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31.

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors

10 years ago

300 points

32.

Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer

10 years ago

300 points

33.

Cells are fast and crowded places (2011)

6 years ago

294 points

34.

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots

10 years ago

292 points

35.

The origin of the cargo cult metaphor

a year ago

291 points

36.

Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor

3 years ago

280 points

37.

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

2 years ago

272 points

38.

The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered

5 years ago

271 points

39.

Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

2 years ago

266 points

40.

Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA

8 years ago

261 points

41.

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old

9 years ago

256 points

42.

Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)

6 years ago

251 points

43.

Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second

9 years ago

251 points

44.

Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside

10 years ago

250 points

45.

How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works

4 years ago

248 points

46.

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

3 years ago

242 points

47.

Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system

8 years ago

240 points

48.

Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

13 years ago

238 points

49.

Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes

9 years ago

238 points

50.

Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator

12 years ago

236 points

51.

Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years

7 years ago

234 points

52.

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)

3 years ago

231 points

53.

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register

6 years ago

229 points

54.

Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol

12 years ago

229 points

55.

Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

8 years ago

226 points

56.

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

7 months ago

222 points

57.

Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer

7 years ago

217 points

58.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor

6 years ago

217 points

59.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor (2020)

5 years ago

217 points

60.

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane

2 years ago

212 points