The only place I ever encountered these was in the computer labs in Soda Hall at Berkeley. They’re a great fit for an environment like that so there’s one machine for each person without needing the extra space for a traditional tower. But I imagine outside of situations like this where you need something that’s not locked down for programming, Chromebooks have probably taken the lion’s share of the education market.

I loved using these for dev boxes or even servers, everything was compatible with Linux straight out of the box. Damn. :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36683756

Expanded version of previous recent coverage and discussions:

Intel Exiting the PC Business as It Stops Investment in the Intel NUC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674 (127 comments)

Intel is quitting on NUC computers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36683756 (3 comments)

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While I have your attention, is there any chance we can get a dupe checker before posting? Cheers

Edit: case in point, the Sarah Silverman suing openai posts, the Evernote posts, the fairphone posts, the France phone spying posts, the Canadian thumbs up emoji posts, I could go on sadly...

HN has a dupe checker based on URLs. If you're asking for a dupe checker based on content, not URLs, that's harder than it sounds. I don't know how to do it and I don't know of anyone who's solved the problem.

To solve it, you don't just have to identify when two articles contain the same story—you also have to distinguish when they don't contain the same story, even if the content is similar.

Since we don't know how to do that, we rely on a combination of moderation and community feedback (i.e., human judgment) to identify when a story has already had significant attention on HN, and merge or downweight the follow-ups. Since it isn't automated, this approach misses things. It does catch most of them though.

This is hn, just throw some ai at it...

The relevant data is all public, if you or anyone want to take a crack at it.

Those things were cool. I wanted to buy one for years, just couldn’t find one in person. I was going to screw it to the back of my monitor to get a Linux all in one like setup going

Man. Maybe I should grab one before it’s too late. Why do companies keep killing their coolest products?

There are tons of USFF / Micro form factor PCs from Dell, HP, and Lenovo on ebay, they're often a lot cheaper than the NUC too because they're usually old business hardware being sold off in bulk.

The NUC is neat but it's certainly not the only PC in that style out there.

One of those products I've always been on the verge of buying but never pulled the trigger.

I'm now looking at the System 76 Meerkat to fill the same void.

I’m pretty sure those are rebranded NUCs, so don’t wait too long.

I was admiring my old Intel atom passive cooled boards and an now non-working Motorola Smartphone with also an Intel atom. I still think fondly about those x86 initiatives.

This makes me sad, but fortunately there are many other manufacturers in this space. I have an NUC10i7FNB Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz, 1608 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) NUC as my desktop computer.

I love it! I work with IntelliJ for Java multithreaded software development usually with 12 software threads due to the 12 hardware threads, I work with up to 3 Lubuntu LXQT virtual machines simultaneously but usually just 1.

It's 4" by 4" compact and I use a Anker bluetooth speaker with it and it has 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD.