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. Ask HN: Stories from Users of Minicomputers and Mainframes
   2 points by rwallace 1 day ago | 2 comments
2. John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com)
   514 points by azhenley 7 days ago | 623 comments
3. Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation (valetudo.cloud)
   391 points by freetonik 17 days ago | 213 comments
4. Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway (www.tomshardware.com)
   348 points by toomanyrichies 5 days ago | 144 comments
5. Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features (blog.torproject.org)
   347 points by HelloUsername 21 days ago | 219 comments
6. SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python (antocuni.eu)
   271 points by og_kalu 7 days ago | 129 comments
7. Introducing architecture variants (discourse.ubuntu.com)
   242 points by jnsgruk 7 days ago | 145 comments
8. Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them (allvpv.org)
   234 points by signa11 24 days ago | 185 comments
9. Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault (www.nytimes.com)
   158 points by elahieh 21 days ago | 133 comments
10. Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes (www.theguardian.com)
    141 points by c420 2 days ago | 33 comments
11. Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] (scamcouver.wordpress.com)
    135 points by thomassmith65 26 days ago | 67 comments
12. Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants (lwn.net)
    135 points by WhyNotHugo 6 days ago | 1 comments
13. Quantifying pass-by-value overhead (owen.cafe)
    116 points by todsacerdoti 10 days ago | 28 comments
14. Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires (www.chibiakumas.com)
    99 points by surprisetalk 12 days ago | 11 comments
15. Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
    98 points by FromTheArchives 21 days ago | 44 comments
16. Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April (www.cnbc.com)
    88 points by rntn 26 days ago | 159 comments
17. Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    86 points by adamors 5 days ago | 85 comments
18. Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley (www.bbc.com)
    79 points by RyanShook 27 days ago | 68 comments
19. CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization (marcobambini.substack.com)
    78 points by marcobambini 28 days ago | 16 comments
20. Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium (github.com)
    68 points by jqssun 11 days ago | 30 comments
21. Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers (www.washingtonpost.com)
    68 points by bookofjoe 12 days ago | 29 comments
22. Validating your ideas on strangers (2017) (jeremyaboyd.com)
    67 points by tacon 13 days ago | 36 comments
23. Quarter of American employees haven't taken a vacation day in the past year (sherwood.news)
    66 points by avonmach 10 days ago | 22 comments
24. Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent (www.nytimes.com)
    61 points by Peacefulz 11 days ago | 103 comments
25. Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You (www.motherjones.com)
    60 points by sipofwater 23 days ago | 4 comments
26. Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets (www.thetimes.com)
    59 points by nreece 15 days ago | 97 comments
27. Amazon Rivian electric delivery vans arrive in Canada (cleantechnica.com)
    55 points by TMWNN 4 days ago | 55 comments
28. Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021) (mazzo.li)
    47 points by shoo 27 days ago | 14 comments
29. CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs (www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com)
    43 points by saubeidl 26 days ago | 92 comments
30. Vali, a C library for Varlink (emersion.fr)
    43 points by GalaxySnail 27 days ago | 15 comments