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The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-14 Cached

In a rare interview, George Lucas discusses the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, reflecting on his career, his pioneering role in film technology, and his philosophy that art is in the eye of the beholder.

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Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

The Verge · 2026-07-12 Cached

Apple's failed self-driving car program led to the development of the Neural Engine and powerful on-device AI chips, which now underpin Apple's AI hardware strategy, including upcoming M7 chips with significant Neural Engine upgrades.

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PowerFox Browser

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-21 Cached

PowerFox is a modern browser for older macOS versions (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) that brings security updates, language packs, and modern web standards support.

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@iamcheyan: Recently we were doing data migration and needed to build a comparison tool to verify the migration results. I said I could do it, and Python would be very suitable for this. But after a round of discussions, they decided to implement it in COBOL instead, claiming they've been using it for over 50 years... The ancestral methods must not change.

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-06-20

When migrating data, the author proposed using Python to build a comparison tool, but the team insisted on using COBOL due to historical reasons (over 50 years of use), reflecting the inertia of legacy technology.

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What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-05-19 Cached

An exploration of the origin of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code from MS-DOS, its meaning in memory management, and why it's no longer used in Win32 but persists as a legacy code.

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Birth of AI/Steve

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence · 2026-05-18 Cached

Dr. Steven Mascall shares his personal story from neural network research in 1988 to building the AI Steve system, and developing an app for commemorating loved ones and friends, as well as a food health app, emphasizing dopamine-driven curiosity and the arrival of the era of the super individual.

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@sulekhat95: A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-05-17 Cached

A tweet shares the story of an MIT professor who gave his last lecture before dying, distilling his life's knowledge into one hour.

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How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file?

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-05-04 Cached

This article explains that Windows does not have a built-in concept of binary vs. text mode at the OS level; such distinctions are handled by runtime libraries like the C runtime. It clarifies that all files are treated as bytes by Windows and that content transformations must be done manually or via libraries.

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