Science
The same question, asked the same way, can have two different correct answers — and both sides are right. Three classic paradoxes that reveal why probability is not a property of events, but a property of models.
Hardware
A detailed journey of designing and building a homemade FPGA computer from scratch — from soldering BGA chips at home to booting Linux at 1080p with a custom SoC.
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A humorous autobiographical story about a man who went from sleeping in basements and fighting over cheap beer to becoming a TypeScript developer deploying microservices in Kubernetes.
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A deep dive into the hardware modifications and upgrades possible for the Famicom/NES/Dendy console family, covering LED indicators, controllers, video output mods, audio chips, cartridge mappers, flash cartridges, and converting the console into a personal computer.
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NAT was created as a temporary fix for IPv4 address exhaustion but became permanent infrastructure. This article examines how it breaks modern applications and explores the difficult path toward an IPv6-only future.
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An autobiographical journey of Dmitry Karlovsky through 10 years of developing the $mol web framework — from childhood DOS programming and working at Yandex, through stints at Wrike, Deutsche Bank, and 1C, to building an independent ecosystem of innovative web technologies.
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A senior developer describes how months of heavy reliance on AI coding tools led to cognitive atrophy and an incoherent codebase, and explains the balanced approach he adopted to reclaim his engineering judgment.
Programming
Through clever use of bit manipulation and the Z3 theorem prover, a standard leap year check can be reduced from a branchy sequence of modulo operations to a single branchless expression executing in just three CPU instructions. The approach achieves a 3.8× speedup over the conventional implementation on random input.
Programming
A repair engineer obtains a blocked Yandex Station Mini and, out of curiosity, ends up discovering root access vulnerabilities across nearly the entire Yandex smart device lineup. The journey goes from soldering an SD card to the Wi-Fi module all the way to a formal bug bounty payout.
Programming
A programmer frustrated with existing furniture design software creates his own PHP library that generates OpenSCAD models for chipboard furniture, using an HTML/CSS-like approach to panel placement. The article showcases real projects including a desk-shelf combo, a Frankenstein workstation, and a kitchen table with built-in stools.
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After nearly 40 years at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute in Moscow, one of the last surviving ES 1055M mainframes — a machine with roots in East German engineering that played a role in the birth of Russia's internet — will be transferred to the Polytechnic Museum.
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A first-hand investigation into an industrial-scale Solana token scam operation, tracing how fraudsters create tokens, inject fake liquidity, simulate organic trading activity with hundreds of wallets, and then drain everything — leaving investors with worthless assets.