Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)
63 points by pbohun | 18 comments
Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.
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The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists(nytimes.com)
44 points by digital55 | 33 comments
New York Times interactive article on how Trump administration research funding cuts are pushing young scientists and PhD researchers away from the U.S.; only a captcha page loaded.
I will not be using LLMs in my coding(polso.info)
63 points by Risse | 126 comments
Personal essay explaining why the author will not use LLMs for coding; the page returned a Varnish Error 418 instead of content.
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I(nytimes.com)
17 points by johnny313 | 3 comments
New York Times article about Google turning off search access for schools that restrict or reject its AI features; the captured page is a captcha challenge.
macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes(wadetregaskis.com)
113 points by colejohnson66 | 94 comments
Blog post describing how macOS 27 Golden Gate fails to mount, convert, or erase CoreStorage encrypted HFS+ volumes, with debugging details and a workaround.
Jensen Huang Must Resign(economist.com)
30 points by Anon84 | 19 comments
An Economist leader article arguing that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should resign; the captured page shows a bot-detection access restriction instead.
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I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet(oqtadrive.org)
17 points by xelalex | 3 comments
A retrospective blog post on five years of OqtaDrive, an Arduino-based Sinclair Microdrive emulator that later added an internet gateway for the Sinclair Network.
Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi(roylongbottom.org.uk)
319 points by stare_spb | 164 comments
Roy Longbottom's page comparing Cray-1 supercomputer benchmark performance with home computers, phones, tablets and Raspberry Pi, plus his background in benchmarking.
Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)(jordemort.dev)
325 points by goodburb | 130 comments
A blog post by Jordan Webb investigating, detective-style, why Android cannot use USB CDC Ethernet adapters despite supporting USB ethernet.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)
392 points by nee1r | 267 comments
Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.
Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z(ryanliptak.com)
476 points by LorenDB | 240 comments
Blog post explaining that Windows drive letters can be non A-Z characters, demonstrated by using subst to create a +:\ drive, and exploring the implications.