#System

The Mission America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s. Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.…

Printer used was the 20th public iteration of the Minuteman design by nozzle-head Yan Roetz.

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but…

Technology is supposed to make police work faster and safer. Most of the time it does. But every so often, a computer system hiccups, and an ordinary person

As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity.…

As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Wo...

We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system.…

Apple commissioned an independent examination of its controls over the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Provisioning System; the SOC 3 report details the independent auditor’s examination of whether those controls operated effectively throughout the period.

The size and weight of the card plus the heatsink rivals the hulking RTX 5090 norm.

ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations

In good old times, StarLink was a board that turned an IBM PC into a multiuser system.

My book club is reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson this month. The core idea fits on a napkin, so before the meeting I de...

Microsoft's Raymond Chen describes the string-matching heuristic behind the OS's system-file recovery.