Hackernews posts about DEC

DEC is Digital Equipment Corporation, a pioneering American computer company that played a significant role in shaping the computing industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.

1. Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer (isolveproblems.substack.com)
   1229 points by axelriet 2 days ago | 621 comments
2. ArXiv declares independence from Cornell (www.science.org)
   811 points by bookstore-romeo 16 days ago | 277 comments
3. A Decade of Slug (terathon.com)
   760 points by mwkaufma 18 days ago | 80 comments
4. I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
   667 points by amarcheschi 7 days ago | 259 comments
5. European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop (bsky.app)
   559 points by lemoncookiechip 9 days ago | 25 comments
6. Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
   414 points by remywang 24 days ago | 220 comments
7. Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice (med.stanford.edu)
   386 points by mustaphah 23 days ago | 185 comments
8. Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions (lwn.net)
   376 points by jwilk 25 days ago | 289 comments
9. Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (susam.net)
   370 points by susam 18 days ago | 89 comments
10. A decade of Docker containers (cacm.acm.org)
    366 points by zacwest 28 days ago | 261 comments
11. FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data (www.ftc.gov)
    316 points by gnabgib 5 days ago | 158 comments
12. Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure (www.theregister.com)
    221 points by jjgreen 24 days ago | 476 comments
13. Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg (www.khronos.org)
    166 points by y1n0 19 days ago | 61 comments
14. Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed (supreme.justia.com)
    147 points by rileymichael 10 days ago | 2 comments
15. Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust (iev.ee)
    127 points by vismit2000 12 days ago | 45 comments
16. A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (codeberg.org)
    105 points by carte_blanche 17 days ago | 2 comments
17. Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented" (www.v-dem.net)
    104 points by geox 16 days ago | 35 comments
18. Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile (thottingal.in)
    91 points by sthottingal 7 days ago | 64 comments
19. Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data (modolap.com)
    87 points by ronfriedhaber 2 days ago | 30 comments
20. An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close (www.nytimes.com)
    78 points by tintinnabula 14 days ago | 21 comments
21. The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline (paulkedrosky.com)
    74 points by aanet 5 days ago | 85 comments
22. The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent (fortune.com)
    72 points by cols 12 days ago | 34 comments
23. Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler (mtg.jessitron.honeydemo.io)
    66 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 15 comments
24. Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web (susam.net)
    65 points by oystersareyum 17 days ago | 8 comments
25. Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery (matadisco.org)
    63 points by biggestfan 10 days ago | 10 comments
26. SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com)
    60 points by luu 21 days ago | 19 comments
27. How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?
    41 points by zain__t 22 days ago | 64 comments
28. DCJ11Hack+ – DEC PDP/11 based homebrew computer (codeberg.org)
    29 points by zdw 4 days ago | 1 comments
29. Hegseth declares no quarter will be given (www.war.gov)
    26 points by JasonADrury 21 days ago | 28 comments
30. 2026 is the year that decides whether the open web will survive (www.anildash.com)
    23 points by fsflover 5 days ago | 7 comments