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Much later in the year 2000 there was the 8-Bit Construction Set record: http://www.beigerecords.com/products/beg-004.html It had Atari and Commodore music (as audio) as well as At…

It appears to have taken San Jose’s place, from a combination of San Jose shrinking and Fort Worth growing.

I wonder if the next generation of experts will be held back by use of AI tools. Having learned things “the hard way” without AI tools may allow better judgement of these semi-reli…

I had the exact same reaction: biology or computers? The only hint I can see anywhere on the page is "Statistics > Machine Learning" above the abstract title. I really want it to b…

I’ll guess yes, since Fahrenheit 451 is by Bradbury. Great list, though.

Further testing indicated that the taste was neither enhanced nor diminished, but remained ‘‘very much like a pickle.’’ Our conclusion is that the culinary potential of electrical …

> “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in th…

I don't like this. While I understand the purpose of HN is to have meaningful and in-depth discussion, and simply stating an opinion doesn't really contribute much, this is somethi…

Virtually reaching for things far away might be interesting. I've alway been on the fence about VR, even for games, and never found any experiences to be compelling after a few min…

I see them used in pro/prosumer audio equipment, synthesizers, and effects, which is relatively low volume and medium-to-high budget. FPGAs (and CPLDs, µC+AFE, etc) are great for t…

Perhaps the tardigrades spilled on the moon by the lander crash will become giants

Yes, I definitely considered that as well. Basically, I knew that 23andme data would eventually exist outside 23andme, whether that be via hack, acquisition, or eminent domain. I a…

When I signed up for 23andme many years ago, it was via a friend in another country, who re-mailed it for me under a fake name and paid in cash. For some time I would log in throug…

If we started mining the earth’s core, it would seem infinite at first. Can we be trusted to only take a little bit and not eventually hollow it out?

> 30 year old movie It may be a shock but that movie will actually turn 41 this summer. It seems the author has shown that a replicant can trick a bank.

One step away from downloading more RAM

> The Bell System standard was an extremely high Erlang number I wasn't aware of erlang the unit (measuring telephone circuit load) and at first thought this had something to do wi…

Thank you for reminding me that SDF still exists. I just logged into my account there for the first time since 2005, and it still works.

Perhaps our electromagnetic communication would seem as advanced as cave paintings, and we have no means to identify more advanced communication.

Before I played the video and heard the sound it made, my first thought was that it would make a haunting clicking sound like a Geiger counter. Sure, it would be annoying, but I th…

Yes, commonly referred to as a “battery emulator” in EE labs for mobile devices. Some are lab grade test equipment from big name vendors, and some are home-grown concoctions which …

That sounds like a smart TV, or at least what one should be. Like an actually well made, non buggy, secure smart TV.

The worst thing about having read the USB PD specification is having to live with this knowledge

That's what I'm saying, in response to the previous comment saying this is to work around a bug. Bugs are common to all parts, where defects are unique per part. Binning works arou…