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"The Secret Life of Circuits" is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
27•surprisetalk•3d ago

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AmazingEveryDay•3d ago
I looked at sample chapter, the fonts and layout are visually repulsive.
_Microft•36m ago
This made me have a look and I do like it a lot.

The wide margins remind me of university coursebooks.

polotics•25m ago
Sir, you have a knack for inspiring commentary: the exact opposite of damning with faint praise! Also 0% slop it made me pre-order the book immediately.
ChuckMcM•3d ago
This is a much better introduction to circuits than most. You actually get a bit of depth rather than a cookbook of "do this to get that" sort of prose.
dgellow•10m ago
That’s also what I really like about “Practical Electronics for Inventors”, the authors explains the underlying physics for each component. Though the theory chapter can be heavy if you want to follow everything. “Secrets Life of Circuits” seems to be a bit more approachable
moiriad•47m ago
Super looking forward to it. Got it on preorder in Europe! Will still be a bit of a waiting time.

Always enjoy reading the blog posts, and this seems like a great way to support work that gives me joy. Who knows, might start picking up actual electronics as side projects. Hardware work seems like such a great way to get code into the physical world.

illwrks•30m ago
The artwork on the cover should come with a health and safety notice :D
hermitcrab•18m ago
I like the pop art style. But what is she going to do with that soldering iron - stick it up her nose?
_Microft•13m ago
Maybe it should look like someone in a Western movie blowing smoke from a pistol?
janice1999•16m ago
Just ordered. Love these kinds of books. Any others like this one people are aware of?
twizod•13m ago
Pre-ordered mine(hardback). Yeesh....I have no impulse control because this looks like so much fun,
hermitcrab•12m ago
I like the 'certified clank free' logo. It that a standard thing now?
yu3zhou4•2m ago
[delayed]

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
56•ereiamjh•1h ago•28 comments

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
239•emigre•4h ago•103 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
102•num42•4h ago•71 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
120•nsoonhui•3h ago•58 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
847•theanonymousone•15h ago•417 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
195•z-mach9•6h ago•69 comments

"The Secret Life of Circuits" is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
27•surprisetalk•3d ago•13 comments

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/389219
56•gainsurier•4h ago•41 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
710•jcbhmr•20h ago•285 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
83•lioeters•7h ago•18 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
99•jegp•8h ago•38 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
494•joeriddles•1d ago•333 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
364•f311a•15h ago•78 comments

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
48•evacchi•2d ago•15 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
125•maxall4•11h ago•88 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
84•agluszak•2d ago•32 comments

Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step

https://github.com/awlevin/typesafe-computer-use
81•rahimnathwani•2d ago•52 comments

Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-arent-just-beautiful-theyre-biological-wonders-20260916/
26•randomImmigrant•2d ago•6 comments

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201337119
3•austinallegro•2d ago•0 comments

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundati...
28•noobplus•5h ago•2 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
275•ohjeez•1d ago•105 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
630•ilreb•1d ago•266 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
34•torutofu•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
198•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•89 comments

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
194•synack•17h ago•70 comments

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215
92•rochansinha•15h ago•13 comments

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157
168•succinct_ideas•1d ago•71 comments

Suppress vulnerabilities applying Kubernetes context to scans

https://github.com/alegrey91/vex8s
6•alegrey91•1d ago•2 comments

Veronese's Dogs

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/veroneses-dogs
7•prismatic•2d ago•1 comments

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
301•csmantle•1d ago•100 comments