This 8-bit computer has two CPUs and one acts as a GPU [video](youtube.com)

29 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 3 comments

The history of MSX computers [video](youtube.com)

48 points by skibz 2 years ago | 14 comments

1980 Terminal with Linux – TeleVideo 950(youtube.com)

57 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 20 comments

Why Did These LEDs Light Up? ESP32-S3 – Which Pins Are Safe to Use? [video](youtube.com)

69 points by iamflimflam1 2 years ago | 23 comments

Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video](youtube.com)

63 points by daneel_w 3 years ago | 7 comments

Commodore 64 Web server [video](youtube.com)

63 points by kentricon 3 years ago | 9 comments

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads(tomshardware.com)

38 points by danny00 18 days ago | 18 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on CRAM, a Linux technique exposing compressed RAM via standard memory semantics instead of a block device, claiming up to 452x faster reads.

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three(righto.com)

354 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 138 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Pentium's ×3 multiplier circuit, used in its base-8 floating-point multiplication, and explaining how it works.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

LED Matrix Earrings(mitxela.com)

551 points by nrabulinski 2 years ago | 78 comments

Mitxela project write-up and video on building stud earrings covered with a matrix of tiny 0201 LEDs.

How gyroscopes got so small [video](youtube.com)

74 points by surprisetalk 11 days ago | 34 comments

A Primal Space YouTube video explaining the history and engineering of how gyroscopes were miniaturized, starting from a 1914 Paris aviation demonstration.