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TruffleLabs··on Eat Real Food
Kellanova, formerly known as the Kellogg Company, got the message and are now making Pop-Tarts with extra protein ;)

https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/new/pop-tarts-protei...

TruffleLabs··on The Origins of APL (1974) [video]
For some more APL history see the "50 Years of APL" at the Dyalog URL

https://www.dyalog.com/50-years-of-apl.htm

TruffleLabs··on Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia

Vs

https://grokipedia.com/page/Wikipedia

TruffleLabs··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
"“When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity. This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world,” posted Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, back on October 14, 2025."

That feature of showing where an account was created was on for a bit and then turned off... it highlights that many accounts implying they are in the USA are actually not and probably not who they claim to be.

TruffleLabs··on How I am deeply integrating Emacs
Like the writers that are looking for the best {pen, keyboard, paper} before they start to write... and they continue to look for the best thing to make them great writers ...
TruffleLabs··on 'Wetware': Scientists use human mini-brains to power computers
"Biocomputing could help address the skyrocketing energy demands of AI, which threatens climate emissions targets and led some tech giants to resort to nuclear power"

I'm reminded of the Battlestar Galactica episode "You Can't Go Home Again" where Starbuck repairs a crashed Cylon ship to get home. The main element she had to figure out is how the biological brain of the Cylon controlled the hardware.

TruffleLabs··on Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%
"A decompilation of Duke Nukem Zero Hour for N64.

Note: To use this repository, you must already own a copy of the game."

TruffleLabs··on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?
More info here

https://viewfromthewing.com/united-captain-says-his-plane-wa...

TruffleLabs··on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
PDP-8 has a 12-bit word size
TruffleLabs··on When is it the best time to post on Show HN?
What is your desired definition of "best"?

Most readers on initial posting?

Quality comments?

Quantity traffic on shown website?

TruffleLabs··on A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers
Secret is still sensitive info and, if released, can cause harm or disruption.

Spying is not based on finding a single discovery of top secret information but a continuous process of pulling various pieces together. A "secret" item by itself may not cause bad things to happen but combined with other information could result in far greater damage.

TruffleLabs··on A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
TruffleLabs··on Why is every successful tech founder an Ivy League graduate
What data source and date range are you using to make this comparison?
TruffleLabs··on The Hewlett-Packard Archive
FYI they say "Computers and calculators are not the focus of this archive website."
TruffleLabs··on Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe
Reading about Anne Wojcicki in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki

"On March 24, 2025, it was reported that 23andMe had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Wojcicki had resigned as CEO effective immediately but would remain on the company’s board.[22] On June 13, 2025, Wojcicki regained control of 23andMe through a $305 million deal, buying back nearly all of the company's assets."

There is some concern that the person who was CEO through the bankruptcy is now ready to reacquire it. What will change?

TruffleLabs··on Bill Atkinson has died
I loved his PhotoCard app as it allowed for image customization of the stamp and ability to be printed on very high quality card stock and ink.
TruffleLabs··on Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
This has some great background on Forth's history and use at observatories.

"The evolution of Forth | History of programming languages---II" - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/234286.1057832

TruffleLabs··on If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999)
This is a form of machine learning and is within the realm of artificial intelligence. In 1961 this was definitely leading edge :)

"Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...

"The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (sometimes called the Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine or MENACE) was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by returning a move for any given state of play and to refine its strategy through reinforcement learning. This was one of the first types of artificial intelligence."

TruffleLabs··on Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
And Forth was invented by Charles Moore while at NRAO!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore?wprov=sfti1#E...

"In 1968, while employed at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Moore invented the initial version of the Forth language to help control radio telescopes."

TruffleLabs··on Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)
I believe phones can be addictive.

I do want to point out =>

"The attention span myth - No, the average human attention span is not 1 second less than that of the goldfish."

https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/the-attention-span-myth

TruffleLabs··on 3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine
Via Wikipedia "The bombe was an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II."

Learn more about the Bombe Machine here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

TruffleLabs··on Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware
For clarity this is what was said about emailing and confirming authentication of data: "To confirm the authenticity of the data, I messaged multiple email addresses listed in the database and explained that I was investigating a data exposure that may have involved their information. I was able to validate several records as these individuals confirmed that the records contained their accurate and valid passwords."
TruffleLabs··on The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]
Byte was a magazine I always looked forward to receiving as it had a great connection via the writers to what was happening in the computer and software world.
TruffleLabs··on On Lisp (1993)
Building Scheme in Scheme is what I did in a class in 1982 with Prof. Dan Friedman, one of the Little Lisper authors.

This was during a period of language research where Scheme in Scheme in Scheme was being used to look in to how to reflection (look into programs and how they behave).

The Little Lisper was a starting point for students to learn lisp (or Scheme) and get used to tail recursion and short focused functions.

TruffleLabs··on Classic Computer Replicas
Art of Digital Design: An Introduction to Top-Down Design - Prosser & Winkel, I took their graduate class in 1990 at IU Bloomington.

In this class I & my lab partner designed and built a PDP-8 out of PALs on a wire wrapped board. And we loaded code from old paper tape sources as part of the testing. It was a fun class :)

TruffleLabs··on Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
So the bad people go to zip codes not on the list???
TruffleLabs··on America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown
Archive link https://archive.ph/GDkyg
TruffleLabs··on Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'
And why was this flagged? It is real news about technology.
TruffleLabs··on Recording reveals new details on controversial DOGE employee Edward Coristine
Sounds like the story has confirmation thru several sources.
TruffleLabs··on Thinking Machines Lab
Not to be confused with Thinking Machines Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

"Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product named the Connection Machine."

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