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Synthmania: Famous Sounds
A deep reference to the classic synthesizer sounds everyone has heard, from Jump brass to the Lately Bass, explaining wh…
Synthtopia
A long-running news blog covering synthesizers and electronic music gear, from vintage rarities to new releases and soun…
Taking My Diabetes Treatment Into My Own Hands
A Type 1 diabetic recounts building his own closed-loop insulin system, with a gripping first-person story about bodies,…
Talkie: A Vintage Language Model From 1930
Introduces a language model trained only on text from before 1931, so it answers as if the modern world did not exist. R…
Tamagotchi Torture Chamber
A Cornell student engineering project that built a rig to automatically play, poke and torment a real Tamagotchi, docume…
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Telharmonium
An illustrated history of Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium, the 1897 electric organ weighing about 200 tons that piped mus…
Tempest
The story of TEMPEST, the NSA's secret study of compromising electronic emissions, starting with a 1943 engineer who spo…
Ten Seconds to Ponder if a Thread Is Worth It
A short essay and userstyle idea that makes you wait ten seconds before opening a Hacker News thread, a small experiment…
Ten Years in Silicon Alley
Literary Kicks founder Levi Asher recounts his decade as a developer and web pioneer in New York's Silicon Alley, from t…
Terminal Phase 1.0
A release announcement for Terminal Phase, a space shooter that runs in the terminal, with the story of how it was built…
Terraform
A speculative fiction outlet publishing short, sharp near-future stories that read like dispatches from tomorrow, often…
Testing the F-35C Tailhook
A detailed thread-turned-article on how the F-35C carrier jet's arresting hook was tested and redesigned after early fai…
Tetris Story by Vadim Gerasimov
A first-hand account of how Tetris was created in the Soviet Union in 1984-86, written by one of its original programmer…
The $5000 Compression Challenge
The full email record of a famous bet: a challenger offered 5000 dollars to anyone who could compress a random file, and…
The 12-bit Rainbow Palette
A hand-tuned palette of twelve colours chosen around how humans perceive luminance, chroma and hue, with every swatch ex…
The AARD Code and DR DOS
A forensic deep dive into the mysterious encrypted AARD code in Windows 3.1 betas that quietly checked for DR DOS, with…
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The AI Engine of Street Fighter II
A deep dive into the original Street Fighter II code revealing how the computer-controlled fighters choose their moves,…
The Amp Garage
A forum community for tube guitar amplifier builders and technicians trading circuit knowledge and modification advice.
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
Did Apple deliberately hobble the IIGS to protect the Macintosh? A retro-computing deep dive tests the legend against ha…
The Art of LaTeX
An essay on common LaTeX mistakes and practical advice for typesetting beautiful, readable proofs, written for students…
The Art of PNG Glitch
A glitch artist's illustrated guide to how PNG files work inside and how corrupting their filters and compression produc…
The Blue Badge, Reimagined
A designer's weekend project redesigning the Microsoft employee badge for a modern, neat look, with the mockups and reas…
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The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
A history of the Victorian undersea telegraph cables that tied the British Empire together, and why their routing was de…
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The Bulgarian Laws of Robotics
An essay on how Bulgarian science fiction writers extended Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics with a fourth and fifth law,…
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