A new view of the Manchester Computer(rylandscollections.com)

83 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 10 comments

Programming the ENIAC (2011)(columbia.edu)

9 points by nill0 1 month ago | 0 comments

A Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz on the ENIAC and how its women programmers set it up by plugging cables and flipping switches.

ENIAC Programmers (2011)(columbia.edu)

13 points by adunk 1 month ago | 1 comments

Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz about the ENIAC and the women who programmed it by plugging cables and setting switches.

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal(lainenooney.com)

41 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 31 comments

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer – and Apple – History(drexel.edu)

44 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 13 comments

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug(righto.com)

362 points by gslin 1 year ago | 110 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says(arstechnica.com)

452 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 153 comments

Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.

Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem(nautil.us)

324 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 124 comments

Nautilus article by Madison Goldberg on cryptographers' advance toward fully private database lookups and internet searches (private information retrieval).

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 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.

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster(claude.dev)

179 points by matthieu_bl 1 month ago | 113 comments

Engineering blog post from Anthropic's Claude team describing how they made claude.ai three times faster in two weeks by having Claude measure and optimize performance.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.