Hackernews posts about VAX

VAX is a family of mainframe computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 1970s and early 1980s that were designed to be compatible with their earlier PDP series, but with significantly increased performance and capacity.

1. John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com)
   507 points by azhenley 4 days ago | 614 comments
2. Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation (valetudo.cloud)
   389 points by freetonik 14 days ago | 212 comments
3. Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features (blog.torproject.org)
   347 points by HelloUsername 18 days ago | 219 comments
4. The day my smart vacuum turned against me (codetiger.github.io)
   245 points by codetiger 27 days ago | 133 comments
5. Introducing architecture variants (discourse.ubuntu.com)
   240 points by jnsgruk 4 days ago | 144 comments
6. Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them (allvpv.org)
   234 points by signa11 21 days ago | 185 comments
7. Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) (technology.riotgames.com)
   220 points by nairadithya 28 days ago | 128 comments
8. Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault (www.nytimes.com)
   158 points by elahieh 18 days ago | 133 comments
9. Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] (scamcouver.wordpress.com)
   135 points by thomassmith65 23 days ago | 67 comments
10. Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants (lwn.net)
    135 points by WhyNotHugo 3 days ago | 1 comments
11. Quantifying pass-by-value overhead (owen.cafe)
    116 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 28 comments
12. Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
    98 points by FromTheArchives 18 days ago | 44 comments
13. Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires (www.chibiakumas.com)
    97 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 11 comments
14. Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April (www.cnbc.com)
    88 points by rntn 23 days ago | 159 comments
15. Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    85 points by adamors 2 days ago | 85 comments
16. Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley (www.bbc.com)
    79 points by RyanShook 24 days ago | 68 comments
17. CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization (marcobambini.substack.com)
    78 points by marcobambini 25 days ago | 16 comments
18. Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers (www.washingtonpost.com)
    68 points by bookofjoe 9 days ago | 29 comments
19. Validating your ideas on strangers (2017) (jeremyaboyd.com)
    67 points by tacon 10 days ago | 36 comments
20. Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium (github.com)
    66 points by jqssun 8 days ago | 29 comments
21. Quarter of American employees haven't taken a vacation day in the past year (sherwood.news)
    66 points by avonmach 7 days ago | 22 comments
22. Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent (www.nytimes.com)
    61 points by Peacefulz 8 days ago | 103 comments
23. Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You (www.motherjones.com)
    60 points by sipofwater 20 days ago | 4 comments
24. Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets (www.thetimes.com)
    59 points by nreece 11 days ago | 97 comments
25. Amazon Rivian electric delivery vans arrive in Canada (cleantechnica.com)
    54 points by TMWNN about 22 hours ago | 55 comments
26. Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021) (mazzo.li)
    47 points by shoo 24 days ago | 14 comments
27. CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs (www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com)
    43 points by saubeidl 22 days ago | 92 comments
28. Vali, a C library for Varlink (emersion.fr)
    43 points by GalaxySnail 24 days ago | 15 comments
29. Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway (www.tomshardware.com)
    43 points by toomanyrichies 2 days ago | 4 comments
30. Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases (www.sciencealert.com)
    35 points by fluxist 13 days ago | 1 comments