🖥 Retro Computing

8-bit Systems, Demoscene, Assembly Programming, Hardware Constraints, PowerPC, Vintage Macintosh, Classic OS, Hardware Restoration, Atari ST

Michael Kohn - tin can phone modem
mikekohn.net·22h
🧪Cassette Hacks
HP Microserver Gen8 ATI Radeon HD 5450 Compatability
techpowerup.com·1d·
Discuss: r/homelab
🖥️Modern Terminals
Prompting Nowhere: crafting an AI powered by a sewing machine and Raspberry Pi
maxpark.design·17h·
Discuss: Hacker News
❄️Nordic Design Philosophy
Fast Matrix Multiply on an Apple GPU
percisely.xyz·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News, Hacker News
⚡SIMD Vectorization
Vibe-Coding vs. AI-Assisted Development
adaptivealchemist.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚡Incremental Computation
[P] PKBoost: Biologically-Inspired Rust Gradient Booster for Drift/Adversarial ML (“Out-of-the-Box” Wins vs XGBoost/LGBM/CB)
reddit.com·1h·
Discuss: r/MachineLearning
⚡Homebrew CPUs
Can AI Co-Design Distributed Systems? Scaling from 1 GPU to 1k
harvard-edge.github.io·16h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎯Performance Proofs
Ursina - Game Engine for Python
dev.to·21h·
Discuss: DEV
📟Terminal Physics
Superbase on the Commodore 64
stonetools.ghost.io·5d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🕹️Retro Gaming
SPAD: Specialized Prefill and Decode Hardware for Disaggregated LLM Inference
arxiv.org·1d·
Discuss: r/LLM
💻Local LLMs
Quantum computing is "mission crtical"
federalnewsnetwork.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚛️Quantum Tape
The Project That Made Me Choose C Again
hackernoon.com·2d
🔩Systems Programming
Neuro-Symbolic AI
en.wikipedia.org·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔲Cellular Automata
Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
snarky.ca·11h·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News
🔄Language Evolution
Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective
jnsgr.uk·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔌Operating system internals
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
ee.torontomu.ca·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🏗️Compiler Archaeology
Coreboot 25.09 Released With 19 More Motherboards Supported, Better amdfwtool For Turin
phoronix.com·14h
🔌Operating system internals
Patina project – a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware
github.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🦀Embedded Rust
Hardware Stockholm Syndrome
programmingsimplicity.substack.com·4d·
Discuss: Substack
🔩Systems Programming
The Great Software Quality Collapse Or, How We Normalized Catastrophe
techtrenches.substack.com·2d·
Discuss: Substack
🛡️Error Boundaries