An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]
sohkamyung
29 points
5 comments
July 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
SOLAR_FIELDS
I’ll go ahead and post the obligatory comment about how it’s a bit ridiculous that they didn’t include in the spec an easy way to quickly visually identify the capabilities of the cable (data vs power etc). Single biggest flaw of the spec in my opinion
gregsadetsky
Discussed 11 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862165 (81 comments)
RijilV
Find https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html to be quicker and easier to understand (posted a month or so ago)