My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth(gatesnotes.com)

487 points by nrvn 1 year ago | 509 comments

Bill Gates's GatesNotes post announcing he plans to give away virtually all his wealth over the next 20 years via the Gates Foundation.

Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS(killedbyapixel.github.io)

118 points by KilledByAPixel 2 years ago | 44 comments

NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool(nodepad.space)

76 points by beshrkayali 3 years ago | 41 comments

The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product(kanfa.macbudkowski.com)

219 points by kiwieater 7 months ago | 291 comments

Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes(github.com)

217 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 28 comments

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf](cia.gov)

179 points by Synaesthesia 3 years ago | 91 comments

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”(arstechnica.com)

501 points by DamnInteresting 5 months ago | 184 comments

Ars Technica article on Microsoft open-sourcing the earliest known DOS source code, from 86-DOS before Microsoft acquired it.

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records(blog.faav.net)

287 points by luispa 27 days ago | 120 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok(bramcohen.com)

541 points by drob518 6 months ago | 454 comments

Bram Cohen blog post arguing that the leaked Claude source code's poor quality reflects vibe coding dogfooding taken to cult-like extremes.

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says(apnews.com)

669 points by cbg0 2 years ago | 734 comments

AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted(graz.social)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers(techcrunch.com)

521 points by raffael_de 4 months ago | 176 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft open source tools were compromised to steal passwords from AI developers.