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How Big is YouTube?
Researchers describe two years of work to estimate how many videos YouTube really holds, using random sampling of video…
How Compaq Cloned IBM
The Internet History Podcast tells the true story behind Halt and Catch Fire: how Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM PC B…
How Complex Systems Fail
Richard Cook's short, much-cited treatise of 18 points on why failures in complex systems from hospitals to power grids…
How DCI Movie Delivery and Encryption Works
A detailed tour of how digital cinema packages are built, encrypted and keyed so movies can be shown in theaters around…
How Distortion Works in Music
An explainer on guitar distortion with animated waveform plots and playable audio clips, showing how clipping a clean si…
How Do Calculators Compute Sine?
A clear walk through how pocket calculators calculate sine without a lookup table, from Taylor series to the CORDIC algo…
How Do I Get into the Game Industry
Garry Newman, creator of Garry's Mod and Rust, answers a parent's question about breaking into game development with fra…
How Do MRI Headphones Work?
A curious patient wonders how audio can reach your ears inside an MRI scanner full of huge magnets, and works out the cl…
How Doctors Die
Ken Murray's widely shared essay on why physicians often choose less aggressive end-of-life care than their patients, an…
How Does an FPGA Work?
A clear illustrated SparkFun tutorial explaining what FPGAs are, how lookup tables and logic blocks become hardware, and…
How Does Shazam Work?
A clear walk-through of audio fingerprinting, from spectrograms to peak hashing, culminating in a small working song-rec…
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How Duke Nukem II's Parallax Scrolling Worked
An illustrated deep dive into how the 1993 DOS game Duke Nukem II faked smooth parallax backgrounds on slow PCs, with an…
How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer
An astronomy explainer on how many minutes of daylight we gain each day through the year, why it peaks at the equinox, a…
How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry
A visual history of Flash games and how their ideas, studios and designers fed into modern mobile, indie and browser gam…
How Game Boy Cartridges Work: More Than You Wanted to Know
A friendly, illustrated deep dive into how Game Boy cartridges talk to the console, covering buses, memory maps, bank co…
How Google Maps Allocates Survival in London
A data-driven look at how Google Maps ratings and visibility shape which of 13,000 London restaurants thrive, with a das…
How Grasshoppers Jump
A clear illustrated explanation of how grasshoppers jump, covering the catapult mechanics of the legs and the neurobiolo…
How HTTPS Works
A comic that follows Certificat as she explains why HTTPS matters and how certificates and encryption work together, in…
How I Also Hacked My Car
A first-person write-up of reverse-engineering a car's infotainment system, with the dead ends and clever tricks needed…
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
A famous reverse-engineering write-up that found and fixed a years-old GTA Online load-time bug.
How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on My Car in 408 Days
A detective story of tracking a mysterious battery drain in a 2013 Mazda3 over more than a year, with clever diagnostics…
How I Got My Laser Eye Injury
A radiation-safety enthusiast tells the real story of how he damaged his eye with a laser, with sober lessons about what…
How I Grew My Substack From 439 to 451 Free Subscribers
A deadpan satire of growth-hacking advice, promising to reveal how to gain twelve whole subscribers in eleven months wit…
How I put my whole life into a single database
Felix Krause tracked hundreds of daily metrics for years, from mood and sleep to weather and location, and shares dozens…
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