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My 14 year old son went further in the Turing Complete, where the game shows you how to "invent" Assembly language, and he completed couple challenges after that (like writing Asse…

I have no comment about this particular product, its features or its author, you can read other comments if you want. I advise the readers to check out not only Nand2Tetris but als…

I would replace "perceived" with "significant" but yeah, pretty much.

I absolutely love this and will try as many as possible very soon. I think "intelligent search" (asking LLM questions to search on the Web by communicating, preferably by voice) is…

Be careful with venturing into the world of Chinese watches, it's addictive. They're like between $50 and $200, depending on the brand (they have more and less expensive brands now…

Just an FYI this type of watch design is usually referred to as "field watch". It originated in watches that were designed and made specifically for soldiers during WW2 in UK and U…

I had no idea Mensa did this, I will give this a try. I'm not sure he's up to all of these, but we'll try and see.

If I just let him do what he wants he just plays on iPads or computers in the library (iPads have bunch of games installed, computers do not have games but you can obviously play W…

This might work if your kid is a self-starter and really driven to improve himself/herself. Otherwise I highly recommend an extracurricular math program; there are many different o…

My 8yo partially dislikes Geronimo Stilton books because they're "too old" (they started in 2000s and are now mostly done publishing the new ones). The books you mentioned were fro…

I disagree with "much slower" but I do agree that it's different. It's not about having tired eyes (what do you use to watch videos?), it's about shortening attention span (you get…

(I'm going to assume you meant "interesting to a boy as opposed to a girl". If I'm incorrect my apologies). I only have boys so do not have personal experience but I read/heard tha…

Just as I said, Galaxy Zack series (he must have been 7 at the time though), Time Jumpers (fairly recently, there's only 4 of them and I don't know if the author will write more), …

Don't know why this is on HN but anyways. My youngest will be 9 soon. Finding books for him is pain. I started trying more in the last few weeks, grabbing more or less random thing…

I guess I'm in the minority but all these "music for programming" mixes make me apathetic and sleepy. Which is great for relaxation, but not so great for working. I need something …

...until one day it hallucinates or has existential crisis and does something funny with "dd" or "fdisk/sfdisk"... :)

> Everything is soldered in these days. [...insert sound of old timers laughing at newbies who declared T480/T490 overhyped for no reason because "no one care about upgradability a…

Great to know! The game is very well made, and as far as I know they delivered everything they promised to their backers (it was on Kickstarter). I bought the game (on PC AND on XB…

Adding my vote for Overload. I'm not sure if it is the same team that built Descent(s) but some of them were involved in level design of the originals. I believe music composers we…

It is state dependent, yes, but in all the states I looked at 16 you get restricted driver's license. You can drive without an adult but you cannot have more than one passenger, ca…

Most of what they need to know includes knowing road signs and road markings, right of way, going through intersections, following traffic lights, speed limits, keeping safe distan…

The actual drivers license (the one you can get at 18yo) does require road test in most states. The learner's permit that one can get at 14yo does not require road test, but when y…

Been taking certifications exams (Microsoft, then AWS) since early 2000s. Certification centers (eg Prometric) have cameras everywhere, and personnel watches you while you're takin…

I don't know why you need an article to explain that. Sh@tton of people in IT were let go in the last 1.5-2 years, so every job posting gets a huge number of responses, including f…

How is this not more wasteful than running a native app? You have to run a Web server IN ADDITION to the app. And your client-side is rendered in the browser which, again, is IN AD…