What I Always Wanted to Know about Second Class Values(dl.acm.org)

29 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 17 comments

The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024)(dl.acm.org)

40 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 17 comments

An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors(dl.acm.org)

20 points by blakepelton 7 months ago | 3 comments

Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions(dl.acm.org)

39 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 2 comments

Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution(dl.acm.org)

41 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 2 comments

They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong?(lloydslist.com)

39 points by everybodyknows 7 months ago | 37 comments

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.

Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux(github.com)

326 points by acqbu 3 years ago | 203 comments

GitHub repository for Chicago95, a Windows 95-style desktop theme for Linux with GTK3, Xfce, KDE, icons, cursors, and fonts.

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience(56k.rip)

235 points by adunk 25 days ago | 97 comments

56k.rip is a website that recreates the 1996 dial-up internet experience; the capture shows only a solid teal screen.

98.css(jdan.github.io)

485 points by lopespm 3 months ago | 110 comments

Documentation for 98.css, a CSS library that recreates Windows 98 UI components, shown at the status bar section.

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

AI's Dial-Up Era(wreflection.com)

441 points by nowflux 11 months ago | 395 comments

A Wreflection newsletter essay comparing the current state of AI to the dial-up era of the internet in 1995.