The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)(righto.com)

188 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 25 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history(righto.com)

83 points by zdw 7 months ago | 24 comments

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962(righto.com)

64 points by rsecora 5 months ago | 3 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980(righto.com)

104 points by elpocko 5 months ago | 21 comments

Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer(righto.com)

72 points by picture 3 years ago | 27 comments

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)(righto.com)

154 points by zdw 1 year ago | 31 comments

Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

700 points by razin 4 months ago | 118 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(danielmangum.com)

47 points by hasheddan 4 days ago | 28 comments

Blog post explaining why microcontroller-based IoT devices are likely unaffected by the eMudhra intermediate CA private key compromise, due to minimal pinned root CA bundles.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc(dreamstation.systems)

389 points by robinpie 1 month ago | 109 comments

Personal blog post describing persistent attack traffic in nginx logs from IPs with Host/Referer headers pointing to pool-ntp.tesla.com.