An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf
Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-outdoor.html
Amusingplanet
Sao Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements
PhD Simulator https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html
Mianzhi Wang
PhD Simulator
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously. Sometimes the RNG can be brutal…
Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll https://dm.hn
dm.hn
Hacker News Blogroll
A simple blogroll collection from the the Hacker News community.
Underwater ears everywhere https://computer.rip/2023-07-15-underwater-ears-everywhere.html
Kevin Mitnick has died https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
Dignity Memorial
Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV
Celebrate the life of Kevin Mitnick, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery.
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
GitHub
GitHub - bartobri/no-more-secrets: A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie…
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers. - bartobri/no-more-secrets
Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow https://infosec.exchange/@paco/110772422266480371
Infosec Exchange
Paco Hope #BLM (@paco@infosec.exchange)
@regehr@mastodon.social Back in the day, I got called to a professor’s office (I was IT support in the CS department) and the professor was complaining his Sparc4 was running slow. First thing I did was minimise a window and there was just this black square.…
Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news
Science
Breaking Superconductor News
I wrote recently about the turmoil in the field of higher-temperature superconductors, but little did I know what was coming. Yesterday two preprints appeared on the rXiv site, the first bearing the attention-getting title “The First Room-Temperature Ambient…
Tarsnap outage postmortem https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00050.html
Cap'n Proto 1.0 https://capnproto.org/news/2023-07-28-capnproto-1.0.html
Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
GitHub
GitHub - grassmunk/Chicago95: A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. - GitHub - grassmunk/Chicago95: A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516
“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/behold-a-digitization-of-the-most-beautiful-of-all-printed-books-the-kelmscott-chaucer.html
Open Culture
Behold a Digitization of “The Most Beautiful of All Printed Books,” The Kelmscott Chaucer
The history of the printed book stretches back well over a millennium, the title of the oldest known book currently being held by a Tang Dynasty work of the Diamond Sutra. But what about the most beautiful book?
Try the last internet Kermit server https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10555-try-the-last-internet-kermit-server
TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/3049
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP Establish Joint Venture to Bring Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing to Europe|Taiwan Semiconductor…
Hsinchu, Stuttgart, Munich, Eindhoven, Aug 8, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM), Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY), and NXP Semiconductors