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Radium Jaw and the Girls Who Licked Radioactive Paint
The grim story of the Radium Girls, factory workers who painted glowing watch dials and licked their brushes, and the ra…
Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS
A game graphics programmer explains how he hacked Windows Notepad into a display surface and ran a real-time ray tracer…
Reasons I Didn't Become an EMT, Ranked
A funny, candid list of 21 reasons the author put off getting an EMT license, sorted from the sensible to the ridiculous…
Rebellious Birds Make Nests out of Anti-Bird Pins
Biologists at Naturalis report magpies and crows building nests from the metal anti-nesting spikes meant to deter them,…
Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
A hunt through web archives to rebuild the lists Anthony Bourdain posted on the defunct Li.st app, following up an earli…
Regex Chess
Nicholas Carlini builds a 2-ply minimax chess engine entirely from 84,688 regular expressions and lets you play it in th…
Rejected Icelandic Female Names
A list of girls' names rejected by Iceland's official naming committee, a curious look at how a country decides which na…
Remembering Fluffy
A long, tender photo memoir of Fluffy, a Manx cat found as a kitten, recalling his habits, quirks and adventures in lovi…
Replacing My Best Friends With an LLM
A funny and surprisingly candid experiment fine-tuning a language model on years of group chat history, and the weirdly…
Retrieving 1TB from a Faulty Drive with Woodworking Tools
A hands-on tale of rescuing a terabyte from a failing NVMe drive using woodworking tools, patience, and a lot of ingenui…
Reversing UK Mobile Rail Tickets
A detective story about decoding the barcodes on British mobile train tickets, tracing a design lineage back to paper AP…
Reversing YouTube's Most Replayed Graph
An interactive write-up that reverse engineers the engineering behind YouTube's Most Replayed graph, showing how the cur…
RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab Header
A deadpan spoof of an internet standard that defines an HTTP header letting users politely ask websites not to stab them…
Roadside Attraction
An essay that starts with giant roadside oddities, from the Biggest Pistachio to restaurants shaped like hats, and wande…
Rocky Horror: A Virgin's Guide
A first-timer's guide to the audience participation rituals of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, from callback lines and pr…
Rookie: Teen Idols
A page from the archive of Rookie, the beloved teen magazine: collaged scrapbook pages torn from 2000s fangirls' obsessi…
Rotary Keyboard
A tinkerer bodges a vintage rotary telephone dial into a mechanical keyboard so numbers must be dialed in, with photos a…
Running a Tesla Model 3 Computer on My Desk
A security researcher buys wrecked-car parts and wires a Tesla Model 3's computer to his desk, walking through the pinou…
SCREAM CIPHER
A playful post showing how the many Unicode variants of the letter A can encode a message as a cipher that looks like a…
Scrollbars are becoming a problem
A witty and thoughtful rant on how scrollbars have grown thinner, hidden, and harder to use, and why this small interfac…
Secret Colours of the Commodore 64
A nostalgic deep dive by a teenager-turned-developer who discovered hidden extra colours in the C64 display, with images…
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Ron Rosenbaum's 1971 Esquire story on the phone phreaks who hacked the telephone network with blue boxes and whistles, t…
Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars
Tim Dierks recounts why Netscape's SSL became TLS in the late 90s, a short inside story of Microsoft and Netscape standa…
Sega AI Computer
A deep dive into Sega's obscure Japanese educational AI Computer, with specs, the touch-pad keyboard, software and scans…
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