Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?

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Here are a couple of resources I think can help you: – old x86 PCs boot in BIOS mode: https://opensource.com/article/17/2/linux-boot-and-startup With BIOS, your PC initializes hardware and contains firmware drivers for reading disk drives. BIOS loads the first sector (MBR) … Read more

Where has all the Chartreuse gone?

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Brother Jean-Jacques, one of monks who knows the secret recipe of Chartreuse, checking on the barrels (Jean-Pierre Clator/AFP via Getty Images) Last month, a letter from the Carthusian monks in Voiron, France circulated through the world of spirits. It was, … Read more

Where do stolen bikes go?

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Amsterdam is one of the most bike-friendly major cities in the world. That also means the city is a happy hunting ground for thieves, who steal tens of thousands of bikes per year — a substantial chunk of the estimated … Read more

Where is ChatGPT taking us? And do we want to follow?

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By Hub staff report / Published Feb 9, 2023 With its uncanny ability to mimic human language and reasoning, ChatGPT seems to herald a revolution in artificial intelligence. The nimble chatbot can conjure poems and essays, share recipes, translate languages, … Read more

Where Our Gasoline Comes From

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From refinery to consumer U.S. petroleum refineries make gasoline and other petroleum products from crude oil and other liquids that are produced in the United States or imported from other countries. Nearly all of the gasoline sold in the United … Read more

Where are my Git UI features from the future?

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Git sucks The Git version control system has been causing us misery for 15+ years. Since its inception, a thousand people have tried to make new clients for Git to improve usability. But practically everyone has focused on providing a … Read more

Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?

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OpenAI recently released ChatGPT, one of the most impressive conversational artificial intelligence systems ever created. In the first five days after its debut on November 30, over 1 million people had already interacted with the system. Since ChatGPT provides responses … Read more

Where did software go wrong?

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This post has a Portuguese translation, as well as a Russian translation provided by Leonid Popov, who runs pngflare. Computers were supposed to be “a bicycle for our minds”, machines that operated faster than the speed of thought. And if … Read more

Where has the passive radar code gone?

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This really sucks to say after putting so much effort into it, but for regulatory reasons that have just come to light we’ve had to remove the open source passive radar code that we previously provided. We’re currently consulting with … Read more