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Mike Senese

Personal blog · mikesenese.com/DOITsciencehardware

Mike Senese's personal blog at mikesenese.com covers science and hardware. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mike Senese's blog for a diagram of undersea cable construction and a DIY wood-fired pizza cooked on a customised Weber grill in about 90 seconds.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Mike Senese: TV host (Discovery, Fuse), former Executive Editor of Make: magazine, content director at Edge Impulse. Science, technology, and storytelling.

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://mikesenese.com/DOIT/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Unders... ^undersea cables are typically made up of a central fiber line, which look like human hairs in a small tube, and a shell of insulation and copper. You need power to send the signal across the ocean floor and, as we do not generate electricity underwater, all of the current needs to be sent from one end to the other to power all of the repeaters along th…

    Comment linking /DOIT/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Undersea-cable-580x553.jpg

    on “America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems”
  2. Submitted Wow: TV shows like Greys Anatomy and Ugly Betty are heavily green-screened (Vid) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Yeah, just the right oven. It took 90 seconds for pizza hacker in SF on a customized weber grill: https://www.mikesenese.com/DOIT/2010/05/wood-fired-pizza-on-...

    Comment linking /DOIT/2010/05/wood-fired-pizza-on-the-pizzaforge-bbq-oven-with-pizzahacker/

    on “The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA”
  4. Submitted How to Pirate A Vinyl Record as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Rekeying and picking locks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Secret Life of Machines: Overview of the Internal Combustion Engine as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted IPhone 4 vs Ducati Superbike at 100 mph as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Calculating Trajectory – In Case You Find Yourself Near a Giant Slingshot as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Les Paul vs. Thermite. Painful yet beautiful to see. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Ever wondered what would happen if you put a Les Paul in thermite? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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