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I saw this video yesterday and considered posting it, but I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for HN. This channel has another video where it shows how the cle
by LPisGood 6mo ago
I saw this video yesterday and considered posting it, but I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for HN.
This channel has another video where it shows how the clean room lab is created starting from a basic backyard shed, and that was truly astounding. The positive pressure to keep the number of particles low in someone’s backyard is almost mystical to me.
- waterTanuki 6mo agoRecently I saw a post about Bonsai trees on the front page. Making your own RAM is 100% more relevant to HN than quite a few posts I see on the main page.
- vlovich123 6mo agoYou’re not sure if someone building a RAM clean room in a shed is appropriate for HackerNews, literally “news for nerds”? A dictionary purchase may be warranted
- kstrauser 6mo agoAgree with the sentiment, but “news for nerds” is Slashdot.
- SkinTaco 6mo agoSlashdot still exists?
- kstrauser 6mo agoWell, “exists” is a pretty broad spectrum.
- benob 6mo agoI miss the comment tagging system: insightful, informative, interesting, funny. It would make sense for hn.
- i_think_so 6mo agoYou forgot Troll, you insensitive clod!
- GuB-42 6mo ago"Score: 5, Troll" is the ultimate achievement. To put it that into context, some tags count as upvotes, others count as downvotes, "Troll" is a downvote. So to have your post labelled as "Troll" with a positive score, it has to have enough upvotes to compensate the penalty from the "Troll" votes, but without having another tag dominate. 5 is the maximum score. "Score: 5, Troll" is therefore the mark of a very successful troll.
- AnssiH 6mo agoThey also have "Underrated" and "Overrated" which apply points but do not act as tags. So I guess the easiest way to get +5 Troll is to have many Troll and Underrated votes, if it works the way I think it does.
- karolist 6mo agoyou must be new here
- midnitewarrior 6mo agoTheir standard is higher than that, "Stuff that matters."
- LPisGood 6mo agoI think he plans to go far beyond just making RAM in that clean room. This is pure speculation, but I suspect the goal of that channel is to just make doom from scratch. Given that the shed in this guy’s backyard is already approaching the entire national technological output of any country in the 1970s I think he may get there.
- grandinj 6mo agoIn a comment he says he is doing it for some research into a related thing (somethiing to do with GaN sheets?)
- fragmede 6mo agoYeah but it's a YouTube video. Those tend not to do super well on the front page.
- i_think_so 6mo agoThere's no mention of AGI, climate change, AWS outages, Trump, crypto schadenfreude or my new MVP that you should totally sign up for even though I just vibe coded it 20 minutes ago and the DNS hasn't fully propagated yet, but the API is amazing plz like comment and subscribe. Ok, maybe I'm being a bit cynical. Stories about bikeable cities are welcome too. And wasn't Soylent popular for a hot minute back in the day?
- julifcollado 6mo ago[dead]
- saganus 6mo agoIf you haven't seen this one, I highly recommend it: Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4&t=2070s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4&t=2070s It's quite old but I think there is no modern version of it. I've tried posting to HN a few times but it hasn't gained traction for some reason, but I find it absolutely mind blowing.
- jamiek88 6mo agoVideos in general don’t get much traction here. Most of the time I don’t want to watch them in this context either, when other sites I do. Maybe it’s just I come here for the old web feel when video was costly, rare and short.
- i_think_so 6mo agoWhich is a pity, because lots of videos really need to be seen to be fully appreciated. Especially the ones showing stuff being made. And the ones that tend to show up here are usually worth the time. I'm totally with the text folks on the 5 hour Fossdem sessions, though. Give me an accurate transcript I can grep or don't even bother.
- saganus 6mo agoYeah, I understand and partially agree. However I've discovered wonderful gems like this RAM video.
- 3form 6mo agoThere's something to it. I personally am happy to have one of these few precious places left where I can find content to read rather than watch.
- willkoman 6mo agoVideo links are naturally gonna get less clicks from people scrolling HN at work :)
- kiddico 6mo ago
- anitil 6mo agoI think if it's interesting to you then it's worth posting, and letting the voting system do it's thing. I only rarely post because by the time I've seen something it's usually already been posted
- duskdozer 6mo agoTbh this is exactly the sort of thing I'd come here to see
- jamesnorden 6mo agoYeah we need 20 more LLM submissions instead, that's the hard hitting content. /s
- stronglikedan 6mo ago> but I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for HN why even allow the cognitive overhead to worry about such a thing? it's not for you to decide anyway - let the users decide using the voting system that's built to task