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Why there is so much love for such project where someone connected a couple of ready made things (maybe except the case) and everyone gets excited?
by varispeed 6y ago
Why there is so much love for such project where someone connected a couple of ready made things (maybe except the case) and everyone gets excited?
- syntaxing 6y agoThe hotswap 3D printed mechanism is pretty neat (reminds me of the swappable harddrive days). As for Rpi clusters, its just a neat idea to think about. It's not entirely trivial hardware or software wise to load balance 14 Rpis for "one purpose".
- fartcannon 6y agoWhy are pop music, fast food and sitcoms so extremely popular? They maximize a small amount of appeal across a broad group. Every step deeper, or obscure loses you more and more mass appeal. Therefore, projects with high max appeal make it to the top of lists like HN. It's no conspiracy.
- varispeed 6y agoPop music is extremely difficult to make although the end product looks "simple".
- xtat 6y agoYou are describing the elements of most of the best ideas in history.
- paco3346 6y agoI think for me there's just a hobby/cool factor. I have no intention to build one nor can I think of a good use case but it's still neat to look at someone else's handiwork.