Fuck the cloud (2009)(ascii.textfiles.com)

122 points by downbad_ 6 months ago | 76 comments

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri(narracomm.com)

111 points by thelonelyborg 4 months ago | 105 comments

ASCII by Jason Scott(ascii.textfiles.com)

194 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 22 comments

The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes(wildmanlife.com)

34 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago | 5 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)(devquasar.com)

362 points by networked 1 month ago | 106 comments

A blog post about using the AMD BC-250, a repurposed mining board, as a roughly $60 gaming PC; the page returned a resource limit error.

Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges(peopleofcolorintech.com)

18 points by laurex 2 years ago | 4 comments

Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s(shloked.com)

408 points by shloked 1 year ago | 216 comments

Blog post analyzing how Claude's memory system works, retrieving from raw conversation history on demand, and contrasting it with ChatGPT's memory design.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

399 points by DvdGiessen 1 year ago | 408 comments

Blog post by Matthew Garrett arguing that GPUs, not TPMs, are the real root of hardware DRM; the capture shows a Dreamwidth captcha page instead.

What every developer should know about GPU computing(codeconfessions.substack.com)

422 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 149 comments

A Substack primer by Abhinav Upadhyay explaining GPU architecture and computing concepts for software developers familiar mainly with CPUs.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 8 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions(comsec.ethz.ch)

397 points by alberto-m 1 year ago | 177 comments

ETH Zurich COMSEC research page on Branch Privilege Injection, a class of Intel CPU vulnerabilities exploiting branch predictor race conditions to leak privileged memory.