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The Secret Life of Circuits
Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.
Michal Zalewski
geek culture, algorithms, electronic circuit design, and chainsaw safety tips. Click to read lcamtuf’s thing, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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How much of HN is AI?
TL;DR: 62% as of September 2026. This is up from ~40% in February.
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RAM: the forgotten history (2024)
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
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Recursion into madness
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.