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New comment by 9front in "A History of IDEs at Google"

9front — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:22:35 +0000

Is the V in Cider-V the Roman numeral 5 or V like in Visual?

New comment by 9front in "Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement"

9front — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:06:14 +0000

Apple needs Intel to make the chips!

New comment by 9front in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

9front — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:47:32 +0000

"... we have an odor on the plane as well here at this time. We are going to be going back to the gate, request fire as well." - United pilot

"2384, it is oder like a smoke odor ...like from fire?" - Control

"No, it was a weird odor. I don't know exactly how to describe it. But yeah... we can't get a hold of anyone at the ops for a gate assignment." - United pilot

"Ground, United 2384 is declaring an emergency. The flight attendants in the back are feeling ill because of the odor. We will need to go into an available gate at this time." - United pilot

"... the fire trucks are over there. They're going to bring a stair truck just in case you guys do want to evacuate. Let me know if you do." - Control

"Copy, yeah, we prefer to wait on a gate, but I mean, again, we only got so much time here because there's still a bit of odor in the back of the airplane." - United pilot

"646, number two, clear to land 4." - Control

"Truck one and company, cross four Delta." - Control

"Truck one and company, crossing four at Delta." - Truck 1

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, Truck 1. Stop,stop, stop. Stop, Truck 1, Stop." - Control

"That was - that wasn't good to watch." - Frontier pilot

"Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to [inaudible]. We were dealing with an emergency earlier... um, I messed up." - Control

"No, man, you did the best you could." -Frontier pilot

Spark Arena

9front — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:20:13 +0000

Article URL: https://spark-arena.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976889

Points: 1

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New comment by 9front in "Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program"

9front — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:53:21 +0000

And 'vmlinux' was inspired by the 'vmunix' (Virtual Memory Unix) the UNIX kernel.

New comment by 9front in "Asus Ascent GX10"

9front — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:02:12 +0000

DGXOS is a customized Ubuntu Noble!

/etc/os-release:

  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS"
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION_ID="24.04"
  VERSION="24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
  VERSION_CODENAME=noble
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
  PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
  LOGO=ubuntu-logo

and /etc/dgx-release:

  DGX_NAME="DGX Spark"
  DGX_PRETTY_NAME="NVIDIA DGX Spark"
  DGX_SWBUILD_DATE="2025-09-10-13-50-03"
  DGX_SWBUILD_VERSION="7.2.3"
  DGX_COMMIT_ID="833b4a7"
  DGX_PLATFORM="DGX Server for KVM"
  DGX_SERIAL_NUMBER="Not Specified"

While other Linux distros were already reported to work, some tools provide by Nvidia won't work with Fedora or NixOS. Not yet!

I couldn't get Nvidia AI Workbench to start on Neon KDE after changing to DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu in /etc/lsb-release. Neon is based on Ubuntu Noble too.

New comment by 9front in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

9front — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:22:59 +0000

Just donated $100 to ZSF via ever.org!

New comment by 9front in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

9front — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:18:32 +0000

Very well done, sir! Now you challenged me to make a donation also. However, as an individual I assure you that it won't match yours.

New comment by 9front in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

9front — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:57:34 +0000

That's a pledge only! Let me know when Synadia & TiregBeetle actually send money to Zig Foundation.

New comment by 9front in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

9front — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:25:01 +0000

Before WSL, Microsoft provided "Windows Services for UNIX" to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Windows into your UNIX environment."

The same Windows services are provided to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Widows into your Linux environment."

WSU became WSL!

New comment by 9front in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

9front — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:16:44 +0000

United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel while circling Portland International Airport trying to troubleshoot a landing gear. Six more minutes of fuel could have helped the airliner to land in the Columbia river by the airport or belly land on the runway. The captain chose to keep troubleshooting and crashed just 6 miles away from the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173

Edit Back in Windows

9front — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:47:09 +0000

"edit" the new TUI text editor is part of Windows 25H2 now! KB5065789 contains:

  Name            : edit.exe
  CommandType     : Application
  Definition      : C:\WINDOWS\system32\edit.exe
  Extension       : .exe
  Path            : C:\WINDOWS\system32\edit.exe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542991

Points: 1

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New comment by 9front in "Why do we need MAC addresses?"

9front — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:54:28 +0000

True. In the Second Edition the Preface mentioned that "Finally, the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10" and some of those systems were connected mostly via telephone lines.

The article refers to a "typical packet found on a typical network" then describes an Ethernet frame, so the author clearly refers to MACs in an Ethernet setup.

MAC is part of the Ethernet standard. The clue of why is needed for is in the name "access control". Without MAC there's no Ethernet. Without Ethernet there's no Internet.

Wait ...there are other networking standards!

New comment by 9front in "Why do we need MAC addresses?"

9front — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:37:18 +0000

"The Internet doesn't use MAC addresses, and Internet packets don't have MAC addresses" is a wrong assumption. What's an "Internet packet"? Without MACs there's no networking. Without networking there's no Internet.

New comment by 9front in "Why do we need MAC addresses?"

9front — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:04:55 +0000

Media Access Control (MAC) address is the method to control access to the physical transmission medium. A switch doesn't care about your upper layers (IP, TCP, etc.) but won't find your host without a MAC address. That's why MACs are called hardware address and work on the local link only, from the port on your cool network interface to the other end of the cable or radio signal.

New comment by 9front in "Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel"

9front — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:38:31 +0000

The Itanium was a new 64bit architecture. AMD64 is just addition to the 32bit Intel architecture. Itanium didn't make it, so we're stuck with backward compatibility all the way to 8080 in today's x86 processors. That's all in the past! What I'm looking forward is to the future SoC releases with Intel cores and Nvidia graphics.

New comment by 9front in "Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems"

9front — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:55:42 +0000

Homepage: https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

Nvidia to Invest Up to $100B in OpenAI

9front — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:19:52 +0000

Article URL: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336583

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by 9front in "Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU"

9front — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:31:52 +0000

He's using "Linux Mint" for OS. Should have used "Coffee Linux" instead.

New Intel Arc Pro GPUs Are on the Way. See You in Taipei

9front — Thu, 08 May 2025 04:42:33 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/intel/status/1920241029804064796

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43923112

Points: 1

# Comments: 0