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| The best articles from spectrum.ieee.org, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2017 | | Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 741 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2019 | | How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 719 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2019 | | In 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 360 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 353 points | 3 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 1985 | | Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 336 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 2001 | | An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2004 | | How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 179 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2016 | | Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 178 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2018 | | Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 176 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2011 | | 75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 169 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2013 | | The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 169 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2013 | | The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 166 points | 2 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2017 | | JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 149 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2010 | | Dell Tried to Hide Bad Capacitors Problem 2003-2005 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 149 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments |
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| 1984 | | Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 129 points | 9 months ago with 57 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2017 | | Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 127 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments |
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| 1988 | | Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 125 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments |
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| 2009 | | Java’s Forgotten Forebear (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2012 | | San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 120 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Video Game Software Wizardry of Id (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 113 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2018 | | Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 110 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2014 | | Candy Wrappers Are Listening (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 109 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 108 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1983 | | Inventing the Atari 2600 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 103 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2009 | | Automated to Death (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 100 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2018 | | The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 97 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2015 | | Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 88 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 87 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2009 | | Microchips That Shook the World (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 87 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2014 | | I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 82 points | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 1985 | | Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2009 | | The LED's Dark Secret (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2016 | | London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 78 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Athens Affair – The most audacious cell-network break-in (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 77 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2013 | | What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 76 points | 10 months ago with 63 comments |
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| 2016 | | Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 73 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2012 | | How RCA Lost the LCD (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 71 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2004 | | Closing in on the “perfect code” (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 71 points | 11 months ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 68 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2018 | | How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 68 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Truth About Terahertz (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 63 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2005 | | Of Modes and Men (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1999 | | 'Minting' electronic cash (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 60 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2007 | | Cracking Go (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 58 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial Success (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2015 | | Let’s Build a Global Power Grid (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 57 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2005 | | A small British firm shows that software bugs aren't inevitable (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 55 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why CPU Frequency Stalled (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 51 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments |
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