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Becky Stern
Personal blog · beckystern.comhardwarescience
Becky Stern's personal blog at beckystern.com covers hardware and science. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Becky Stern's posts as hardware teardowns, such as the Ray-Ban Stories teardown, which one commenter cited for battery capacity figures. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> I think you underestimate the power consumption of streaming video compared to what a VR headset already does Rayban stories have a 167mah battery[1] the quest2 has a 3640mah battery[2] even then, it only last 2 hours, more or less, rather than an entire day. [1] https://beckystern.com/2023/04/30/ray-bans-stories-teardown/ [2] https://www.meta.com/gb/legal/quest/product-information-shee...
Comment linking /2023/04/30/ray-bans-stories-teardown/
on “Project Aria 'Digital Twin' Dataset by Meta”Submitted My Experience Getting Licensed in Ham Radio (2020) as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pavlok Teardown as a story · 1 points
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