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My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod
A making-of story for a fan mod that repairs the broken lip-syncing in the classic game Deus Ex, with the technical dete…
My Graduation Cap Runs Rust
A fun hardware hack where a college graduation cap gets a custom display and microcontroller programmed in Rust, with bu…
My Hobby OS That Runs Minecraft
A write-up on getting Minecraft running on Astral, a hobby operating system built from scratch, covering the porting hur…
My Manager Spent $1M on a Backup Server I Never Used
A sysadmin's war story about an absurdly expensive backup server that nobody ever used, with lessons on how big organiza…
My Productivity App Is a Never-Ending .txt File
Jeff Huang shares fourteen years of daily todos kept in a single plain text file, with the simple format, habits and sur…
My Text in Your Handwriting
A researcher explains, with examples, how his system learns a person's handwriting from samples and then writes any new…
My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar
A dad builds his plane-obsessed toddler a live flight radar display, then keeps upgrading it, with adorable release note…
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NASA's Long Dead IMAGE Satellite is Alive!
An amateur satellite tracker tells how he stumbled on a signal from NASA's IMAGE spacecraft, silent since 2005, and conf…
NES Graphics - Part 1
An illustrated explainer of how the Nintendo Entertainment System builds its screens from tiles, palettes, sprites and a…
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
A long illustrated explainer on how electricity, light and radio carry data across independent networks, built up step b…
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
A visual essay showing that the boundary between settings where a neural network trains and settings where it blows up i…
Neural Network Tutorial
A plain-English walk-through of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms with a famous mine-sweeping bots examp…
NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card
A build write-up of a PCB business card that harvests power from a smartphone's NFC field to run a microcontroller and 2…
Nokia N900 Necromancy
A hardware-hacking diary of reviving a dead Nokia N900 Linux phone with a fake battery, a USB-C port and booting from an…
Notes on Porting a UNIX Classic with Cosmopolitan
A write-up on reviving Infocom's UNIX Z-Machine interpreter with Cosmopolitan so one binary runs across operating system…
NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
A classic 1997 write-up by cryptographer Adam Back on how export versions of Lotus Notes carried a built-in key escrow s…
Obituary for Cyc
An in-depth essay on Cyc, the forty-year project to hand-code common sense into a computer, covering its millions of rul…
Official PlayStation 1 Development Kit
A deep dive into the official dev kit hardware Sony gave studios to build PlayStation games, with photos of the boards,…
Okhsv and Okhsl
Bjorn Ottosson explains why classic HSV and HSL color pickers are perceptually broken and introduces two better color sp…
OKSolar
A refreshed take on the Solarized color scheme that rebuilds the palette in the OKLab perceptual colorspace, so lightnes…
Olaf: Acoustic Fingerprinting on ESP32 and in the Browser
A write-up of Olaf, an acoustic fingerprinting system that identifies audio on a tiny ESP32 microcontroller and also run…
Olivetti Programma 101
An in-depth Inexhibit case study of the Olivetti Programma 101, the 1965 Italian desktop machine often called the first…
On Lacework
An artist explains watching an entire machine-learning video dataset of a million clips and turning it into Lacework, a…
On Ray Casting, Ray Tracing, Ray Marching and the Like
An introduction by Adok in the Hugi diskmag that explains ray casting, ray tracing, and ray marching, the techniques beh…
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