Restoration of an IBM 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop(blog.jgc.org)

100 points by jtwaleson 2 years ago | 35 comments

Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit(blog.jgc.org)

78 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 16 comments

My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage(blog.jgc.org)

46 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 91 comments

My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's(blog.jgc.org)

109 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 24 comments

Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware(blog.jgc.org)

10 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 1 comments

Acorn Computer Systems catalogue circa 1983(blog.jgc.org)

54 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 3 comments

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip(adepts.of0x.cc)

75 points by michidk 10 days ago | 5 comments

A blog post on reverse engineering the firmware of a Eufy HomeBase 2 device, covering WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns, and recovering data from a damaged flash chip.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.