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I wish a PC form factor like NLX[0] had become popular where the CPU and memory is on a board that's inserted into a backplane parallel to the add-in cards (similar to VME[1]). IIRC NLX was mostl…

"Boots on the Moon!"

There was a thread on the story here on HN ten months ago.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161848 …

So, Big Head is running Twitter?

> I just presumed they un-paywalled stuff every now and again (like after N days or so). All of LWN's paywalled articles become free for everyone to view after a week. During the week that art…

If dang or someone could edit my original title submission to fit the field it would be great. It would seem that the Android client I'm using truncates titles without warning.

A lack of state sales tax is part of the reason that the Apple Store in Portland, Oregon sells so many iPhones (in quantity) to tourists (particularly from Asia). Well, that and the fact that Portland…

> This has created problems with bad device driver support for non-Windows operating systems, as discussed in a recent HN thread. That story for the interested was "The growing image-processor…

April 28, 2022 - Businessman Sentenced to One Year Imprisonment for ITAR Brokering Violations[0] This is just the first of many ITAR violation stories that I found when doing a quick search. ITAR viol…

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32623488

I've long wanted to do something similar to David Tulloh's Linux powered microwave.[0] [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/674877/ …

DEF CON 24 - A Monitor Darkly - Reversing and Exploiting Ubiquitous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4_POi9rsg …

Honestly, if you enjoy fresh chilies and you're in Europe I'd recommend growing them. The seeds are small, light, and inexpensive to ship. As I understand it, chilies quite forgiving and eas…

> What's this "inedible" skin? What kind of chillies are these? If I had to guess, I'd say they're Hatch aka New Mexico chilies.[0] Once roasted, the now blistered skins ar…

There's an HBO docuseries called McMillion$ [0] based on the story. [0] https://www.hbo.com/mc-millions …

I wonder if HN's single threaded nature has anything to do with it. Eight cores or 16 threads don't do much good when your bespoke Arc Lisp stack is single core limited.

Some the the best power tools come from Liechtenstein. Hilti makes a solid tool but they're far from cheap.

As a lapsed vegetarian I've always seen mushrooms as the original meatless meat. Praise be glutamates.

I thought the audio subsystem in Mac OS was the best of the bunch (Windows, Mac, and Linux). At least that's what I was told by my old audio geek friends that swore by Mac OS. Why would a video c…

That hurts. My life would be substantially less rich without Dijon. I love mustard. Mustard is truly the king of condiments.

Goat Ops[0] is real! [0] https://www.goatops.com/

Their AI inference coprocessors seem to be doing pretty well.

As I understand it Linux's VFS and Block layer aren't really designed to exploit the type of throughput and latency that Optane provided. What I'm curious about is what happened to all …