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Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:30AM (#49952566)
Very sad news. My VHS box set of "Triumph of the Nerds" resides proudly on my bookshelf.
Re:Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @12:02PM (#44367649)
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
Re:I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for... on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:50PM (#42688072)
You might find some useful information on elinux.org here: https://elinux.org/Interfacing_with_I2C_Devices

Additionally, search on the wiki of i2c.

Re:Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:46AM (#42146872)
Excellent article, it really takes me back. You can still access the old linux-sh.org website on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20080705101211/http://www.linux-...
Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:57PM (#38029291)
What am I missing here? Hasn't SoftIron been building this exact thing for around 5 years? Heck, they design and manufacture all of the hardware as well.

https://softiron.com/hypercloud/

https://softiron.com/blog/run-bmc-why-we-decided-to-build-ou...

Re:Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 2023? on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:27AM (#37831802)
I'd recommend AsciiDoctor. It provides a syntax that's very markdown-like. Store your book as src in Git somewhere and move seamlessly between Fedora and your Mac. There's a nice VSCode AsciiDoctor plugin and an extremely helpful community. And it outputs PDF, DocBook, epub, and HTML.
Re:Ask HN: Where are you looking for remote jobs? on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:24PM (#37756347)
I just learned of this site today, not sure if it's any good but it's specific to remote:

https://developers.expertremote.io/

Re:I wish Asciidoc was more popular on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:58PM (#34683360)
I really like asciidocs support for diagramming via the asciidoctor-diagram extension. It's supports lots of unique and useful diagramming formats, such as graphviz, ditaa, bytefield, etc.
Re:Intel Pathfinder IDE for RISC-V Released. Free for Community Users on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:13PM (#32653898)
Intel® Pathfinder for RISC-V supports Bare Metal, FreeRTOS, Zephyr OS and Yocto Linux.

Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V is scalable from individual users in academia and research, all the way to large-scale commercial projects. The table below summarizes the feature sets available currently, with new and exciting features being added on an ongoing basis.

Re:The myth of the myth of the lone genius on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:41PM (#27607475)
“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by a committee… i’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… not on the committee. Not on a team” — Steve Wozniak
Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building pro... on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:54PM (#22301395)
Internal Combustion Engines by Ganeson
Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen? on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:43PM (#18086859)
Some of my favourite nerdy documentaries:

BBS: The Documentary https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI

The KGB, the Computer, and Me https://youtu.be/EcKxaq1FTac

8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars https://youtu.be/Jq_t-v0bDZ8

Re:PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:33PM (#15309031)
http://linuxgizmos.com/ is usually pretty good.

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