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  1. Ask HN: Stories from Users of Minicomputers and Mainframes

    I showed up too late to catch more than the tail end of the minicomputer era. I'd like to learn more about the computers that predated the 8-bit micros I fondly remember. There is plenty of information on the technology…

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  2. Arenas in Rust (russellw.github.io)
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  3. Show HN: A Source File Viewer (github.com)

    Hitherto, like probably most people, I had been viewing source code in the same programs in which I wrote it (mostly Notepad++ or VS Code). Decided reading code is an important enough use case to justify a dedicated…

    3 points 0
  4. Why was hardware diversification an asset for the IBM PC ecosystem? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
    1 points 1
  5. Who's Lying? (2022) (longform.asmartbear.com)
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  6. How does Explorer calculate the "Date" of a file? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    3 points 0
  7. Show HN: CD to nearest recent matching dir (github.com)

    A small but useful utility. Also a test case in how ChatGPT 4o performs when asked to write a small but not entirely trivial program in two different languages.

    1 points 0
  8. What were the major things that caused TCP/IP to become the standard protocol? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
    2 points 0
  9. Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
    251 points 79
  10. AI for Niche Languages (lumagraph.ie)
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  11. Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (lumagraph.ie)
    28 points 85
  12. Why not tablets for vertical markets?

    The first flurry of tablets came out in the early nineties. The technology wasn't yet good enough to be attractive to consumers, so the talk was about vertical business markets. Insurance claim adjusters, aircraft…

    2 points 3