Humanities in the Machine

Researchers find major flaws in the historical clinical trials used to justify spanking

Impressions from Mozilla 1.2b (2002)

Object-Oriented Programming: Themes and Variations (1985)

Historical GitHub Uptime Charts

Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record

Predicting home electricity usage based on historical patterns in Home Assistant

Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent

DOS Memory Management

Cash issuing terminals

A decade of Docker containers

The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)

"Our programs are fun to use" – Beagle Bros

The Man Who Stole Infinity

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

The Man Who Stole Infinity

The Rise and Fall of Scala: A Love Letter to the Language That Broke My Heart

The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976

One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)

Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

Hidden Innovations of Golf Video Games

Audio on hp300

The Tetrasociohistorical Context: A Quantitative Model for the Analysis of Historical Events

How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?

What Is a PC Compatible?

1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025

Air traffic control: the IBM 9020

History of Greenfield (in-browser Wayland compositor)

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