50 Years Ago: Celebrating the Influential Intel 8080(intel.com)

14 points by 9front 1 year ago | 1 comments

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor(righto.com)

82 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 13 comments

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

104 points by elpocko 5 months ago | 21 comments

PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you(lcamtuf.substack.com)

276 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 80 comments

Interview: Linus Torvalds (1999)(linuxjournal.com)

3 points by doener 2 years ago | 0 comments

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981(righto.com)

119 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 79 comments

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks(kdpcommunity.com)

586 points by captn3m0 10 months ago | 289 comments

Kindle Direct Publishing community announcement about new eBook download options for readers, including ePub and PDF for DRM-free titles, coming in 2026.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

Making Software(makingsoftware.com)

631 points by calme_toi 1 year ago | 95 comments

Making Software is an illustrated reference manual by Dan Hollick explaining how software and computing concepts work, aimed at people who design and build software.

Design for 3D-Printing(blog.rahix.de)

743 points by q3k 1 year ago | 184 comments

A long blog post collecting tips, tricks, and rules for designing parts that print well on 3D printers.

The art of high performance computing(theartofhpc.com)

566 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 97 comments

Landing page for The Art of HPC, a series of free textbooks on high performance computing by Victor Eijkhout of TACC.

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.