years ago | ohjeez | thestopgap.net | newest

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Designing Databases for Performance: What's Your Strategy? (2009) (informit.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | informit.com | newest

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Don’t Sleep on the EU’s Digital Markets and Digital Services Act (pgsignal.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | pgsignal.com | newest

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Microsoft on handling early days of pandemic, re cutting over 20K folks in 2023 (teamblind.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | teamblind.com | newest

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List of Fictional Computers (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | wikipedia.org | newest

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Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced? (bbc.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | bbc.com | newest

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Interactive article explains how a mechanical watch works (ciechanow.ski)

2 years ago | ohjeez | ciechanow.ski | newest

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Subroutines: David Bunnell's Newsletter from Inside the PC Industry (1986) (archive.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | archive.org | frontpage

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MegaGladys: Utilities to find info about people listed in Wikipedia (searchgizmos.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | searchgizmos.com | newest

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AI data training companies like Scale AI are hiring poets (restofworld.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | restofworld.org | newest

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Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample (cnn.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | cnn.com | newest

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Netflix DVD closing marks the end of something even bigger (slate.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | slate.com | newest

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Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf on What They Did Right – and What Went Wrong (connectsafely.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | connectsafely.org | newest

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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Dlarc Amateur Radio Library Tops 90k Items (archive.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | archive.org | best

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Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the ocean (npr.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | npr.org | frontpage

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OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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What is Llama 2? Meta’s large language model explained (infoworld.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | infoworld.com | newest

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Toyota Stops Car Assembly Lines After Server Runs Out of Disk Space (pcmag.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | pcmag.com | frontpage

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NASA image shows likely lunar crater caused by crash of Russia's Luna 25 mission (ksl.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | ksl.com | newest

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No way in or out of Burning Man after storm (sfgate.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | sfgate.com | best

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AI-discovered drugs will be for sale soon (vox.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | vox.com | newest

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B.C. research shows impact of giving homeless people cash (ctvnews.ca)

2 years ago | ohjeez | ctvnews.ca | newest

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[flagged] Designers say only way to fix Tesla Cybertruck is to start over (jalopnik.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | jalopnik.com | frontpage

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Yes, a Pigeon Is Faster for Data Transfer Than Gigabit Fiber Internet (tomshardware.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | tomshardware.com | newest

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How to Build a Distributed Inference Cache with Nvidia Triton and Redis (nvidia.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | nvidia.com | newest

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Cache Eviction Strategies Every Redis Developer Should Know (redis.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | redis.com | newest

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Python Is Coming to Excel (flowingdata.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | flowingdata.com | newest

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The world’s last internet cafes (restofworld.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | restofworld.org | frontpage

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Shopping in stores like Target, Macy’s has become a miserable experience (vox.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | vox.com | frontpage

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Remembering John Warnock, Co-Creator of PostScript and Acrobat (pcmag.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | pcmag.com | newest

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Building LLM Apps with Redis on Google's Vertex AI (redis.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | redis.com | newest

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A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet (404media.co)

2 years ago | ohjeez | 404media.co | best

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Ghana's MPs pass bill criminalising witchcraft accusation (trtafrika.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | trtafrika.com | best

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Bob Frankston discusses his experience in writing VisiCalc back in 1978 [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | youtube.com | frontpage

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Jerusalem doctors carry out revolutionary AR robotic spinal surgery (jpost.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | jpost.com | newest

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Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCS (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | youtube.com | newest

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Microsoft pulls article recommending Ottawa Food Bank to tourists (cbc.ca)

2 years ago | ohjeez | cbc.ca | newest

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Redis 7.2 Is Out (redis.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | redis.com | newest

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A Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk Gave Birth to the AI Debate 250 Years Ago (messynessychic.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | messynessychic.com | newest

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Don’t Anthropomorphize AI (medium.com/michaelswaine)

2 years ago | ohjeez | medium.com | newest

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Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS (bryanbraun.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | bryanbraun.com | best

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Scientists invent new resorbable biomaterials for implantable medical devices (phys.org)

2 years ago | ohjeez | phys.org | newest

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Totaled Tesla sold for parts in U.S. came back online in Ukraine (cnbc.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her (bbc.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | bbc.com | newest

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What to look for in a microservices monitoring tool (redis.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | redis.com | newest

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While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter (newatlas.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | newatlas.com | newest

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Why Open Source Matters (redmonk.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | redmonk.com | newest

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What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief (itsnicethat.com)

2 years ago | ohjeez | itsnicethat.com | newest