Mailing list archive
- Forgotten Patent: Elmer Sperry's "Gyroscopic Apparatus for Aeroplanes": The 1914 Autopilot That Flew a Plane Hands-Off While a Man Walked on the Wing — and Now Steers Every Airliner, Drone, and Self-Driving Car Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Tool Nobody Knows: abidiff (libabigail): The ABI-Aware Diff That Tells You Whether Bumping libfoo.so.1 Will Actually Break Everything Linked Against It Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Abandoned Futures: The Mikoyan MiG-105 Spiral (EPOS): The Soviet Air-Launched Spaceplane That Flew in 1976, Predicted the Dream Chaser by 40 Years, and Got Killed Because Brezhnev Wanted a Copy of the American Shuttle Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- What If Engineering: What If We Built a Skyscraper-Sized Thermomagnetic Ferrofluid Loop That Pumped Itself With Nothing But a Permanent Magnet? Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily Debugging Puzzle: Python's <code>dict.setdefault</code> Eager Evaluation Trap: The Cache That Opens a Fresh Connection on Every Hit Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- HN Jobs Teardown: Lark Health: What Their Hiring Reveals Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Stack Overflow Unanswered: How to properly add a new section in internal RAM without breaking this linker script? Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Hacker News Deep Cuts: What WiFi Knows About Your Body Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: Billiard-ball computer Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- RFC Deep Dive: RFC 874: A Critique of X.25 Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- ArXiv Paper Digest: The History Is the Detector: Executing CVE Patch History, End-to-End Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily YT Electronics: How to Make a Hartley Oscillator | Easy RF Oscillator Circuit with Transformer & Transistor Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily YT Engineering: How Engineers Prevent Aircraft Wings From Cracking Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily YT Documentary: On the Making of Coherence #sciencefictionmovies #coherence #filmmaking Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily YT Maker: This Simple $2 Trick Prevents Water Tank Overflows Forever 💧 (DIY Alarm) Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily Engineering Lesson: Push-On External Retaining Rings (Star Washers / Palnuts): The Fastener That Installs with a Hammer and Never Comes Off Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily YT Welding: Building A Custom Fire Station Railing #metalfabrication #welding #custommetal Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily GitHub Zero Stars: Mr-DS-ML-85/lightning-ocr Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily Hardware Architecture: The Store Buffer's Partial Store Forwarding Failure: Why a Byte Write Followed by a Word Read Stalls Tue, 08 Sep 2026
- Daily Digital Circuits: Wormhole Routing and Virtual Channels: How Network-on-Chip Avoids Head-of-Line Blocking by Cutting Packets Into Flits Tue, 08 Sep 2026
