First screen, captured .
331 points by luu | 123 comments
A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.
14 points by ibobev | 8 comments
349 points by luu | 122 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how the passive USB-to-PS/2 adapter bundled with Microsoft mice worked, with the mouse handling both protocols.
55 points by ibobev | 25 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining what happens when someone tries to hot-patch a Windows function that has already been hot-patched.
825 points by JaimeThompson | 332 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.
339 points by ramimac | 211 comments
Harper's Magazine essay by Sam Kriss, a letter from San Francisco about tech's new generation of AI startup founders and 'the end of thinking'.
36 points by artninja1988 | 26 comments
Anthropic Frontier Red Team post reporting experiments suggesting small AI models may soon self-replicate on commercial IoT devices without datacenter access.
24 points by eustoria | 11 comments
A personal essay by Murphy Trueman about inheriting her mother's writing style and finding that it now reads as if written by AI.
473 points by theahura | 176 comments
A Substack essay from 12 Grams of Carbon arguing that deep learning is applied topology, explaining how neural networks transform data lying on manifolds.