Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer (2023)(righto.com)

15 points by trymas 1 year ago | 2 comments

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512(lemire.me)

110 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 87 comments

A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory(tomverbeure.github.io)

96 points by zdw 1 year ago | 59 comments

Transcoding Unicode strings at crazy speeds with AVX-512(lemire.me)

21 points by usdogu 3 years ago | 4 comments

The Caterpillar Spaceship (2005)(gabrielnivasch.org)

11 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 0 comments

Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)

2422 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 280 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airplanes fly by examining the forces generated by airflow around wings and airfoils.