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85 points by surprisetalk | 20 comments
Blog post by lcamtuf announcing his electronics book The Secret Life of Circuits is now available on Amazon and other retailers, with a plea for reader reviews.
15 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
An essay on lcamtuf's Substack blog examining philosophy, materialism, and arguments about the mind and perception.
10 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A satirical blog post by lcamtuf framing Hacker News commenting habits as an AI agent SKILL.md, using dice rolls to pick stereotypical comment patterns.
101 points by Luc | 5 comments
A Substack essay by lcamtuf arguing that modern computers owe more to the invention of electronically controlled working memory than to Charles Babbage.
287 points by surprisetalk | 72 comments
42 points by surprisetalk | 10 comments
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