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gcemetery.co Website

The Google Cemetery

A graveyard of discontinued Google products, listing each dead project and the reasons it was shut down, from messaging…

dugas.ch Article

The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin

A hand-drawn, step-by-step diagram tour of how GPT-3 turns words into predictions, covering embeddings, attention and la…

pacifict.com Article

The Graphing Calculator Story

Ron Avitzur tells how, after his project was cancelled, he and a friend kept sneaking into Apple without jobs or badges…

thad.frogley.info Article

The greatest program ever written

A game programmer's short ode to David Horne's 1K ZX Chess, a playable chess program squeezed into the tiny memory of a…

jsomers.net Website

The Hacker Classics

A reader-curated list of classic Hacker News stories, collecting the most memorable essays and discussions from the site…

s-macke.github.io Article

The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator

A visual walkthrough of every Microsoft Flight Simulator release since 1982, with screenshots showing how graphics and f…

historyofphonephreaking.org Website

The History of Phone Phreaking - Documents

Phil Lapsley's archive of scanned memos, FBI files, Bell System papers and newsletters documenting the phone phreaks who…

doc.cat-v.org Article

The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike

Rob Pike's first-hand email recounting how he and Ken Thompson designed UTF-8 on a diner placemat in one evening in 1992…

vzqk50.com Website

The Hive

The home site of Apis Necros, mixing writing on technology and mental health with small JavaScript prototypes and experi…

hobby-machinist.com Website

The Hobby-Machinist

A forum built for hobbyist machinists working with lathes and mills at home, covering everything from tooling to finishe…

thehomelab.wiki Website

The Homelab Wiki

A community-maintained wiki collecting guides, hardware recommendations, and troubleshooting notes for people building h…

tls13.xargs.org Interactive

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

Click through a real TLS 1.3 connection byte by byte: every handshake message, key calculation and encrypted record is a…

tls13.ulfheim.net Interactive

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

An interactive walkthrough of a single encrypted web connection where you click through every byte of the TLS 1.3 handsh…

tls.ulfheim.net Interactive

The Illustrated TLS Connection

A byte-by-byte illustrated walkthrough of a real TLS handshake, with color-coded fields explaining what every part of th…

imps4ever.info Website

The Imp Site

An enthusiast archive on the Hillman Imp and its badge-engineered cousins, with model history, specials, competition car…

inspiring.online Website

The Indie Web

A hand-curated feed of indie web creations: chess variants, CSS games, 3D typography toys and other small projects, each…

infiniteconversation.com Audio

The Infinite Conversation

An AI-generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Zizek, streaming a synthetic dialogue that wan…

musicmachinery.substack.com Article

The Infinite Jukebox, 10 Years Later

Paul Lamere looks back on building the Infinite Jukebox, the Music Hack Day toy that loops a favorite song forever by ju…

mprove.de Article

The Interface of Kai Krause's Software

A design-history essay on the famously strange, tactile interfaces of Kai Krause's Kai's Power Tools and Bryce, and why…

icm.museum Website

The Interim Computer Museum

A volunteer museum site preserving vintage computers, with collections, recollections and event pages for retro-computin…

julian.bearblog.dev Article

The Internet from Rocks

A long, friendly explainer that builds the whole stack from sand and transistors up through logic gates, CPUs, operating…

internet-map.net Interactive

The Internet Map

An interactive galaxy-like map that visualizes hundreds of thousands of websites as stars, sized by traffic and linked b…

manifold.umn.edu Article

The Isolator

Hugo Gernsback's 1925 piece on The Isolator, an oxygen-fed helmet meant to block all noise and distraction, free to read…

catb.org Website

The Jargon File

The legendary hacker culture dictionary maintained by Eric S. Raymond, documenting decades of programmer slang, folklore…

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