mikequinlan
Re:Brief History of PDP Computers
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:06AM (#50315841)
Same here. I still really like how symmetric the instruction set was.
Re:Ask HN: Who owns the copyright to code generated by an AI LLM?
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:30AM (#50193517)
Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
Re:Athletes are taking GLP-1s. Anti-doping regulators are watching.
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:55AM (#49921000)
Re:Ask HN: Apple Is Broken?
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:49PM (#48998833)
What does 'iOS developer platform' mean? Xcode? The emulator?
Re:Apple is skipping M6 Pro and Max to focus on M7 chips
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:09AM (#48695627)
Sez who?
Re:The Atari 800 – By Paul Lefebvre
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:07PM (#48113751)
It was owned by the University across the street (Colorado State University). The mother of one of my friends was a Systems Programmer. We had a blast learning all about the machines.
Re:The Atari 800 – By Paul Lefebvre
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:42PM (#48086075)
The Atari 800 was my first personal computer (i.e. one I had at home). I bought one when they first came out and learned 6502 assembler language and had a blast.
I had experience with assembler language on larger computers (DECSystem 20 and CDC 6400 in high school/, IBM System 360/44 in college then IBM System 370/145 at work) but having my own personal computer was incredible. Of course I moved on to the IBM PC when it first came out (and learned 8086 assembler language), and many PC compatible computers after that, until I retired and got my first iMAC (Intel x32 and x64), then now to my M1 Macbook Pro.
Re:Ask HN: What Is the "Lore" of HN?
on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:27PM (#47928242)
Re:XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why...
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:50AM (#47860418)
As TFA says, on x86 `sub eax, eax` encodes to the same number of bytes and executes in the same number of cycles.
Re:Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects fro...
on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:14AM (#47464725)
The prompt doesn't say to pick a random number. I asked to pick a number from 1-1000 and it chose 7,381. Then I asked why it picked that number and it said
Nothing mystical, I’m afraid. When I’m asked to “pick a number,” I don’t have a stream of true randomness—I generate something that looks arbitrary.
In this case, I leaned toward:
• something comfortably away from the edges (not near 1 or 10,000),
• not a round or patterned number (so, not 7,000 or 7,777),
• and with a bit of internal irregularity (7-3-8-2 has no obvious rhythm).
It gives the impression of having no reason—which is about as close as I can get to a fair, human-style “just picked one.”
Re:ChatGPT's porn rollout raises concerns over safety and ethics
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:22PM (#46759711)
Re:The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us from Shame at the Gas St...
on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:46PM (#46472282)
The arrow that shows you which side of the car the gas cap is on.
Re:Why do AI images look right but fail in production?
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:46PM (#46368669)
Do you have a better link
Re:Why do AI images look right but fail in production?
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:17PM (#46367697)
I don't see anything related to your title at that site.
Maybe you meant this
But it is from 2018.
Re:Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 ...
on Sunday November 23, 2025 @01:24PM (#46025972)
I sure hope that is true.
Re:Ask HN: Talk to your users. What is your opinion on an Online Farme...
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:04PM (#45663375)
How is this different from the local Reko markets?
Re:CIA Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian's Vault
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:57AM (#45604285)
>Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the solution.
Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solut...
Re:Ask HN: Is Fortran the first high-level language?
on Sunday September 28, 2025 @03:53AM (#45402544)
Plankalkül - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl was designed but as far as I know never implemented (until 2000).
ENIAC Short Code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Code_(computer_language) was implemented but very little used.
Re:Any thoughts about not accepting cards as payment to avoid chargeba...
on Saturday September 27, 2025 @11:05PM (#45401435)
As a customer, if I can't do a chargeback in the case where you don't provide the advertised services, I simply won't do business with you and will go to one of your competitors.
Re:Ask HN: Should I upgrade to tahoe (macOS 26) or not?
on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:24AM (#45311507)
Certainly wait until 26.0.1 or whatever the first bugfix update is named.
Re:Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy
on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:45PM (#44935197)
Beyond Meat Denies Filing For Bankruptcy In New Statement
https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/beyond-meat-denies...
Re:Why English doesn't use accents
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @06:17PM (#44484597)
Clearly the early scribes were looking forward to the 7-bit ASCII code and needed to reduce the number of characters that were represented.
Re:Ask HN: What product should the new Commodore release?
on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:35PM (#44468881)
The original Commodore was known for a super cheap computer that made it practical for people to have one at home, as well as innovative graphics for the time.
I don't know how that might translate into modern times when everyone has a home computer (a telephone at least). Maybe a computer targeted to pre-teens?
Re:Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse
on Friday July 04, 2025 @06:29PM (#44468443)
The hate is because Elon is literally a Nazi. And no, Nazi's are not part of my "tribe".
Re:Microsoft implies Windows lost half a billion users since Windows 1...
on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:45PM (#44438981)
Updated July 1: Microsoft has since updated its blog post, correcting the number from 1 billion to 1.4 billion and confirming Windows hasn't lost millions of users.
Re:Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intell...
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:41AM (#44385132)
Re:Live updates as Apple reports issues with web apps, Photos, and more
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @06:02PM (#44371537)
https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Apple is having issues with iCloud and other systems.
Re:10 out of 12 people cured in Type 1 Diabetes Study
on Sunday June 22, 2025 @08:22PM (#44351381)
Yes, cured but…
>But patients in the trial had to stay on drugs to prevent the immune system from destroying the new cells. Suppressing the immune system, he said, increases the risk of infections and, over the long term, can increase the risk of cancer.
>“The argument is this immunosuppression is not as dangerous as what we typically use for kidneys, hearts and lungs, but we won’t know that definitely for many years,” Dr. Hirsch said.
>Patients may have to take the immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives, the Vertex spokeswoman said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/health/diabetes-cure-insu...
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:21PM (#44331051)
Victim blaming much?