Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another
Everything is on GitHub: github.com/epatel/discrete6502 — the generation pipeline, the SPICE testbenches, the KiCad board, the manufacturing package and the design notes. Logic data from the visual6502 project, which traced a real 6502 die photograph by photograph. Their netlist is licensed CC BY-NC-SA, so this design is non-commercial and inherits the same terms.
- ▪Everything is on GitHub: github.com/epatel/discrete6502 — the generation pipeline, the SPICE testbenches, the KiCad board, the manufacturing package and the design notes.
- ▪Logic data from the visual6502 project, which traced a real 6502 die photograph by photograph.
- ▪Their netlist is licensed CC BY-NC-SA, so this design is non-commercial and inherits the same terms.
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| Original publisher | Github |
| Canonical URL | https://epatel.github.io/discrete6502/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:58:30 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T23:24:42.208Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T23:24:56.815Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 3lSuQ1GaH8xB |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Everything is on GitHub: github.com/epatel/discrete6502 — the generation pipeline, the SPICE testbenches, the KiCad board, the manufacturing package and the design notes. Logic data from the visual6502 project, which traced a real 6502 die photograph by photograph. Their netlist is licensed CC BY-NC-SA, so this design is non-commercial and inherits the same terms. Inspired by the MOnSter 6502 by Eric Schlaepfer and Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, which proved a discrete 6502 was possible. This is an independent design and is not affiliated with that project. 6502, Apple II, Commodore 64 and NES are referenced for identification only.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Github.
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