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Frankly you could filter out every HN submission with the phrase "-year old" and miss absolutely nothing of value.
by causi 4y ago
Frankly you could filter out every HN submission with the phrase "-year old" and miss absolutely nothing of value.
- idiotsecant 4y agoYeah, stupid kids learning about things with real world projects. They aren't state of the art at all!
- goldenchrome 4y agoI get what you’re saying but the headlines tend to imply that they’re state of the art (like this one). It always takes a knowledgeable someone in the comments to bring this fact to light, which makes me think it’s usually clickbait. Kudos to the kid, but less kudos to the journalist.
- Double_a_92 4y agoThe kid is absolutely not stupid. But the media sensationalizing trivial stories is. Most likely this is an already existing design, which is rarely used because of something that makes it impracticable on a bigger scale. But because some smart kid happened to toy around with it, it's suddenly the new technology that will revolutionize the car business.
- marshray 4y agoIt's about the lifecycle of the inventor, not the motor, silly. Even though the probability is low that he is founding a revolution in magnetodynamics, I personally found this story more inspiring than a blog post about the latest front-end Javascript framework.