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H.264 is Magic
A readable walkthrough of how video compression in H.264 works, from frame differences to motion vectors, explaining why…
Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
A daily blog and community covering hardware hacks, electronics projects, and maker culture with detailed DIY engineerin…
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 a Duplo Train With My Voice
A write-up of hacking a child's Duplo train so it speeds up on voice commands, covering the electronics and code behind…
Hacking my smart toothbrush
An engineer reverse engineers a Philips Sonicare toothbrush that reacts to brush heads, working out its radio tags and h…
Hacking the Scammers
A security researcher traces a USPS text-message scam that fooled his wife, then breaks into the scammers' operation and…
Hacking the Timex m851
Tavis Ormandy digs into a Timex data-link watch that receives data from a computer screen's flashing bars, and reverse e…
HAKMEM Programming Hacks
The 1972 MIT AI Memo full of clever bit-twiddling tricks and mathematical hacks by Beeler, Gosper and Schroeppel, retype…
Halo 2 in HD on the Original Xbox
A deep, readable account of patching Halo 2 to run in HD resolutions on the original Xbox, from reverse engineering the…
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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…
Head-Fi
One of the oldest and largest headphone communities online, with forums covering headphones, DACs, amps, and personal au…
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Headphone and Amp Impedance
An engineer's clear explanation of why the same headphones can sound different on different players, and how output impe…
Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing
A data scientist scrapes thousands of heavy metal lyrics to find the most metal and least metal words in English, with c…
Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font
A personal journey building a generative ML model from scratch and teaching it to produce real TrueType fonts, with glyp…
High-Tech Floating Christmas Tree
A build log of a floating Christmas tree lit by more than 2,000 RGB LEDs, covering the electronics and design behind the…
Hijacking e164.arpa
A security hobbyist tells how an expired nameserver let him take over phone-number DNS zones and accidentally capture tr…
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…
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…
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…
Horses
A short, striking essay using the history of horses and engines to argue that technological progress looks steady right…
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…
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