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Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
A profile of painter Hiroshi Nagai, whose bright pool-and-palm-tree Americana artwork became the visual backdrop of Japa…
His Software Sang the Words of God
A long read on Thomas Buchler, creator of the beloved Torah chanting program TropeTrainer, and the effort to revive his…
History of Infographics
RJ Andrews traces the great data visualizers from Playfair to Nightingale in a poster and essay drawn in their own style…
History of Microchess
Peter Jennings tells how Microchess for the KIM-1 became the first game program sold for home computers, from six months…
History of Writing
An opinionated essay tracing the origins of writing, from the emergence of language and abstract thought to early script…
History of Yesterday
A publication of short, story-driven articles on overlooked historical events, figures, and everyday life from across th…
Hobart
An irreverent online literary magazine mixing short fiction, essays, and pop-culture obsessed writing, known for its pla…
Hokusai: Ukiyo-e Prints of Ghosts
A look at Hokusai's eerie woodblock prints of Japanese ghosts and spirits, with the images and the folk tales behind eac…
Home Metal Shop Club
A club dedicated to home machinists, sharing project write-ups and technical papers on building tools in a home metal sh…
Home Sweet Homepage
An illustrated comic zine by sailorhg celebrating the personal homepage, walking through why handmade websites matter an…
Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18
A plain-language walk through the math that lets a server process your encrypted photos without ever seeing them, writte…
Hopkin Explained
The inside story of the Hopkin Green Frog, the lost-toy-frog flyers that appeared around Seattle in 2003 and became an e…
Horses
A short, striking essay using the history of horses and engines to argue that technological progress looks steady right…
Hortus Eystettensis
The Garden History Blog tells how the Hortus Eystettensis, a giant 1613 engraved catalogue of a Bavarian bishop's garden…
Host a Planet-Scale Geocoder for $10/Month
A write-up on building a new geocoder, a search engine for places and addresses, cheap enough to host at planet scale fo…
Hosting a Website on a Disposable Vape
A hardware tinkerer discovers a capable ARM chip inside a discarded disposable vape and turns it into a tiny working web…
How a 64k Intro Is Made
A demoscene veteran explains how a real-time 64-kilobyte intro like Guberniya is built, from procedural graphics and mus…
How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians
A lively profile of astronomer Cliff Stoll, who caught a KGB-linked hacker in the 1980s and now spends his days making g…
How a Croatian Freediver Held His Breath for 29 Minutes
The story behind the record for longest underwater breath-hold using pure oxygen, a feat viewed as much a conjuring tric…
How a Kalman Filter Works, in Pictures
A friendly illustrated walk-through of the Kalman filter, using colorful Gaussian blobs to show how a robot fuses noisy…
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How a Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
A history story on how Boris Yeltsin's 1989 visit to a Houston supermarket and its abundant shelves shook his view of th…
How AI Works, Plain English
A no-math, plain-English explanation of how modern AI models like DALL-E actually work, built up from simple ideas with…
How AWS S3 Serves 1 PB per Second on Slow HDDs
An accessible tour of how Amazon S3 spreads data across tens of millions of hard drives to reach enormous throughput, us…
How Bayesian Inference Works
A friendly illustrated explainer of Bayesian inference that walks through priors, likelihoods and posteriors with simple…
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