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83 stories and discussions about history, aggregated from every source we track.

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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut…

930 points•pluc•13 days ago•819 comments•
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ZCode silently packages entire workspaces and full Git history to the cloud with a server-only key; this post reconstructs the upload pipeline, gives a filesystem lock, and checks Z.ai's Repo Wiki response — the…

329 points•csmantle•13 days ago•110 comments•
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ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.

261 points•cdnsteve•13 days ago•14 comments•
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It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets

235 points•rbanffy•about 13 hours ago•96 comments•
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The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.

186 points•jonbaer•11 days ago•49 comments•
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“The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…

176 points•NaOH•10 days ago•86 comments•
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155 points•tybulewicz•7 days ago•100 comments•
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Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math.

111 points•pseudolus•6 days ago•46 comments•
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103 points•EA-3167•6 days ago•32 comments•
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We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.

101 points•Luc•9 days ago•4 comments•
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81 points•Rochus•3 days ago•25 comments•
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History of how I made portable my transputer C compiler to work in modern platforms.

58 points•nanochess•9 days ago•8 comments•
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Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more.

24 points•aquastorm•7 days ago•25 comments•
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6 points•tolugenius•6 days ago•1 comment•
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A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

6 points•quobit•over 5 years ago•1 comment
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We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.

5 points•lr0•6 days ago•2 comments
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visualize, and report code coverage within llm sessions - joshLong145/ambits

5 points•joshLong145•10 days ago•0 comments•
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The Creative Independent is now ten years old. That’s a little over a quarter of the Web’s entire history. It’s wild to think how much and how little everything has changed. Many artists are dealing with the same…

4 points•cookingoils•4 days ago•0 comments•
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4 points•CharlesW•6 days ago•0 comments•
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4 points•AnodicElegy•7 days ago•3 comments•
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4 points•fourfire•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Working memory for AI coding agents, yours, and your team's. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sessions become one living graph, queryable over MCP. Self-hosted. - motif-Labs/motif

3 points•merthdotxyz•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Why we all default to the same port numbers

3 points•smarmelling•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

3 points•pluc•4 days ago•1 comment•
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The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.

3 points•joozio•7 days ago•1 comment•
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Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than…

3 points•vitalnodo•8 days ago•2 comments•
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3 points•suopspaces•10 days ago•0 comments•
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On Version History: Nilay Patel and Victoria Song recount their school days with TI graphing calculators.

3 points•Brajeshwar•11 days ago•1 comment•
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Where did the name "radio button" come from?

3 points•jitbit•almost 12 years ago•0 comments
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Once AI started writing most of my code, I left 15 years of Git behind for Jujutsu (jj). Here are four reasons I can’t go back: saving, experimenting, rewriting history, and how the log shows history.

2 points•oukayuka•about 12 hours ago•0 comments•
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2 points•Bluestein•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Learn about the new features and changes in Git 2.56.0, including a new git-history(1) drop command, git-refs(1) getting new subcommands, and more.

2 points•nayak•2 days ago•0 comments•
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No, it’s not aliens, but a phenomenon caused by magnetic activity that astronomers have never before been able to pin on a specific planet.

2 points•thunderbong•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Joby's autonomous aircraft just flew coast-to-coast with zero pilot control. Explore how autonomy is transforming the aerial economy.

2 points•flyingcars•7 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•mooreds•7 days ago•0 comments•
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CTRL+ALT+DELIRIUM: The unusual stories that shaped TECH history [ZANZOURI, Thierry, HECQ, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. CTRL+ALT+DELIRIUM: The unusual stories that shaped TECH history

2 points•tzanz•8 days ago•0 comments•
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The country smash racks up it 23rd week in the US charts, breaking a record set by Mariah Carey.

2 points•1659447091•8 days ago•0 comments•
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Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

2 points•vinyl7•8 days ago•1 comment•
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The U.S.’s unique position on hate speech regulation stems from more than 100 years of history.

2 points•iamnothere•9 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•nikita_d•9 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•bschne•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

2 points•consumer451•11 days ago•0 comments•
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It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets

1 points•kaycebasques•about 1 hour ago•0 comments
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Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history. - abue-ammar/tinycast

1 points•swyx•1 day ago•0 comments•
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We examine the Histomap, an ambitious timeline that details the power of various civilizations going all the way back to 2,000 B.C

1 points•colinprince•2 days ago•0 comments•
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A history of the field from the inside: its ideas, its people, its machines, and what forty years of studying prices and trading them have taught me

1 points•yarapavan•2 days ago•0 comments•
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A playable museum of video game history, 1962–2013. Walk the foyer, step into each era’s room, and play the game on its TV.

1 points•JoAz111•2 days ago•0 comments•
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The notion that ideas have lifecycles has many antecedents.

1 points•thm•2 days ago•0 comments•

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