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by Ken Shirriff
Ken Shirriff photographs chips under a microscope and reverse-engineers them transistor by transistor — the Intel 8087's microcode, core memory from a Spacelab computer, vintage analog ICs — to show how computing hardware really worked. This is computing history written at the level of the silicon, by someone who has actually traced the circuits.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 6, 2026
AI Snake Oil on scaling myths, Import AI on 100K training runs, and Tyler Cowen finds AI in the productivity statistics for real this time.
