Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market(gamersnexus.net)

74 points by DeepLogin 27 days ago | 51 comments

GamersNexus news feature arguing that memory manufacturers have damaged the consumer RAM market through pricing and supply decisions.

Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering(arstechnica.com)

479 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 795 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the OceanGate Titan submersible missing near the Titanic wreck was steered with a $30 Logitech F710 gamepad.

AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space(tomshardware.com)

426 points by baal80spam 2 years ago | 140 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that AMD's datacenter sales surpassed Intel's for the first time, though both trail Nvidia's AI GPU sales.

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads(tomshardware.com)

38 points by danny00 18 days ago | 18 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on CRAM, a Linux technique exposing compressed RAM via standard memory semantics instead of a block device, claiming up to 452x faster reads.

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months(tomshardware.com)

594 points by haunter 2 months ago | 482 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that RAM prices have risen about 500% in a year, with 128GB of DDR5 now costing $3,399.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.