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J.D. Hodges
Personal blog · jdhodges.com/bloghardwarehistory
J.D. Hodges's personal blog at jdhodges.com covers hardware and history. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link J.D. Hodges' posts for practical tech notes: a way to install ImgBurn without bundled spyware, Apple M-series memory bandwidth comparisons, and a list of DisplayPort MST monitors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
What Hacker News says?
Maybe they're looking for a trusted curator or the "user" reviews give them a sense of reassurance. As an exercise, try to find the right download button on Imgburn's own website: http://www.imgburn.com/ Even during installation, you still have to navigate the "Uncheck spyware" minefield.[1] [1] http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/safe-version-imgburn-without-op...
Comment linking /blog/safe-version-imgburn-without-opencandy/
on “What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps”Submitted ThinkPad: From IBM's Bento Box to Lenovo's AI Workstations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou got me curious so I looked up the previous chips[0]. Memory bandwidth M1: 68 GB/s M2: 100 GB/s (47% increase) M3: 100 GB/s (0% increase) M4: 120 GB/s (20% increase) M5: 153 GB/s (27.5% increase) So, M6: 170 GB/s (11% increase) doesn’t seem impossible, though I would have expected more. [0]: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/apple-cpu-compared-m1-m3-m3-m4...
Comment linking /blog/apple-cpu-compared-m1-m3-m3-m4-m5-max/
on “Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)”Submitted MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOr get monitors that support daisy chaining ( https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-us/article/product-... ). P.S. There seems to be a list of monitors at https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/displayport-mst-lcd-list/
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on “ACE on a USB→HDMI Adapter”Submitted The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble as a story · 1 points
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