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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com)
13 points by jakey_bakey 17 days ago | past | 4 comments
Wealth Distribution in the United States (righto.com)
84 points by ssklash 30 days ago | past | 120 comments
The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023) (righto.com)
193 points by dangle1 34 days ago | past | 25 comments
Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane (righto.com)
212 points by zdw 41 days ago | past | 65 comments
Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip (righto.com)
141 points by chmaynard 46 days ago | past | 74 comments
The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (righto.com)
484 points by GavinAnderegg 68 days ago | past | 85 comments
The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com)
272 points by magnat 81 days ago | past | 175 comments
[dupe] Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer (righto.com)
1 point by XnoiVeX 3 months ago | past | 1 comment
Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020) (righto.com)
72 points by vinnyvichy 3 months ago | past | 13 comments
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle (righto.com)
340 points by chmaynard 3 months ago | past | 96 comments
"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008) (righto.com)
75 points by behnamoh 3 months ago | past | 36 comments
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 (righto.com)
131 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | past | 92 comments
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor (righto.com)
211 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | past | 98 comments
The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (righto.com)
930 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | past | 508 comments
A vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose (righto.com)
4 points by PaulHoule 5 months ago | past
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose (righto.com)
13 points by elpocko 5 months ago | past | 8 comments
Silicon reverse engineering: The 8085's undocumented flags (2013) (righto.com)
24 points by hggh 5 months ago | past | 9 comments
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine (righto.com)
108 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago | past | 9 comments
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com)
4 points by freedomben 6 months ago | past
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (2019) (righto.com)
36 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | past | 6 comments
A Counterfeit 8086 Processor (2020) (righto.com)
25 points by tentacleuno 7 months ago | past | 5 comments
An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array (righto.com)
150 points by codezero 7 months ago | past | 31 comments
The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside (righto.com)
185 points by matt_d 7 months ago | past | 43 comments
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com)
4 points by redbell 7 months ago | past
MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015) (righto.com)
76 points by ViktorRay 7 months ago | past | 107 comments
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 (righto.com)
30 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past | 2 comments
Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol (2014) (righto.com)
5 points by Tomte 8 months ago | past
The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers (righto.com)
5 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past | 3 comments
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (righto.com)
5 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | past
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (righto.com)
57 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | past | 31 comments

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