Here context is important: "Homemade Ice Cream" even on Hacker News is more likely the meaning than "Homemade Integrated Circuits". "IC Density and Moore's

Here context is important: "Homemade Ice Cream" even on Hacker News is more likely the meaning than "Homemade Integrated Circuits". "IC Density and Moore's Law" is clearly about integrated circuits and not ice cream. Yup, a lot of people in computing really hold on to jargon like hugging mama.