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Get a Cable Modem... Go to Jail
A 1999 first-person tale of a bizarre run-in with a cable company, told in chapters, that captures the absurdity of earl…
Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House
A humorous account of reverse engineering Waffle House's website to build a live unofficial version of the Waffle House…
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
A maker project where a Raspberry Pi prints a morning news digest on a clattering dot matrix printer instead of a phone,…
Getting the World Record in HATETRIS
The story of an eleven-month effort to beat HATETRIS, the Tetris variant that picks the worst possible piece, told with…
Ghost Sites of the Web: Kozmo.com
Steve Baldwin's long-running Ghost Sites column digs into a trove of leftover Kozmo.com memorabilia, a surreal echo of t…
Ghosts in the ROM
Hackers at NYC Resistor dig through a 1987 Mac SE ROM dump and uncover a hidden photo of the original Macintosh team, ex…
Glitter text
A playful write-up on recreating old-school sparkly glitter text with layered SVG reflections, plus a link to a free mak…
Google Has Most of My Email
Benjamin Mako Hill explains why he runs his own mail server yet Google still holds most of his email, a classic essay on…
Google's AI Thinks I Left a Gatorade Bottle on the Moon
A short, funny tale of feeding a blog post to an AI podcast generator and hearing two synthetic hosts confidently invent…
GUI Gallery
An exhaustive illustrated gallery documenting the look and evolution of graphical user interfaces from the 1970s to the…
Hacker News Item Lifetime
An analysis of how long items survive on the Hacker News New page, working through the data to see how quickly stories s…
Hacking the Scammers
A security researcher traces a USPS text-message scam that fooled his wife, then breaks into the scammers' operation and…
HAKMEM Programming Hacks
The 1972 MIT AI Memo full of clever bit-twiddling tricks and mathematical hacks by Beeler, Gosper and Schroeppel, retype…
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Hamster Powered Walker
Toy maker I-Wei Huang hacks a mini Strandbeest kit into a walking machine driven by a hamster in a wheel, with photos an…
Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns With Your Street
A blog post on building a tool that predicts the days when the setting sun lines up with any street, like Manhattanhenge…
Hijacking e164.arpa
A security hobbyist tells how an expired nameserver let him take over phone-number DNS zones and accidentally capture tr…
Hilary: the most poisoned baby name
A statistician digs into Social Security baby name data to show how the name Hilary crashed in popularity after 1992 fas…
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 Microchess
Peter Jennings tells how Microchess for the KIM-1 became the first game program sold for home computers, from six months…
Hobart
An irreverent online literary magazine mixing short fiction, essays, and pop-culture obsessed writing, known for its pla…
Home Sweet Homepage
An illustrated comic zine by sailorhg celebrating the personal homepage, walking through why handmade websites matter an…
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…
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…
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