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142 points by ibobev | 48 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post recalling sneaking into the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal in San Francisco, where Patrick Stewart turned out to be the host.
338 points by soheilpro | 165 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.
465 points by paulmooreparks | 149 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.
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.
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.
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.
459 points by lycopodiopsida | 598 comments
Personal blog post arguing that nobody can write correct C or C++ because nearly all code triggers undefined behavior, and that the languages are outdated.
21 points by fk33 | 3 comments
Kevin Beaumont's DoublePulsar post reporting that a compromised Claude Code extension version for VS Code and Cursor installed an SSH reverse backdoor on developer machines.
541 points by drob518 | 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.
244 points by dom96 | 179 comments
Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.