Stories by andrewstuart

Quartz Crystals: The Heartbeat of Our Digital World

LifeOS – you’re bad at running your life, hand it over to AI.

Worlds Smallest microcontroller, the Cortex M0 MCU MSPM0C1104

Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU

A TV Transmitter from an STM32

The night my marriage fell apart

GIER: A Danish computer from 1961 with a role in the modern astronomy

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

You shouldn’t Use SQLite

The biggest tell that something was written by AI

GitHub and open-source is a boon for the underprivileged

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

Nvidia raises video encoder limit to 12 on consumer GPUs

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

Ask HN: How do you assess and recruit developers in 2026?

Tell HN: Search Marketplace for "Sony megastorage" get accused of child porno

Ask HN: How could video podcasts challenge YouTube?

Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

Poll: Are you for AI or against AI?

Ask HN: Cheap, powerful AI programming now, what happens when we have no choice?

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