[InWin Launches $999 928 Super-Tower | Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/inwin-928-super-tower-pc-case,39317.html) - MOST OF THE STUFF BEING UNIQUELY SOLD IS LARGELY UNNECESSARY - LED AND BAUBLES ARE OVERPRICED WINDOW DRESSING Substrate independence: there are many beautiful examples of it in physics. Waves, for instance: they have properties such as speed, wavelength and frequency, and physicists can study the equations they obey without even needing to know what particular substance they're waves in. When you hear something, you're detecting sound waves caused by molecules bouncing around in the air, and we can calculate all sorts of interesting things about these waves - how their intensity fades as the square of the distance, such as how they bend when they pass through open doors and how they bounce off of walls and cause echoes - without knowing what air is made of. We can ignore all details about oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, etc., because the only property of the wave's substrate that matters and enters into the famous wave equation is a single number that we can measure: the wave speed. This wave equation was first discovered and put to great use long before physicists had even established that atoms and molecules existed. A wave can travel across a lake, even though none of its water molecules do - they mostly bob up and down, like fans doing "the wave" in a sports stadium. You can't have computation without matter, but any matter will do as long as it can be arranged into NAND gates, connected neurons or some other building block enabling universal computation. It's often only the substrate-independent aspect that we're interested in: a surfer usually cares more about the position and height of a wave than about its detailed molecular composition. Nobody knows for sure what the next blockbuster computational substrate will be, but we do know that we're nowhere near the limits imposed by the laws of physics. That limit is a whopping 33 orders of magnitude (1033 times) beyond today's state of the art. Even if we keep doubling the power of our computers every couple of years, it will take over two centuries until we reach that final frontier. [I give up on free software phones (2019) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36401359) [Why I Give Up on Free Software Phones · Yotam's blog](https://yotam.net/posts/why-i-give-up-on-free-software-phones/) [Mjolnir | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34516952) [Mjolnir](https://fabiensanglard.net/mjolnir/index.html) [Supermicro Fan Speed Script - b3n.org](https://b3n.org/supermicro-fan-speed-script) [Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370551) [Hector Martin on Twitter: "Well, this is unfortunate. It turns out Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity. If you do, they drop down to HDD performance. Thread."](https://web.archive.org/web/20220217073532/https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1494213855387734019) [Discover your hardware - h-node.org](https://h-node.org/wiki/page/en/Discover-your-hardware) [Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576132) [Why Do Electronic Components Have Such Odd Values? – Digilent Blog](https://digilent.com/blog/why-do-electronic-components-have-such-odd-values/) [I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199967) [I made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS | codedbearder](https://codedbearder.com/posts/f3-backplane/) [Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40186960) [Is it OK to daisy chain UPSs? | Eaton](https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/support/eaton-answers/daisy-chain-ups.html) [Framework Laptop 16 Review | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39104363) [Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability Review - Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16) [Brian Kelly](https://morethancoding.com/2011/05/22/the-programmer-pyramid/) (2011) The Programmer Pyramid ## computers guides [Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560300) [Making USB devices - end to end guide to your first gadget](https://popovicu.com/posts/making-usb-devices/) [GitHub - mikeroyal/CPLD-Guide: Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) Guide](https://github.com/mikeroyal/CPLD-Guide) ## chromecast [Moments in Chromecast's history | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171060) [7 memorable moments in Google Chromecast history](https://blog.google/products/google-nest/chromecast-history/) ## google pixel [Google Pixel 9 Pro | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237275) [Pixel 9 Pro & Pixel 9 Pro XL - The most advanced AI on Pixel](https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro?hl=en-US) ## old computers [My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346254) [My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do! - Raymii.org](https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html) [I love my GPD Micro PC | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513927) [I love my GPD Micro PC](https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2022/08/18/i-love-my-gpd-micro-pc/) [Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449159) [Rebble · Hackathon, App Updates & More](https://rebble.io/2022/11/02/rebble-hackathon.html) [27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162265) [McGST27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful](https://web.archive.org/web/20230602095716/https://mcgst.com/2020/12/01/27-years-later-and-the-psion-3a-is-still-wonderful/) [My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124986) [My Favourite Computer, An Old Mac - Muezza.ca](https://web.archive.org/web/20230210100618/http://muezza.ca/thoughts/favourite_computer/) [A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35995959) [Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB of memory - Liliputing](https://liliputing.com/past-meets-present-in-this-200-mini-laptop-with-a-intel-8088-chip-and-640kb-of-memory/) [Liliputing](https://liliputing.com/) Linux Mobile News [Gordon Bell has died | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432688) [Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89 | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/) [100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365187) [100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born - IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-history) [Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789179) [Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items – GeekWire](https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-museum-logs-off-for-good-as-paul-allen-estate-will-auction-vintage-items/) [A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814011) [Valve.Computer](https://www.valve.computer/) ### guides [How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536436) [How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop - Unterminated](https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop) [The 6502 instruction set as a database | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972603) [Screwtape / isa65xx · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/isa65xx) [Internet Artifact Museum | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013477) [Internet Artifacts](https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/) - it's got a LOT of things, which will all require mentioning on many different pages ## small computers [The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769001) [Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets](https://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nfc.html) ## smart TV [GitHub - vitalets/awesome-smart-tv: A curated list of awesome resources for building Smart TV apps](https://github.com/vitalets/awesome-smart-tv) [Smart TV - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_TV) ## steam deck [More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586346) [Boiling Steam: "75% of Steam Games Ever Tested…" - mastodon.cloud](https://mastodon.cloud/@boilingsteam/110655979942850128) [Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707816) [Why Steam Deck is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years | TechSpot](https://www.techspot.com/article/2620-steam-deck-pc-gaming-moment/) [Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735881) [Framework | Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework](https://frame.work/blog/now-offering-2tb-ssds-for-steam-deck-in-the-framework) [Steam Deck: First Anniversary | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34955347) [Steam Deck: First Annniversary of the Ultimate Gaming Platform](https://boilingsteam.com/steam-deck-first-anniversary-of-the-ultimate-gaming-platform/) [Valve Steam Deck | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27846969) [Introducing Steam Deck OLED](https://www.steamdeck.com/en/) [Steam Deck OLED | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208334) [Steam Deck™](https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeck_2023) [CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Deck | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30309065) [Steam Deck / Hardware · GitLab](https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamDeck/hardware) ### guides [Inside the Steam Deck's APU | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38977983) [A Suprising Discovery Inside The Steam Deck's APU](https://boilingsteam.com/an-in-depth-look-at-the-steam-deck-apu/)