Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer(downtowndougbrown.com)

106 points by zdw 3 years ago | 14 comments

How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s(downtowndougbrown.com)

178 points by SerCe 2 years ago | 76 comments

Why is my CPU usage always 100%?(downtowndougbrown.com)

505 points by pncnmnp 1 year ago | 137 comments

Part 9 of a blog series on upgrading the Chumby 8's Linux kernel from 2.6.28 to 6.x, investigating why top always reports 100% CPU usage.

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC(downtowndougbrown.com)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 17 comments

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 11: SD/CF card reader(downtowndougbrown.com)

32 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 1 comments

An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot(downtowndougbrown.com)

284 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 63 comments

The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug(github.com)

391 points by signa11 1 year ago | 166 comments

GitHub repository with a deep dive into ACPI.sys DPC latency problems caused by firmware AML bugs on Asus ROG laptops, including decompilation and ETW traces.

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates(mullvad.net)

344 points by dulvui 2 years ago | 172 comments

Mullvad blog post reporting that macOS can leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel after system updates because the firewall ignores rules until a reboot.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)(jordemort.dev)

325 points by goodburb 1 year ago | 130 comments

A blog post by Jordan Webb investigating, detective-style, why Android cannot use USB CDC Ethernet adapters despite supporting USB ethernet.

Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node(lowendbox.com)

735 points by h0ek 3 years ago | 489 comments

LowEndBox blog post recounting the case of William Weber, convicted of child pornography charges in Austria after running a Tor exit node.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.