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- Hacker News
- Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
by bargainbin - - i like visual
- can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
by vivzkestrel - Wow, it's been a while since anyone published anything this interesting.by guerrilla
- Good interview with McIlroy. Fix this: Goldstine, as in the citations, not Goldstein, as in the body text.
Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.
I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.
by atannen - This one was good:
Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
by Rendello - A small window to how we used to spread deep computer topics in the 90s. No substacks or X posts. Very cool.by glimshe
- ``` How can people write big systems in general?
We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```
by joshuaS98 - Seeing stuff like this reminds me why I got into computers in the late 90s. Human ingenuity paired with love for the art and the craft.
Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.
by sph