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55 from 31 Dec 2009 to 8 Jul 2026
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2026 1

  1. Hyundai Ioniq Electric (28 kWh) battery aging

2025 2

  1. Tyan GT62D-B7106 + S7106GMR-CGN: Why are CPUs slower than expected?
  2. Shell Scripting in C++

2024 1

  1. Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on… by its LED display

2023 2

  1. Calculator
  2. Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock Type 40AC

2022 2

  1. Depstech DW49 Webcam — Teardown and Measurements
  2. Capacitors in storage can get the plague too

2020 1

  1. Portland Black Lives Matter Mural

2019 2

  1. Elections 2019: Who is really getting a tax cut?
  2. Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking

2018 4

  1. A Cardboard Haswell Box
  2. The Microarchitecture Behind Meltdown
  3. PET is hygroscopic: Water diffuses out of a Sprite bottle
  4. Microbenchmarking Return Address Branch Prediction

2017 1

  1. AMD Polaris (RX 550) on Mageia Linux 6

2015 5

  1. Cyclone/Stratix V Carry-Lookahead…bug?
  2. BIND patch for Mandriva 2010.2
  3. TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in x86 Processors
  4. Windows 9x TLB Invalidation Bug
  5. ASRock H81M-ITX Overclocking

2014 5

  1. Bash bug patch for older Mandriva distros
  2. RTL8192CU and Linux 3.13.10
  3. Store-to-Load Forwarding and Memory Disambiguation in x86 Processors
  4. AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver Modules and Hyper-Threading
  5. More Cardboard Boxes

2013 2

  1. Measuring Reorder Buffer Capacity
  2. Intel Ivy Bridge Cache Replacement Policy

2012 13

  1. A Comparison of Intel’s 32nm and 22nm Core i5 CPUs: Power, Voltage, Temperature, and Frequency
  2. JMicron JMB363 Add-on Card AHCI mode
  3. Compiling a Contrived Chunk of Code
  4. OS X Process Scheduling
  5. Replacing VIA HD Audio Codec Chip
  6. Intel HD4000 QE/CI Acceleration
  7. Ivy Bridge Power Consumption
  8. Ivy Bridge Benchmarks
  9. Ivy Bridge De-lidding
  10. Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H Motherboard
  11. Thinkpad X61 Tablet LCD Bubbles
  12. Ikea “Laver” Chair repair
  13. Mediawiki Parsers

2011 4

  1. Samsung Linux CUPS USB Printing
  2. Teksavvy MLPPP Performance
  3. Hyper-Threading Performance
  4. Linux SMT-Aware Process Scheduling

2010 9

  1. PSU Fan Control
  2. Refrigerator Power Efficiency
  3. Seasonal Fuel Efficiency
  4. Core 2, Nehalem, FPGA CAD
  5. Cardboard Boxes
  6. Teksavvy IPv6
  7. USB Port Repair
  8. Recording Equipment
  9. Spam

2009 1

  1. Compiler Performance