Reviving an IBM RS/6000 Workstation(twitter.com)

29 points by mef 3 years ago | 4 comments

Rp2040 runs unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8(twitter.com)

84 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 19 comments

DirectX 12 Support on macOS(twitter.com)

247 points by doener 3 years ago | 93 comments

FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs(twitter.com)

331 points by gslin 3 years ago | 314 comments

Tweet by Colin Percival noting that FreeBSD booting in Firecracker spends 7% of its time bubblesorting SYSINITs, prompting a switch to a faster sort.

Ed Fredkin has died(twitter.com)

108 points by masswerk 3 years ago | 25 comments

Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago(twitter.com)

270 points by mikkohypponen 3 years ago | 333 comments

Fast machines, slow machines(jmmv.dev)

482 points by _dain_ 3 years ago | 280 comments

Julio Merino's blog post expanding on his viral Twitter thread comparing app launch speed on an old Windows NT 3.51 machine versus a modern Windows 11 computer.

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison(blogsystem5.substack.com)

564 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 488 comments

Julio Merino's Blog System/5 post comparing the design of Windows NT with Unix and asking what made NT advanced and whether that still holds.

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan(wbenny.github.io)

635 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 167 comments

Blog post explaining how to make a Windows VM report a CPU fan via WMI's Win32_Fan class so malware's anti-VM checks pass and samples run.

What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?(davidreis.me)

333 points by dreis_sw 2 years ago | 135 comments

Blog post examining the network traffic and backend processes, including WebSocket connections, triggered when a player makes a move on lichess.org.

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2(jan.wildeboer.net)

371 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 225 comments

Blog post by Jan Wildeboer, second in a series, arguing the web is broken by botnets, likely covering apps embedding SDKs that turn user devices into scraping proxies.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)(mazzo.li)

462 points by SEJeff 3 years ago | 87 comments

Blog post exploring how Linux pipes are implemented by iteratively optimizing a pipe-based test program from 3.5GiB/s to about 65GiB/s using perf profiling.