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Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip https://lobste.rs/s/jqvofw #hardware #historical #reversing http://www.righto.com/2026/11/signetics-st680a-dtl-nand.html

86open https://lobste.rs/s/oqc2sn #historical #unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format#86open

A history of backdoors (2015) https://lobste.rs/s/x1wkwe #cryptography #historical https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-history-of-backdoors/

A Decade of Kill Bugs https://lobste.rs/s/wgoato #historical #linux #unix https://alangrow.com/blog/a-decade-of-kill-bugs

the lost malloc() https://lobste.rs/s/ihqhia #c #historical #unix https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/

A brief history of just-in-time (2003) via @fanf@mendeddrum.org https://lobste.rs/s/h6dt6e #pdf #compilers #historical https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077

The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen https://lobste.rs/s/soosuu #historical #windows https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261029-00/?p=112808/

Smart audio for the smart home (2021) https://lobste.rs/s/paqtgw #historical https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html

Extremely brief history of PDP computers https://lobste.rs/s/ldvd3n #hardware #historical https://entropicthoughts.com/history-of-pdp-computers

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 https://lobste.rs/s/rwubks #historical #windows https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/

The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition) https://lobste.rs/s/ydmw6s #databases #historical #java https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/hibernate-origin-story

Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines https://lobste.rs/s/staj2z #video #historical #lisp #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fGKjFoaOg

Plots of deltas between time scales https://lobste.rs/s/aayqm3 #historical #science #unix https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html

Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009) via @thomask@social.octet-stream.net https://lobste.rs/s/eqoieo #historical #windows https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091130-00/?p=15863/

KDE the documentary via @bport@floss.social https://lobste.rs/s/udzueh #video #historical https://youtu.be/1Vyzla9mx4g?is=eD5kiCMmgJF5-_j2

The Ferranti files: 40 years of Sinclair secrets unearthed via @fanf@mendeddrum.org https://lobste.rs/s/cyp6lv #video #hardware #historical https://youtu.be/jiW3P1rJRMc

Lotus Improv on the NeXT via @bmp@hachyderm.io https://lobste.rs/s/zmuawx #historical https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotusimprov-next/

Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors https://lobste.rs/s/mbyawi #hardware #historical #reversing http://www.righto.com/2026/10/ML10-switched-capacitor-filter.html

The people holding up the internet https://lobste.rs/s/lhr4oy #historical #web https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

The Cuckoo's Egg (book) - Wikipedia https://lobste.rs/s/nicozi #historical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)