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rbanffy

197,154 karma · joined March 12, 2008

Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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http://about.me/rbanffy

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The First Microbe for Mars

blog.pioneer-labs.org·4 pts·rbanffy·
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Empire of Grift

theatlantic.com·8 pts·rbanffy·
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CP/M-80 2.2 Compilers. (Update from June 19, 2026: Dave Glover – by David Lee

medium.com·3 pts·rbanffy·
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Ten thousand magnets later – CERN Courier

cerncourier.com·4 pts·rbanffy·
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Empire of Grift

theatlantic.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Tables and Strings in COBOL - Big Data like it's 1985

datagubbe.se·2 pts·rbanffy·
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16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

allpoetry.com·135 pts·rbanffy·
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The Home Computer Generation

datagubbe.se·3 pts·rbanffy·
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Picking the right (archaic) Window Manager

datagubbe.se·1 pts·rbanffy·
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AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time

tomshardware.com·4 pts·rbanffy·
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Futurama, the Prototype of the American Highway-City – Senses Atlas

sensesatlas.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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General Motors Futurama – influx magazine

adrianflux.co.uk·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Alibaba Contributing $3M USD to Omarchy to Work on Making "Ideal" Agentic OS

phoronix.com·6 pts·rbanffy·
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New England RetroFest and the Maine Vintage Computer Society

goto10retro.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Accelerated Server Sales Are Themselves Accelerating

nextplatform.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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FCIA's FC-SP-3: A Standard Ready for the Quantum-Computing World

storagereview.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Can Apple Reference Image Make You Trust Photos Again

spectrum.ieee.org·3 pts·rbanffy·
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Local Model Citizen Outpaces DGX Spark and Threadripper

tomshardware.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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Saudi Arabia wants a car industry, launches Ceer with two EVs

arstechnica.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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CP/M-80 2.2 Compilers

medium.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Patches Posted with Aim to Mainline Linux Kernel Support for the Amazon Kindle 4

phoronix.com·3 pts·rbanffy·
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Barry Blitt's "Pulling the Plug"

newyorker.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets

arstechnica.com·3 pts·rbanffy·
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AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time

tomshardware.com·3 pts·rbanffy·
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Aqua: Hardware-Agnostic Qubit Allocation for Quantum Multi-Programming

ieeexplore.ieee.org·1 pts·rbanffy·
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ROM Magazine Interviews Roberta Williams (1983)

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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Microsoft Systems Journal Interviews Gordon Letwin (1987)

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com·1 pts·rbanffy·
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How to Smash the Memory Wall Plaguing High Performance Systems

nextplatform.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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Bull Beats Out HPE for Next-Gen Lumi AI Supercomputer

nextplatform.com·2 pts·rbanffy·
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Metadata requests no longer tracked in PyPI download counts

blog.pypi.org·1 pts·rbanffy·
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