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How did China out‑engineer the entire EV ecosystem? BYD’s supply‑chain dominance, massive state backing, domestic scale and lightning‑fast iteration turned the race into a masterclass. What can Western automakers learn? Rebecca Fannin, author of The New Tech Titans of China, breaks it down in our latest episode. Watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/1q9B1cR_KL8 #BYD #ChinaTech #EV #TechHistory #EVStrategy

How did China out‑engineer the entire EV ecosystem? BYD’s supply‑chain dominance, massive state backing, domestic scale and lightning‑fast iteration turned the race into a masterclass. What can Western automakers learn? Rebecca Fannin, author of The New Tech Titans of China, breaks it down in our latest episode. Watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/1q9B1cR_KL8 #BYD #ChinaTech #EV #TechHistory #EVStrategy

🚀🖥️ Wow, breaking news: a top-secret Cold War IBM supercomputer was designed exclusively to conjure the elusive 403 Forbidden error! 🤦‍♂️ Because apparently, even back then, the world needed more mysterious browser blocks and cache server mysteries! 🙃
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm #ColdWarTech #Supercomputers #IBM403Forbidden #BrowserMysteries #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🖥️ Wow, breaking news: a top-secret Cold War IBM supercomputer was designed exclusively to conjure the elusive 403 Forbidden error! 🤦‍♂️ Because apparently, even back then, the world needed more mysterious browser blocks and cache server mysteries! 🙃
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm #ColdWarTech #Supercomputers #IBM403Forbidden #BrowserMysteries #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🖥️ Wow, breaking news: a top-secret Cold War IBM supercomputer was designed exclusively to conjure the elusive 403 Forbidden error! 🤦‍♂️ Because apparently, even back then, the world needed more mysterious browser blocks and cache server mysteries! 🙃
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm #ColdWarTech #Supercomputers #IBM403Forbidden #BrowserMysteries #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🖥️ Wow, breaking news: a top-secret Cold War IBM supercomputer was designed exclusively to conjure the elusive 403 Forbidden error! 🤦‍♂️ Because apparently, even back then, the world needed more mysterious browser blocks and cache server mysteries! 🙃
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm #ColdWarTech #Supercomputers #IBM403Forbidden #BrowserMysteries #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🖥️ Wow, breaking news: a top-secret Cold War IBM supercomputer was designed exclusively to conjure the elusive 403 Forbidden error! 🤦‍♂️ Because apparently, even back then, the world needed more mysterious browser blocks and cache server mysteries! 🙃
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm #ColdWarTech #Supercomputers #IBM403Forbidden #BrowserMysteries #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802

#HackerNews #StalkingTheWilyHacker #CliffStoll #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #HackerNews

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802

#HackerNews #StalkingTheWilyHacker #CliffStoll #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #HackerNews

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802

#HackerNews #StalkingTheWilyHacker #CliffStoll #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #HackerNews

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802

#HackerNews #StalkingTheWilyHacker #CliffStoll #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #HackerNews

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802

#HackerNews #StalkingTheWilyHacker #CliffStoll #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #HackerNews

Geoffrey Cain reflects on Steve Jobs' visionary streak: "If you were sitting at the NeXT computer in 1990, you were looking 20 years into the future." His reality-distortion field drove innovation—and sometimes blinded him. Object-oriented programming? Drag-and-drop? Jobs was shaping today's tech 40 years ago. What does it mean to be ahead of your time? Let's chat. Watch on YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/vnqxatJagbg #TechHistory #ComputingHistory

Geoffrey Cain reflects on Steve Jobs' visionary streak: "If you were sitting at the NeXT computer in 1990, you were looking 20 years into the future." His reality-distortion field drove innovation—and sometimes blinded him. Object-oriented programming? Drag-and-drop? Jobs was shaping today's tech 40 years ago. What does it mean to be ahead of your time? Let's chat. Watch on YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/vnqxatJagbg #TechHistory #ComputingHistory

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800

#HackerNews #vintageAI #artificialintelligence #techhistory #nostalgia #machinelearning

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800

#HackerNews #vintageAI #artificialintelligence #techhistory #nostalgia #machinelearning

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800

#HackerNews #vintageAI #artificialintelligence #techhistory #nostalgia #machinelearning

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800

#HackerNews #vintageAI #artificialintelligence #techhistory #nostalgia #machinelearning

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800

#HackerNews #vintageAI #artificialintelligence #techhistory #nostalgia #machinelearning

Fun fact ergonomie :
En 1980, Philips a quasiment inventé la télécommande universelle avec la série PDSF. Un pavé pour le téléviseur K12, un pavé pour le magnétoscope V2000, le tout en infrarouge codé. Un chef-d'œuvre de plastique noir et de boutons en caoutchouc rigide qui pesait son poids en piles 9V. 🔋📡

As-tu connu ?

#RetroComputing #TechHistory #DesignGeek #Philips

Fun fact ergonomie :
En 1980, Philips a quasiment inventé la télécommande universelle avec la série PDSF. Un pavé pour le téléviseur K12, un pavé pour le magnétoscope V2000, le tout en infrarouge codé. Un chef-d'œuvre de plastique noir et de boutons en caoutchouc rigide qui pesait son poids en piles 9V. 🔋📡

As-tu connu ?

#RetroComputing #TechHistory #DesignGeek #Philips

Fun fact ergonomie :
En 1980, Philips a quasiment inventé la télécommande universelle avec la série PDSF. Un pavé pour le téléviseur K12, un pavé pour le magnétoscope V2000, le tout en infrarouge codé. Un chef-d'œuvre de plastique noir et de boutons en caoutchouc rigide qui pesait son poids en piles 9V. 🔋📡

As-tu connu ?

#RetroComputing #TechHistory #DesignGeek #Philips

Fun fact ergonomie :
En 1980, Philips a quasiment inventé la télécommande universelle avec la série PDSF. Un pavé pour le téléviseur K12, un pavé pour le magnétoscope V2000, le tout en infrarouge codé. Un chef-d'œuvre de plastique noir et de boutons en caoutchouc rigide qui pesait son poids en piles 9V. 🔋📡

As-tu connu ?

#RetroComputing #TechHistory #DesignGeek #Philips

Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amcgl

Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amcgl

Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amcgl

Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amcgl

Steve Wozniak built for the love of it. Levy shows where that drive came from — and the culture that made it possible.
#books #bookreview #SteveWozniak #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amcgl

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333

#HackerNews #Athlon #TechHistory #CPU #Nostalgia #OS2Museum

Fact:
During the first iPhone presentation in 2007, Steve Jobs had to switch between several iPhones to prevent crashes due to limited RAM and unstable software.

#FactFriday
#TechHistory
#SteveJobs
#iphone

Fact:
During the first iPhone presentation in 2007, Steve Jobs had to switch between several iPhones to prevent crashes due to limited RAM and unstable software.

#FactFriday
#TechHistory
#SteveJobs
#iphone

Fact:
During the first iPhone presentation in 2007, Steve Jobs had to switch between several iPhones to prevent crashes due to limited RAM and unstable software.

#FactFriday
#TechHistory
#SteveJobs
#iphone

Fact:
During the first iPhone presentation in 2007, Steve Jobs had to switch between several iPhones to prevent crashes due to limited RAM and unstable software.

#FactFriday
#TechHistory
#SteveJobs
#iphone

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180

#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180

#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180

#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180

#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180

#HackerNews #Japan #OperatingSystem #USIntervention #TechHistory #GlobalTech

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329919

#HackerNews #CaptainZilog #ZilogTech #RetroComputing #TechHistory #GeekCulture

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329919

#HackerNews #CaptainZilog #ZilogTech #RetroComputing #TechHistory #GeekCulture

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329919

#HackerNews #CaptainZilog #ZilogTech #RetroComputing #TechHistory #GeekCulture

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329919

#HackerNews #CaptainZilog #ZilogTech #RetroComputing #TechHistory #GeekCulture

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329919

#HackerNews #CaptainZilog #ZilogTech #RetroComputing #TechHistory #GeekCulture

✍️ În memoria omului care a creat sublinierile roșii și verzi din Microsoft Word (Tony Krueger)

Tony Krueger, un inginer legendar de la Microsoft al cărui nume este mai puțin cunoscut publicului, dar a cărui muncă a influențat sute de milioane de utilizatori din întreaga lume.

👨‍💻 Un pionier al aplicației Microsoft Word:
• Tony Krueger a lucrat la versiunile de început ale Microsoft Word (Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0), la portările pentru OS/2 și Mac, precum și la Word 6.0 și versiunile ulterioare, deținând probabil recordul pentru cele mai multe versiuni de Word livrate.
• Deși este menționat pe Wikipedia pentru că a portat jocul clasic Chip's Challenge pe Windows pentru pachetul Windows Entertainment Pack, adevărata sa moștenire tehnologică este alta.
🔴 Invenția verificării ortografice în fundal (Squiggly Lines):
• Înainte de intervenția sa, verificarea ortografică era o acțiune manuală, ce întrerupea procesul de scriere și deschidea ferestre pop-up.
• Tony a optimizat procesul pentru a rula discret în fundal și a introdus celebra subliniere ondulată roșie pentru cuvinte greșite și, ulterior, linia ondulată verde pentru erori de gramatică.
🎭 O anecdotă legendară cu Penn & Teller:
• Raymond Chen povestește cum un coleg, aflat la un spectacol al celebrului duo de iluzioniști Penn & Teller, le-a cerut o autogramă pe o fotografie pentru Tony.
• Când le-a explicat că „Tony este omul din echipa care a făcut liniile roșii și verzi în Word”, Teller — cunoscut pentru faptul că nu vorbește niciodată pe scenă — a ieșit din personaj și a exclamat uimit: „That was HIM?!” („El a fost?!”).
Un tribut adus unui inginer extraordinar ale cărui inovații de interfață (UI/UX) au devenit un standard universal în editarea digitală de text! 🚀
#Microsoft #MicrosoftWord #OldNewThing #RaymondChen #Word #TechHistory #UX #SoftwareEngineering #TechNews

🎩🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, the #CIA moonlit as Silicon Valley's sugar daddy in the 80s, keeping #NeXT alive while Steve Jobs played magician with taxpayer dollars. 💸💻 Meanwhile, readers are left with more dead ends than a WSJ 404 page. 🙄📄
https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #SiliconValley #SteveJobs #TechHistory #TaxpayerDollars #HackerNews #ngated

From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.

https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds

#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI

From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.

https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds

#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI

From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.

https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds

#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI

From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.

https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds

#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI

From 1966's ELIZA to modern LLMs, humanity repeatedly mistakes impressive machine outputs for subjective awareness. Modern AI predicts tokens—it doesn't experience life. Convincing performance isn't sentience.

https://hackernoon.com/the-machines-we-keep-mistaking-for-minds

#TTMO #AI #TechHistory #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI

Short punchy stories instead of dry chapters. Read it in pieces or one go. Either way you won't want to stop.
#books #bookreview #techhistory #Apple
https://smpl.is/am9s5

Short punchy stories instead of dry chapters. Read it in pieces or one go. Either way you won't want to stop.
#books #bookreview #techhistory #Apple
https://smpl.is/am9s5