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31.

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (righto.com)

300 points

10 years ago

32.

Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer (righto.com)

300 points

10 years ago

33.

Cells are fast and crowded places (2011) (righto.com)

294 points

6 years ago

34.

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots (righto.com)

292 points

10 years ago

35.

The origin of the cargo cult metaphor (righto.com)

291 points

a year ago

36.

Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor (righto.com)

280 points

3 years ago

37.

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com)

272 points

2 years ago

38.

The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (righto.com)

271 points

5 years ago

39.

Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor (righto.com)

266 points

2 years ago

40.

Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA (righto.com)

261 points

8 years ago

41.

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old (righto.com)

256 points

9 years ago

42.

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

251 points

6 years ago

43.

Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second (righto.com)

251 points

9 years ago

44.

Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside (righto.com)

250 points

10 years ago

45.

How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works (righto.com)

248 points

4 years ago

46.

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)

242 points

3 years ago

47.

Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system (righto.com)

240 points

8 years ago

48.

Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing (righto.com)

238 points

13 years ago

49.

Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes (righto.com)

238 points

9 years ago

50.

Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator (righto.com)

236 points

12 years ago

51.

Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years (righto.com)

234 points

7 years ago

52.

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

231 points

3 years ago

53.

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register (righto.com)

229 points

6 years ago

54.

Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol (righto.com)

229 points

12 years ago

55.

Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point (righto.com)

226 points

8 years ago

56.

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic (righto.com)

222 points

7 months ago

57.

Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer (righto.com)

217 points

7 years ago

58.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor (righto.com)

217 points

6 years ago

59.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor (2020) (righto.com)

217 points

5 years ago

60.

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane (righto.com)

212 points

2 years ago