Less Popular Than Coal(argmin.net)
31 points by _delirium | 23 comments
Ben Recht's arg min Substack post reacting to election results where voters rejected AI datacenter measures, arguing the tech industry needs a reboot.
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In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible(quantamagazine.org)
130 points by unprovable | 80 comments
Quanta Magazine explainer on Hilbert space, the abstract mathematical realm used to describe quantum phenomena.
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A nicer voltmeter clock(lcamtuf.substack.com)
345 points by surprisetalk | 45 comments
lcamtuf's Substack post describing building an improved voltmeter clock, an update to a 2019 project, with emphasis on its wooden enclosure.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock(github.com)
583 points by tokyobreakfast | 186 comments
GitHub repository with an Arduino sketch and schematic for driving a cheap analog quartz clock with an ESP8266 to show NTP-synced local time.
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler(blog.videah.net)
362 points by ericvolp12 | 194 comments
A personal blog post describing reverse-engineering the wireless thermostat signals of a landlord-controlled boiler using an SDR and laptop.
Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
700 points by razin | 118 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)
392 points by nee1r | 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.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)(eater.net)
379 points by jcartw | 62 comments
Ben Eater's project page documenting how to build a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from simple logic gates, with videos, parts lists, and schematics.