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You’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 ago
Agree with the sentiment, but “news for nerds” is Slashdot.
- SkinTaco 6mo ago
  Slashdot still exists?
  - kstrauser 6mo ago
    Well, “exists” is a pretty broad spectrum.
    - benob 6mo ago
      I miss the comment tagging system: insightful, informative, interesting, funny. It would make sense for hn.
      - i_think_so 6mo ago
        You 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 ago
        They 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 ago
    you must be new here
- midnitewarrior 6mo ago
  Their standard is higher than that, "Stuff that matters."
LPisGood 6mo ago
I 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 ago
  In a comment he says he is doing it for some research into a related thing (somethiing to do with GaN sheets?)
fragmede 6mo ago
Yeah but it's a YouTube video. Those tend not to do super well on the front page.
- pts_ 6mo ago
  Just gimme the transcripts for a speed read
- dgellow 6mo ago
  It’s perfectly ok to submit links that don’t reach the front page!
i_think_so 6mo ago
There'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
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kstrauser 6mo ago

Agree with the sentiment, but “news for nerds” is Slashdot.

SkinTaco 6mo ago
Slashdot still exists?
- kstrauser 6mo ago
  Well, “exists” is a pretty broad spectrum.
  - benob 6mo ago
    I miss the comment tagging system: insightful, informative, interesting, funny. It would make sense for hn.
    - i_think_so 6mo ago
      You 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 ago
        They 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 ago
  you must be new here
midnitewarrior 6mo ago
Their standard is higher than that, "Stuff that matters."

LPisGood 6mo ago

I 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 ago
In a comment he says he is doing it for some research into a related thing (somethiing to do with GaN sheets?)

fragmede 6mo ago

Yeah but it's a YouTube video. Those tend not to do super well on the front page.

pts_ 6mo ago
Just gimme the transcripts for a speed read
dgellow 6mo ago
It’s perfectly ok to submit links that don’t reach the front page!

i_think_so 6mo ago

There'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

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