Articles by rbanffy
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Invent your own comprehensions in Python – Python Morsels (pythonmorsels.com)

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The Unmaking of the American University (newyorker.com)

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Nvidia's Groq Plot Thickens – The Chip Letter (thechipletter.substack.com)

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How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world (technologyreview.com)

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New HIV cure approach forces hidden virus into tripping immune sensor (science.org)

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LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 (theregister.com)

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AI Boom Comes for CPUs, Which Are 'Cool Again' (hpcwire.com)

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Nvidia's Groq Plot Thickens (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Voyager Technologies Invests in Max Space – SpaceNews (spacenews.com)

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Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new performance cores (arstechnica.com)

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Some skills become second nature (news.mit.edu)

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The Olympus Programming Language (acm.org)

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AMD Expands Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Family with 8 to 12 Core Parts – ServeTheHome (servethehome.com)

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Nvidia 595 Linux Driver Running Well in Early Benchmarks (phoronix.com)

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3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control (tomshardware.com)

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New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple 'Lonely Runner' Problem (quantamagazine.org)

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"It doesn't feel safe"–Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US (arstechnica.com)

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Broadcom May Become the Biggest Counterbalance to Nvidia (nextplatform.com)

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Dire Strait (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)

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Lost in Translation: What the AI code debate keeps getting wrong (ibm.com)

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I built a deterministic COBOL verification engine (reddit.com)

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Rust: The Unlikely Engine of the Vibe Coding Era (forbes.com)

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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee backs social media ban for under-16s (catalannews.com)

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Syracuse among cities to upgrade snowplows with video, AI and GPS – AP News (apnews.com)

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China's Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I (nytimes.com)

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The Aria EV Shows the Potential of EV Battery Swapping (ieee.org)

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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target (arstechnica.com)

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Tech giants sign energy pledge at White House ahead of midterms (reuters.com)

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Amazon Data Centers Became a Casualty of Iran War (bloomberg.com)

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China ramps up 'high stakes' tech race with US as economic imbalances deepen (reuters.com)

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Shipping System Fonts to Github.com (markdotto.com)

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"An Engineer Looks at Electronic Computing" 1965 IBM 1130 Computing System [video] (youtube.com)

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Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities (arxiv.org)

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The AI Surveillance Debate Is Missing the Most Dangerous Part (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

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Learning-Based Multi-Stage Strategy for Aircraft to Evade Missile (arxiv.org)

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The Zen of DevOps · TBNL (tibobeijen.nl)

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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies (newyorker.com)

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LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic (theregister.com)

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Getting Started with Snobol – Ratfactor (ratfactor.com)

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Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com/nabroleonx)

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PEP 747 – Annotating Type Forms – peps.python.org (python.org)

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The information space around military AI is being weaponized against us (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

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Doc-to-LoRA: Learning to Instantly Internalize Contexts (arxiv.org)

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The Ownership Problem: Why We Get Territorial and What to Do About It (thecaringtechie.com)

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Washington state hotline callers hear AI voice with Spanish accent – AP News (apnews.com)

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What Happened to Gem? (dfarq.homeip.net)

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A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (space.com)

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Magnavox Odyssey 2 – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

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High-Density Hydro Storage System Ditches the Water (ieee.org)

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18 Years of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake as Much as 95x Speed of Penryn (phoronix.com)

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Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see (arstechnica.com)

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Surviving large migrations: Metrolink and the housing crisis (flipdish.com)

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Hubble spotted a 'dark galaxy' that's at least 99.9% dark matter (science.org)

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Why Mars Astronauts Need More Than Just Space Greenhouses (universetoday.com)

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Why NVLink Is Nvidia's Secret Sauce Driving a 10x Performance Boost in MoEs (hpcwire.com)

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Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin (coreyrobin.com)

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Magnavox Odyssey 2 – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

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SambaNova Eyes 10T Parameter Models for Agentic AI with New Chip (hpcwire.com)

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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn (1985) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be the Most Exciting Features to Come for Linux 7.1 (phoronix.com)

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New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)

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Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid (arstechnica.com)

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Some More Game Theory, This Time on the AMD-Meta Platforms Deal (nextplatform.com)

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BBNs Toward Universal Fabricators – By Eric Gilliam (freaktakes.com)

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Jefferson Lab Tapped to Lead Development for Exploring Nuclear Waste Treatment (jlab.org)

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Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin (coreyrobin.com)

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Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (acm.org)

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Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode (loriculus.org)

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Inventing the Lisa User Interface (archive.org)

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Nobody Knows Anything – Derek Thompson (derekthompson.org)

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"Affordances," a science-fiction story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias (slate.com)

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Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency from the Right (jacobin.com)

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What's so hard about continuous learning? (seangoedecke.com)

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What's so hard about continuous learning? (seangoedecke.com)

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AMD Says "Helios" Racks and MI400 Series GPUs on Track for 2H 2026 (nextplatform.com)

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GitHub – brickbots/framedeck: A Framework mainboard based Cyberdeck (github.com/brickbots)

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Some More Game Theory, This Time on the AMD-Meta Platforms Deal (nextplatform.com)

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CPU-Only Compute Still Matters to a Lot of HPC Centers (nextplatform.com)

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In a replay of 2019, Apple says a single Mac will be manufactured in the US (arstechnica.com)

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IBM stock price rebounds after Anthropic's COBOL claim rattles mainframe bulls (ts2.tech)

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The Flight – Niklaus Wirth as co-pilot (coraid.com)

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Don't Accomplish Everything – By Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Day 1461 of Putin's Three-Day War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Some Game Theory on That Nvidia-Meta Platforms Partnership (nextplatform.com)

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Something Bigger Than AI Is Happening – By Shae O (shaeomonijo.substack.com)

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How Nick Land Became Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsayer (newyorker.com)

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How Nick Land Became Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsayer (newyorker.com)

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America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power (npr.org)

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An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia (gizmodo.com)

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55 years ago, the first computer search warrant was issued (tomshardware.com)

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Computer History Museum unveils comically large Macintosh Plus (tomshardware.com)

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Cromemco C-10 Personal Computer – By John Paul Wohlscheid (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Nick Land Became Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsayer (newyorker.com)

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The One Billion Row Challenge – A Fun Exploration (github.com/graphicsman)

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From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round (arstechnica.com)

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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services (arstechnica.com)

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After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon (arstechnica.com)

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The U.S. and China Are Pursuing Different AI Futures (ieee.org)