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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 Big is YouTube?
Researchers describe two years of work to estimate how many videos YouTube really holds, using random sampling of video…
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 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 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 Reverse Engineered Google Docs
James Somers explains how he dug into Google Docs revision data to replay any document keystroke by keystroke, and shows…
How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET
A short, funny piece of early internet lore about how a science fiction author managed to get himself banned from the AR…
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks looks at a Reddit post of an ancient jaw fossil spotted in travertine tile and explains h…
How My Images Are Dithered
A personal-site walkthrough of how the author turns photos into crunchy dithered images for the web, with before-and-aft…
How People Actually Lie With Charts
A research write-up showing that most misleading charts shared online are not doctored axes but correct graphs used to s…
How to Apply Letraset Dry Transfers
SPLAT, a society devoted to vintage Letraset Action Transfers, explains how rub-down lettering and transfers were applie…
How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop
A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
Chip Morningstar's classic, very funny essay about a software engineer wandering into an academic conference on postmode…
How To Plant A Meme
Artist Joshua Citarella describes a secret 18-month project to infiltrate radical online Gen Z communities and nudge the…
How to Run a Small Social Network Site for Your Friends
Darius Kazemi's widely shared guide to running a small social network for friends, focused on community-building princip…
How to Survive Boiling Water
The story of MIT's most notorious milk carton, bought in 1994 and rediscovered in a dorm fridge, and the probiotic parad…
How to Use the Internet Again
A five-unit crash course in wandering, breaking and building online, with practical exercises for escaping the algorithm…
HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up
A short article proposing a joke HTTP 419 response that rickrolls unwanted bots, mixing web server humor with a very old…
Human Programming Interface
An essay on treating your own digital data, from messages to workouts, as something you can query programmatically, with…
Humorous RFCs
A curated list of the funniest internet standards documents, from ARPAWOCKY to joke protocols, proving specs do not have…
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Hyperbole and a Half: Menace
Allie Brosh's illustrated story about the intoxicating power of being a tiny child with opinions, told in her famous cru…
I Drove 300 Miles, Then Asked Police for the Footage
A reporter drives 300 miles of rural Virginia, then files public records requests for police camera footage of his own c…
I Gave the Internet My Printer
A write-up of the experiment where 190 strangers from 42 countries printed to the author's home printer in India over th…
I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00
A programmer recounts finding errors in Donald Knuth's books and receiving one of his legendary reward checks, paid in h…
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