How AMD Broke Into CPUs 50 Years Ago With an Intel 8080 Clone
TL;DR Fifty years ago AMD entered the microprocessor market by producing the Am9080, a reverse-engineered clone of Intel's 8080. The…
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions — Forecasts for Bluesky, Fediverse, Threads
TL;DR A set of quantified predictions for the open social web in 2026, grouped by likelihood: mild (very likely), medium…
Mark Karpèlès Details Mt. Gox Collapse, 2015 Detention and New Projects
TL;DR Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpèlès recounted the exchange’s early failures, the 2014 loss of hundreds of thousands of…
SPICE at 40: The open-source simulator that shaped modern IC design
TL;DR SPICE, originally developed at UC Berkeley, was celebrated as a four-decade open-source success with an IEEE Milestone designation and…
Microsoft unveils Agent Framework — open-source toolkit for AI agents and workflows
TL;DR Microsoft published the Agent Framework, an open-source SDK for building LLM-powered agents and graph-based multi-agent workflows for .NET and…
Vibium: Browser automation for AI agents and human developers
TL;DR Vibium is a new browser automation tool that bundles a small Go binary with a JavaScript client to let…
Find Message Board Conversations Using Google ‘inurl’ Search Tricks
TL;DR A Hacker News commenter outlined simple Google search patterns to surface web forum threads by targeting URL fragments used…