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

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)

9 points by gmays 25 days ago | 0 comments

A PDF of the International Energy Agency's 2026 special report on electrification of the global energy system.

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs(pdfa.org)

374 points by DuffJohnson 8 months ago | 211 comments

PDF Association article analyzing the released Epstein PDF files forensically, covering file validity, versions, incremental updates, Bates numbering, metadata and photographs.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 98 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 8 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations(ietf.org)

486 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 293 comments

IETF Internet-Draft by Farrell, Badii, Schneier, and Bellovin reflecting on ten years since the Snowden NSA revelations and the resulting security and privacy challenges.

Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies(ftm.eu)

570 points by Fnoord 10 months ago | 338 comments

Follow the Money investigative article on European health data being sold to a US company run by former Israeli intelligence officers.