Janet Jackson's cursed bassline was the scourge of notebook makers for years

by stalfosknighton 4/30/2025, 6:14 PMwith 3 comments

by kristianpon 4/30/2025, 8:30 PM

The article links Raymond Chen from 2022: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...

And David Plummer also from 2022 https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSvu9IDUjZw

by gnabgibon 4/30/2025, 6:20 PM

Past discussions:

2024 (205 points, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534483

2022 (123 points, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558149

by dublinon 4/30/2025, 9:47 PM

The fixes for such things are often quite amusing. One of these days, i'll get around to telling the story of how a major computer manufacturer was forced to make the BIOS smarter than the OS...