Ever wondered what happens when you mix your grandma's
#knitting patterns with 1980s assembly language? 🤔 Welcome to the world of Core War warriors, where digital gladiators throw virtual knitting needles to crash each other's imaginary computers. 😂 Spoiler alert: watching paint dry might be more exciting than this spectacle of "advanced" coding strategies. 🖥️💥
https://sakana.ai/drq/ #CoreWar #DigitalGladiators #CodingHumor #AssemblyLanguage #1980sTech #HackerNews #ngated
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Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
💾🤡 BREAKING NEWS: Local "Computer Wizard" spends a whole day using 1980's tech to outsmart $200 software protection system. Apparently, our hero invested in a legit license just to flex their floppy disk
#hacking skills. Lesson learned: Software developers, beware of the Copy-Paste Sorcerer! 🧙♂️✨
https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector/ #ComputerWizard #1980sTech #FloppyDisk #SoftwareProtection #CopyPasteSorcerer #HackerNews #ngated
i cracked a $200 software protection in a day with xcopy
reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.
Behold, the technological marvel of 1980s nerd wizardry: convincing two ancient processors to awkwardly share a dorm room, aka memory, on the Apple II 📟🤦♂️. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s blog post forgets what brevity means and drones on like a developer's stream of consciousness 🤯💤.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251104-00/?p=111758 #1980sTech #AppleII #ProcessorSharing #MicrosoftBlogging #NerdCulture #HackerNews #ngated
The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share the same memory - The Old New Thing
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
. Imagine checking remotely if your drink was cold and available! This early IoT experiment laid the groundwork for today's smart tech.
#IoT #TechHistory #Innovation #SmartDevices #1980sTech #ConnectedFuture (2/2)
Did you know the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) existed in the 1980s? 🤯 The first IoT device was a Coca-Cola vending machine at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982! 🍾 This genius setup let users check drink availability & temps remotely via a simple computer system. A true pioneer of smart tech! 💡
#IoT #TechHistory #Innovation #SmartTech #CocaCola #1980sTech (1/1)
🚀 Ah, the miraculous "In-Memory C++ Leap" 😂—because nothing screams cutting-edge blockchain analysis like recycling 1980s tech. 🤖 It's all about AI-powered
#buzzwords for the truly oblivious! 🧠💥
https://caudena.com/the-in-memory-c-leap-in-blockchain-analysis/ #InMemoryCPlusPlus #BlockchainAnalysis #AI #1980sTech #HackerNews #ngated
The In-Memory C++ Leap in Blockchain Analysis - Caudena
Real-Time, Court-Admissible Crypto Intelligence at 1/400th the Cost of Inferior Legacy Systems The explosion of blockchain data isn't just a challenge; it's a crisis for conventional analytics. Financial institutions, investigators, and law enforcement agencies are hamstrung by tools that are too slow, expensive, and built on legacy database technologies incapable of keeping pace. Critical insights
Ah, the Sinclair C5—a testament to the 1980s' tech optimism and proof that engineers shouldn't design bicycles 🚲. Restoring this relic is like trying to make your grandma's rotary phone run on 5G 📞. Meanwhile, in a parallel universe,
#Mastodon is still fighting the good fight against JavaScript, one browser tab at a time 😂.
https://woof.tech/@crashtestdev/114411537491626882 #SinclairC5 #1980sTech #RetroRestoration #JavaScriptWars #HackerNews #ngated
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Some background on the Sinclair C5, I saw this listed on eBay in the early hours of last Wednesday morning, going through the pictures, it was probably the cheapest complete C5 I have seen, obviously, I bought it
I was lucky enough to be able to go pick it up that very evening, only to discover not only was it complete, it was in fantastic condition; it's current owner got it from new in 1988 for £140 from Comet electrical in Sheffield (original receipt was included in the paperwork), obviously the C5 originally sold for £399 in 1985 and Sinclair Vehicles went bust within 6 months so this was probably a desperate attempt to clear remaining stock, the C5 was developed in Cambridge (completely flat), and with the current owner being in South Yorkshire (VERY hilly), unsurprisingly it saw limited use, before being put in a garage for nearly 40 years until I came along
It was just dirty with a few fairly minimal scratches and some damage to the lower reflective trim (understandable), there was no battery, which is not a problem as it only needs a 12v lead acid battery and the original would be long dead by now anyway, but it did have it's original charger, which is nice even if I'm not sure what I can actually do with it
#sinclair #sinclairc5 #c5 #VintageTechnology
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