The Tube Computer(thetubecomputer.com)

214 points by elvis70 1 year ago | 59 comments

Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)(srimech.com)

91 points by gene-h 1 year ago | 14 comments

2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server(brutmanlabs.org)

87 points by mbbrutman 3 years ago | 61 comments

KICKI: a DECsystem1060(icm.museum)

24 points by rbanffy 1 month ago | 3 comments

A computer museum blog post about KICKI, a DECsystem-1060 (PDP-10) machine, shown with a photo of its front console panel.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

180 points by archargelod 3 months ago | 47 comments

Diode Matrix(cca.org)

71 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)(eater.net)

379 points by jcartw 1 year ago | 62 comments

Ben Eater's project page documenting how to build a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from simple logic gates, with videos, parts lists, and schematics.

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics(anukari.com)

465 points by humbledrone 1 year ago | 111 comments

Product homepage for Anukari, a software synthesizer and effects processor built on an interactive GPU-driven 3D physics simulation, now in beta.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs(github.com)

351 points by epestr 2 months ago | 95 comments

GitHub repository for Project Rosenbridge by xoreaxeaxeax, documenting and demonstrating a hardware backdoor found in some x86 CPUs.

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display(benholmen.com)

1056 points by benholmen 1 year ago | 135 comments

Blog post by Ben Holmen describing his six-year project building Kilopixel, a 1000-pixel wooden mechanical display that anyone online can draw on.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.