As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling(electronics.stackexchange.com)

757 points by sprawl_ 3 years ago | 217 comments

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question from someone in a war zone asking whether steel-core clothesline wire rope can be used as AC and DC cabling.

Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)(electronics.stackexchange.com)

167 points by dilawar 3 years ago | 616 comments

How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?(electronics.stackexchange.com)

152 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 154 comments

How can I implement a simple asynchronous DRAM controller? (2018)(electronics.stackexchange.com)

22 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 8 comments

Why is int in C in practice at least a 32 bit?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

17 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 39 comments

How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?(langdev.stackexchange.com)

67 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 39 comments

Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery

444 points by scythe 3 years ago | 166 comments

A Tell HN post arguing that Toyota's touted solid-state battery is likely a vanadium–titanium cathode described in a Nature Materials paper by the LIBTEC consortium.

Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?(aviation.stackexchange.com)

365 points by ent101 2 years ago | 236 comments

An Aviation Stack Exchange question asking whether Microsoft Flight Simulator can help someone learn to fly or improve as a pilot.

As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling(electronics.stackexchange.com)

757 points by sprawl_ 3 years ago | 217 comments

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question from someone in a war zone asking whether steel-core clothesline wire rope can be used as AC and DC cabling.

Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)(ux.stackexchange.com)

360 points by wscourge 2 years ago | 268 comments

A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking whether a toggle button should display its current state or the state it will switch to.

Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)(forrestheller.com)

453 points by raimue 2 years ago | 178 comments

A comparison table of the CPUs in modern USB-C wall chargers versus the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, covering clock speed, RAM, storage, and instruction sets.

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.