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Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html

54•jmillikin•3h ago

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ajxs•1h ago

Author here, thank you for posting this! If anyone has any questions about the article, I'd be happy to answer them!

mrunkel•51m ago

I just wanted to say thank you. This is a great read.

mutagen•1h ago

Seems like a good place to mention The Usual Suspects, a group that has built emulation of the Motorola DSP5630 and associated hardware to allow playable virtual instruments.

https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/14179366

154•hhutw•2h ago•11 comments

Space Elevator

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

46•kaonwarb•1h ago•2 comments

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html

56•jmillikin•3h ago•3 comments

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake

321•jbm•9h ago•158 comments

Forth: The programming language that writes itself

https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html

116•suioir•5h ago•35 comments

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html

482•peterkshultz•13h ago•153 comments

Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument

https://medium.com/@gabiteodoru/dont-force-your-llm-to-write-terse-code-an-argument-from-informat...

23•gabiteodoru•6d ago•8 comments

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour

138•birdculture•9h ago•48 comments

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

47•ibobev•6h ago•13 comments

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

92•TheWiggles•7h ago•31 comments

Airliner hit by possible space debris

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/

275•d_silin•12h ago•144 comments

Subway station study reveals fungal communities

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-subway-station-reveals-fungal-communities.html

6•PaulHoule•1w ago•0 comments

From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o

33•RickJWagner•6h ago•2 comments

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/

118•indigodaddy•10h ago•50 comments

Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia

https://nswskc.wordpress.com/2002/10/24/incredible-journey-50/

28•dividendpayee•1w ago•4 comments

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/

141•todsacerdoti•12h ago•55 comments

A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-tiny-typo-may-explain-a-centuries-old-mystery-about-c...

9•keepamovin•5d ago•2 comments

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-gobi-wall-mongolia-2674588

41•derbOac•1w ago•25 comments

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc

125•bauta-steen•14h ago•36 comments

Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)

https://www.xda-developers.com/absolutely-unhinged-gpu-box-art-from-the-early-2000s/

144•m-hodges•4h ago•46 comments

LoC Is a Dumb Metric for Functions

https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/loc-is-a-dumb-metric-for-functions/

26•Axol•6h ago•29 comments

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish

116•zynovex•1w ago•14 comments

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/

155•furkansahin•5d ago•182 comments

Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-produced-first-blackwell-wafer-us-soil/

78•kristianp•4h ago•26 comments

Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-415

88•adtac•21h ago•9 comments

Pawn is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax

https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm

21•unleaded•1w ago•5 comments

Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook

https://yeldirium.de/2025/10/09/pre-commit-hooks/index.html

15•hambes•1w ago•10 comments

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)

https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/

46•1970-01-01•6d ago•5 comments

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/

91•ottoke•12h ago•73 comments

Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB

https://demo.duckui.com

192•caioricciuti•19h ago•57 comments