Articles by stmw
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A data race that doesn't compile (corentin-core.github.io)

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Rust Foundation Welcomes OpenAI as Platinum Member (rustfoundation.org)

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NIST Releases Technical Findings on What Caused 2021 Collapse of Miami Surfside (nist.gov)

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The Data Systems Group (DSG) at MIT (csail.mit.edu)

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Steve Blank: Secret History of Silicon Valley (2008) [video] (youtube.com)

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Who are the Japanese? DNA discovery rewrites history (sciencedaily.com)

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UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners (theembeddedrustacean.com)

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Cross-platform Rust: how WhatsApp, Signal etc. are shipping Rust to billions (kerkour.com)

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Why Being Curious and Asking Questions Are Essential in Life [Book] (forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman)

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Explorer 1 Overview – first US satellite (nasa.gov)

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Oasis EXtensible Access Control Markup Language TC FAQ (oasis-open.org)

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MIT Radiation Laboratory (ll.mit.edu)

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Berkeley, A Look Back: 75 years ago, Cal dorm housed Army troops (eastbaytimes.com)

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How/why did AMD/ATI fall behind Nvidia? (2015) (anandtech.com)

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React Alternatives for Front-End Development in 2026 (acropolium.com)

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All Linus rants from 2012 to 2015 (github.com/corollari)

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A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude Shannon [pdf] (math.harvard.edu)

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Being a luddite is cool, but have you seen the tapestries new looms are making? (mcsweeneys.net)

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Apple's Global Manufacturing Empire (historytools.org)

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Reading the Manual for Eniac, the First Electronic Computer (thenewstack.io)

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Rust Jobs January 2026 (filtra.io)

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VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video] (youtube.com)

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Code Quality Analysis of Translations from C to Rust (arxiv.org)

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Apple I: The Spark That Ignited the Digital Revolution (legendary price $666.66) (mac-history.net)

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Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch (news.mit.edu)

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Rust Burn 0.20.0 Release: Unifying CPU and GPU Kernels with CubeCL (burn.dev)

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click (nature.com)

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Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation (ams.org)

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Happy 40th birthday Apple Lisa (2023) (computerhistory.org)

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Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?

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Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on Micromanagement (2007) (pmarchive.com)

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Simonyi Hungarian notation in early Mac (folklore.org)

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NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers (github.com/alandipert)

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Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) by Charles Clark (cray-history.net)

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A Short Guide to Coding: Using the MIT Whirlwind I (1949) (dome.mit.edu)

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MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf] (dome.mit.edu)

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Timeline of supercomputers that carried the Cray name (cray-history.net)

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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (princeton.edu)

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Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (edn.com)

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Move Expressions (Part of Ergonomic RC for Rust) (smallcultfollowing.com)

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Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025 (commentary.org)

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Redis-rs and Redis-test 1.0.0 (github.com/redis-rs)

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SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System (ll.mit.edu)

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Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code (github.com/chrislgarry)

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Georgia Gkioxari Co-Leads Major 3D Perception Model Built on AI (caltech.edu)

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Evidence of mass brutality accompanied collapse of first pan-European culture (science.org)

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Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows (vintagetek.org)

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Starring the Computer: AN/FSQ-7 of SAGE air-defense sysstem (starringthecomputer.com)

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Arm's DreamBig Acquisition Reignites In-House Chip Prospects (eetimes.com)

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The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop) (hackster.io)

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The True Cost of Stateful Streaming: My Apache Flink Pains (fleak.ai)

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Non-English-based programming languages (wikipedia.org)

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The Truth About Memory Supply, Pricing and What Comes Next (eetimes.com)

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MIT Prof Barbara Liskov, on Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming [video] (youtube.com)

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Magnetic Core Memory (computerhistory.org)

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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (web.mit.edu)

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SampCert: Verified Foundations for Differential Privacy (PLDI 2025) (acm.org)

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GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools (cloud.google.com)

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Intellectual Ventures: Mosquito Laser Shootdown Sequence (2010) [video] (youtube.com)

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Fyrox Game Engine 1.0 Release Candidate (fyrox.rs)

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Architecture and Platform Information for Compiler Writers (llvm.org)

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Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor (2017) (ieee.org)

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Anyone here work on Amazon Kindle iOS app?

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Vault of Horror – The Inside Mac cover you never saw (folklore.org)

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The History of Rust (awesome.club)

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Soviet-Era Computer Is Both a Mystery and a Disaster (hackaday.com)

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Fast, Effective Code Generation in a Just-in-Time Java Compiler (Intel, 1998) (acm.org)

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The End Of An Era: The Mac division undergoes an inconceivable reorganization (folklore.org)

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Rainer Weiss (/waɪs/ WYSSE, German: [VAɪs]; Sept 29, 1932 – Aug 25, 2025) (wikipedia.org)

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R7912 and 7912AD Transient Waveform Digitizers (vintagetek.org)

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A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams (arxiv.org)

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A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system (rustcurious.com)

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Texas flood lives could have been saved with a phone app that tailored alerts? (greenspun.com)

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New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies (eecs.mit.edu)

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Renowned evolutionary biologist to lead Academy of Sciences beginning June 2026 (uchicago.edu)

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Tom Lehrer, Mathematician and Musician Who Set Wicked Satire to Cheery Tunes (thecrimson.com)

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The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos (rickovercorpus.org)

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SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit (github.com/launchbadge)

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Historic Apollo Mission Control Center (spacecenter.org)

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Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025) (scottaaronson.blog)

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Kevin Cheng – four hearts in three days, the only one that worked was artificial (wikipedia.org)

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Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find (news.mit.edu)

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List of Germans Relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip (wikipedia.org)

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Maybe coders should learn to love analog? (2024) (planetanalog.com)

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The creator of DOS, Tim Paterson [video] (youtube.com)

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The early days of Linux (2023) (lwn.net)

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First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy (keckobservatory.org)

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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool (news.mit.edu)

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Rust 2024 Song [video] (youtube.com)

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Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out (interviewing.io)

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Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013) (cell.com)

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Oral History of Andy Bechtolsheim (2015) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

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The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019) (historynet.com)

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MIT spinoff Sublime Systems, new way to make cement (news.mit.edu)

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Maybe coders should learn to love analog? Could they? (planetanalog.com)

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Low-latency automotive vision with event cameras (nature.com)

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Prince of Persia Apple II source code (6502 asm) (github.com/jmechner)

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Prof Frederick Hennie, computation expert and leader within MIT EECS, dies at 90 (news.mit.edu)

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What to Expect in 2023 in AI (stanford.edu)

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MIT’s top research stories of 2022 (news.mit.edu)