Mailing list archive
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Daily Hardware Architecture: CLFLUSH vs CLFLUSHOPT vs CLWB: Three Ways to Ask the CPU to Flush a Cache Line
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
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Daily Digital Circuits: Viterbi Decoders: How Hardware Finds the Most Likely Path Through a Trellis in Real Time
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
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Daily Electrical Circuits: Snubberless TRIAC Drive: Controlling Inductive AC Loads Without an RC Network
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
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Daily Software Engineering: The Segmented LRU with Ghost Entries and Frequency-Aware Demotion: When Falling Out of the Hot Segment Should Depend on How Loved You Were
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
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Daily Low-Level Programming: The MADV_DONTNEED vs MADV_FREE Distinction: Why Your Freed Memory's RSS Only Sometimes Drops
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
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Daily Digest — 2026-07-22
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Hardware Architecture: Software Prefetch Instructions (PREFETCHT0/T1/T2/NTA): How Programmers Hint the CPU About the Future
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Electrical Circuits: Boucherot Cell vs Thiele Network: Stabilizing Amplifiers Driving Loudspeaker Loads
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Software Engineering: The Segmented LRU with Ghost Entries and Frequency-Weighted Promotion: When Access Count Should Decide Where You Live
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily YT Engineering: ASP Powder Metallurgy Steel Manufacturing Process | From Metal Powder to Super Hard Steel
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Digital Circuits: Zero-Cycle Move Elimination: How Hardware Executes MOV Instructions Without Using the ALU
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Automotive Engines: Cylinder Head Porting: Port Wall Anti-Reversion Steps and Sharp-Edge Barriers
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily Low-Level Programming: The SO_PEEK_OFF Socket Option: Reading From a TCP Stream Without Consuming It, at an Offset
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily YT Documentary: J.balvin - History of Reggaeton Documentary (ft J.balvinLarico)
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Daily YT Maker: DIY C-CLAMP French Cleat Holder | Free CNC Files & Workshop Storage
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Forgotten Books: The 1897 River Turbine That Predicted Today's Hydrokinetic Boom
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Forgotten Patent: Willard Boyle & George Smith's "Charge Coupled Semiconductor Devices": The 1969 Patent Sketched in an Hour on a Bell Labs Blackboard — and Now the Eye of Every Digital Camera and Space Telescope
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Tool Nobody Knows: tsort: The POSIX Topological Sort That's Been Sitting in /usr/bin Since 1979
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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Abandoned Futures: The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne: The 245-MPH Compound Attack Helicopter the Army Flew in 1967 and Cancelled in 1972, Sending Rotorcraft Backward for Half a Century
Wed, 22 Jul 2026
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What If Engineering: What If We Built a Skyscraper-Sized Osmotic Pressure Tower to Lift Seawater 240 Meters Without a Pump?
Wed, 22 Jul 2026