Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC(every.to)

234 points by dshipper 2 years ago | 106 comments

The Rise and Fall of Adam Osborne(every.to)

102 points by dshipper 2 years ago | 41 comments

Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry (2023)(every.to)

59 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 26 comments

Compaq’s Rod Canion broke IBM's hold on the PC market(every.to)

66 points by vinnyglennon 1 year ago | 24 comments

Ed Roberts: The Secret Father of Modern Computing(every.to)

68 points by gumby 2 years ago | 30 comments

Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context(every.to)

123 points by dshipper 1 year ago | 32 comments

Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions(wsj.com)

428 points by marban 2 years ago | 770 comments

WSJ article on Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices losing billions despite being in millions of homes; the page loaded a captcha bot check instead.

Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse(theregister.com)

45 points by beardyw 12 days ago | 32 comments

The Register article criticizing Anthropic for promoting a hypothetical AI threat that the author says stokes fears of an AI apocalypse.

The turbulent AI era is here(gatesnotes.com)

330 points by nanna 2 months ago | 588 comments

A Gates Notes essay by Bill Gates on the arrival of a turbulent AI era and the critical choices it raises; only the site's navigation footer loaded.

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools(theorthagonist.substack.com)

489 points by ZeroTalent 1 year ago | 228 comments

A Substack essay from The Orthagonist arguing that popular business books are cheap entertainment built on simplified stories rather than useful strategic tools.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech(ianbetteridge.com)

319 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 173 comments

Blog post by Ian Betteridge on Silicon Valley's founder cult, contrasting Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman, and growing boredom with tech.