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Imran S. Haque
Personal blog · ihaque.org/posts · on HN as _ihaquehardwaresciencecareer
Imran S. Haque's personal blog at ihaque.org covers hardware, science and career. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Decoding the Peloton”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Imran Haque's multi-part Peloton series, which covers the bike's hardware. The only comment is a correction pointing to the working URL of the Part III hardware post.
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.
A page on Imran S. Haque's personal site
Most-linked posts?
- Decoding the Peloton3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-10-16
- /posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardware/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07
What Hacker News says?
The results Grail presented as a talk at ESMO are fairly similar to those they presented in somewhat less detail at conferences earlier in the year (AACR and ASCO). For those who are interested in a deeper dive on this technology, its potential limitations, and its potential benefits, I wrote up a three-part series earlier this year breaking down recent advances in liquid-biopsy-based cancer detection: Part I: regar…
Comment linking /posts/2019/08/18/early-detection-mid-2019-part-3/
on “New blood test could detect more than 20 types of cancer”Submitted Decoding the Peloton as a story · 162 points
HN discussion(Author here) There's no built-in mode for constant power. (Nor could there be, on the original Bike that I have, as the resistance control is manual.) The new one might have it. At a hardware level I'm not sure how well it would work. Out of the box, the tablet only queries the bike for cadence/power/resistance every 100ms, one query at a time in round robin, so your power reading is only coming every 300ms. Howeve…
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/26/pelomon-part-ii-emulating-peloton/
on “Decoding the Peloton”Submitted Decoding the Peloton: From Voltages to “Cadence, Output, and Resistance” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAuthor here. This work actually dates back from August-October of last year for the most part, but I didn't get to finish writing it up till the holidays. Happy to take questions here or on Twitter (see my profile). If anyone is interested in building their own PeloMon, a full BOM is present at the bottom of the third post in the series ( https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar... ), and the Git…
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardware/
on “Decoding the Peloton”Submitted Decoding the Peloton as a story · 3 points
HN discussion(Author here) Power meter pedals are significantly more expensive than the bits that went into this project. (There's a complete BOM in the follow-up post: https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar... ). Also, there's no fun in just buying it ;)
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardware/
on “Decoding the Peloton”Submitted The Drug Discovery Checklist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah! I saw your blog post about reviving your Flywheel and decided to finally take this project on. Thanks for the inspiration! (No thanks for writing your code in Node ;) https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar... . The gymnasticon code was helpful to see before I tracked down the XML specs for the BLE characteristics, though!)
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardware/
on “Decoding the Peloton”Submitted Smartening up a whole-home humidifier as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBroken link, try: https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar...
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardware/
on “Decoding the Peloton”Submitted Decoding the Peloton (PeloMon, Part I) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding the Peloton as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Careers in Academia vs. Industry: A Clash of Two Value Systems as a story · 1 points
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