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How Compaq Cloned IBM
The Internet History Podcast tells the true story behind Halt and Catch Fire: how Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM PC B…
How DCI Movie Delivery and Encryption Works
A detailed tour of how digital cinema packages are built, encrypted and keyed so movies can be shown in theaters around…
How Did I Get Here?
A live traceroute that shows the actual network path from your device to the server, paired with a friendly explanation…
How did you find me?
A thoughtful little website that asks visitors how they really found it, musing on trackers, referrers and the long huma…
How DNS Works
A charming comic strip that explains step by step what happens when you type a website address and press enter.
How Does an FPGA Work?
A clear illustrated SparkFun tutorial explaining what FPGAs are, how lookup tables and logic blocks become hardware, and…
How Does Gradient Descent Work?
An illustrated, animated companion to an ICLR paper that shows what gradient descent actually does on a bumpy loss lands…
How Does Shazam Work?
A clear walk-through of audio fingerprinting, from spectrograms to peak hashing, culminating in a small working song-rec…
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How Duke Nukem II's Parallax Scrolling Worked
An illustrated deep dive into how the 1993 DOS game Duke Nukem II faked smooth parallax backgrounds on slow PCs, with an…
How Game Boy Cartridges Work: More Than You Wanted to Know
A friendly, illustrated deep dive into how Game Boy cartridges talk to the console, covering buses, memory maps, bank co…
How Generative Music Works
An interactive presentation by Tero Parviainen exploring how generative music works, with dozens of playable examples fr…
How Google Maps Allocates Survival in London
A data-driven look at how Google Maps ratings and visibility shape which of 13,000 London restaurants thrive, with a das…
How HTTPS Works
A comic that follows Certificat as she explains why HTTPS matters and how certificates and encryption work together, in…
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 cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
A famous reverse-engineering write-up that found and fixed a years-old GTA Online load-time bug.
How I Experience Web Today
A satirical one-page parody of modern browsing, piling on pop-ups, cookie banners, and newsletter prompts until the page…
How I put my whole life into a single database
Felix Krause tracked hundreds of daily metrics for years, from mood and sleep to weather and location, and shares dozens…
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 I Take Math Lecture Notes with LaTeX and Vim
A famous write-up on typing live mathematics lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim snippets, with animated demos of how fast…
How Is Felix Today?
A real-time dashboard of one man's entire life in a single database, showing his location, mood, meals, sleep, workouts…
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 LLMs Work
An interactive visual deep dive into how large language models work, built around Andrej Karpathy's lecture and explaine…
How Long Is My Data?
A playful calculator that measures your data the way librarians would: by how many metres of shelving it takes if you st…
How Normal Am I?
A webcam experience where face detection algorithms estimate how normal you are, showing what such software guesses abou…
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