🗿 EBCDIC Archaeology

Mainframe Character Sets, IBM Heritage, Cultural Encoding, Legacy Translation, Historical Standards

Archaeologists perplexed to find west African ancestry in early medieval England
the-independent.com·3d
👪Geneology
Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface
are.na·1d
🔤Font Archaeology
Making RFCs easier to find and use through a re-imagined RFC Editor website
ietf.org·1d
📝ABNF Parsing
Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown
theregister.com·2h
🔓Hacking
Rethinking the Mechanics of Modern Content Management: From Paper to Paradox
info.aiim.org·1d
📄Document Digitization
The Mongolian startup defying Big Tech with its own LLM
restofworld.org·13h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🇯🇵Japanese Computing
Racket 8.18 Released
blog.racket-lang.org·14h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🧠Lisp Dialects
Equi-mRNA: Protein Translation Equivariant Encoding for mRNA Language Models
arxiv.org·19h
🔗Functional Compilers
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
news.ycombinator.com·6h·
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⚡Incremental Computation
Money in Motion: Micro-Velocity and Usage of Ethereums Liquid Staking Tokens
arxiv.org·19h
📟Historical Protocols
Memento: A Survival Guide for Building Real Software with a Forgetful Genius
dev.to·22h·
Discuss: DEV
🧠Memory Forensics
Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine
tarides.com·2d·
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🦀Rust Macros
Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol
mackuba.eu·2d·
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🔌Interface Evolution
Learning to read code is more important than learning to write it (2018)
letterstoanewdeveloper.com·7h·
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📏Code Metrics
From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix
netflixtechblog.com·1d·
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📊Feed Optimization
I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
openmymind.net·23h·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News
🌐NetworkProtocols
Rebuilding Babel: The Tokenizer (2022)
nan.fyi·12h·
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🔗Concatenative Programming
Making Sense of AI Job Titles
dbreunig.com·1d·
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🗺️Competency Maps
SafeLLM: Unlearning Harmful Outputs from Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks
arxiv.org·19h
💻Local LLMs
Herb Sutter "Three Cool Things in C++26"
herbsutter.com·2d·
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🔩Systems Programming