A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson(computerhistory.org)

67 points by oldnetguy 11 months ago | 5 comments

The APL programming language source code (2012)(computerhistory.org)

69 points by tosh 6 months ago | 24 comments

Donald Bitzer has died(computerhistory.org)

199 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 21 comments

Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)(computerhistory.org)

67 points by wmlive 1 year ago | 31 comments

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design(computerhistory.org)

57 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 2 comments

Generative Music with the Muse(computerhistory.org)

11 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 0 comments

Cormac McCarthy has died(nytimes.com)

803 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 330 comments

New York Times obituary reporting the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023).

Thought as a Technology (2016)(cognitivemedium.com)

4 points by tobr 26 days ago | 0 comments

Michael Nielsen's 2016 essay on how computer interfaces can serve as cognitive technologies that expand the range of human thought.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution(ideas.imbue.com)

12 points by raybb 24 days ago | 2 comments

An essay by Josh Albrecht on Imbue's Substack arguing for a new personal computing revolution that restores user control, free of subscriptions, ads and dark patterns.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Henry Kissinger Has Died(nytimes.com)

503 points by Kye 2 years ago | 413 comments

News report on the death of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; the screenshot shows a BBC article covered by a welcome modal.