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1.
Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
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codeberg.org/ziglang
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71 points
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nikbackm
51 days ago
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97 comments
2.
Important Clarification: Notepad++ Security Incident
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notepad-plus-plus.org
)
3 points
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nikbackm
60 days ago
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1 comment
3.
A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961
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rodneybrooks.com
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1 point
by
nikbackm
5 months ago
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4.
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1
(
randomascii.wordpress.com
)
3 points
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nikbackm
5 months ago
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5.
Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)
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acoup.blog
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2 points
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nikbackm
10 months ago
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6.
Standards for ANSI Escape Codes
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jvns.ca
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24 points
by
nikbackm
on March 8, 2025
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3 comments
7.
Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months
(
popularmechanics.com
)
4 points
by
nikbackm
on Feb 28, 2025
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3 comments
8.
Hail and Farewell (2019)
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learn.microsoft.com
)
1 point
by
nikbackm
on Jan 20, 2025
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9.
Stay Gold, America
(
codinghorror.com
)
19 points
by
nikbackm
on Jan 7, 2025
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1 comment
10.
Getting the linker to verify identical functions
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devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Dec 24, 2024
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11.
Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites
(
bleepingcomputer.com
)
4 points
by
nikbackm
on Dec 2, 2024
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4 comments
12.
Story-time: C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers
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chandlerc.blog
)
4 points
by
nikbackm
on Nov 19, 2024
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13.
Lots of PCs poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
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arstechnica.com
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Oct 15, 2024
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14.
Why It's Important to Call Bullshit on Columbus
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kleefeldoncomics.com
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Oct 14, 2024
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2 comments
15.
Is This Tomorrow?
(
kleefeldoncomics.com
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Sept 30, 2024
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16.
The case of the crash when destructing a std:map
(
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Sept 27, 2024
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17.
Reader Q&A: What's the best way to pass an istream parameter?
(
herbsutter.com
)
1 point
by
nikbackm
on Sept 3, 2024
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1 comment
18.
The CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute security descriptor
(
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Sept 2, 2024
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19.
Tales from the Far Side
(
kleefeldoncomics.com
)
168 points
by
nikbackm
on Aug 19, 2024
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38 comments
20.
Crashes and Competition
(
stratechery.com
)
3 points
by
nikbackm
on July 23, 2024
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21.
Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.
(
arstechnica.com
)
5 points
by
nikbackm
on July 10, 2024
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22.
Quick Note on Penny Singleton
(
kleefeldoncomics.com
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on June 13, 2024
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23.
Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?
(
arstechnica.com
)
4 points
by
nikbackm
on April 24, 2024
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24.
How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?
(
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
)
1 point
by
nikbackm
on April 9, 2024
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25.
The Marvels and Singularity of Vision
(
kleefeldoncomics.com
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Feb 8, 2024
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26.
Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink
(
rodneybrooks.com
)
3 points
by
nikbackm
on Dec 9, 2023
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27.
In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a "grabber"?
(
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
)
2 points
by
nikbackm
on Nov 28, 2023
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28.
China Chips and Moore's Law
(
stratechery.com
)
18 points
by
nikbackm
on Oct 18, 2023
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29.
Mysterious fast radio bursts look a lot like earthquakes, study finds
(
arstechnica.com
)
3 points
by
nikbackm
on Oct 11, 2023
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30.
32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
(
randomascii.wordpress.com
)
170 points
by
nikbackm
on Oct 2, 2023
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