Stories by joebig

A volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (2024)

Palestine Shadow Library

Using a PC sound card to receive VLF radio signals (2015) [video]

How do I justify spending time to create a world in the first place?

Build Yourself a Nipkow Scanning Disk

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Rabbiting on and on about Superstitions (2005)

The Killer Cable Snap – MythBusters (2006) [video]

Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, started in 1989

Ask HN: There is current insistence upon learning what LLM's do under the hood

Falls Survived Without a Parachute

Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1991–1995: A Chronology

Doctrine of Lapse

Modelingmadness.com, The Finest Review Site on the Web: Since 1995

The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca (2015)

DIY Beta+Gamma Scintillation Detector

Meguro Parasite Museum

Deadly forgotten tornado was worst in state history

Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

One Hundred Reasons to Be a Scientist [pdf]

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