Hacks and true stories of computing
- “Hacker Folklore” in the Jargon File
- “Software Folklore”—a collection of stories mostly about bugs
- LISA ’96 sysadmin horror story contest—“LISA” stands for “Large Installation System Administration Conference”
- “LPD for fun and MP3 playing” in Unix command queues
- “The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme”
- Apple’s MPW C compiler errors
- Beating Arkanoid faster than ever by brute force and simulation (via “Computer Optimization: Your Computer Is Faster Than You Think”, Gwern Branwen)
- How Coherent 4.2.05 corrupted filesystems
- “MP3 for image compression”
- NetBSD 1.3 dial-up gateway runs from 1998 to 2012
- “Print this file, your printer will jam”
- “Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears’s Instagram”
- “The Ultimate in Garbage Collection”
- “Unix Recovery Legend”
- “WebP: The WebPage compression format”