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Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol
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All the recent media attention on Bitcoin inspired me to learn how Bitcoin really works, right down to the bytes flowing through the netwo...
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How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
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The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years , but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm...
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The Z-80's 16-bit increment/decrement circuit reverse engineered
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The 8-bit Z-80 processor was very popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, powering many personal computers such as the Osborne 1, TRS-80,...
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The Z-80 has a 4-bit ALU. Here's how it works.
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The 8-bit Z-80 processor is famed for use in many early personal computers such the Osborne 1, TRS-80, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and it is s...
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Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors
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Microprocessors have become immensely more complex thanks to Moore's Law, but one thing that has been lost is the ability to fully under...
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Reverse-engineering the Z-80: the silicon for two interesting gates explained
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I've been reverse-engineering the Z-80 processor, using images from the Visual 6502 team. One interesting thing about the Z-80's s...
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