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No Magic Pill is a personal blog at nomagicpill.substack.com about science and hardware. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2026

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Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation
2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-03

What Hacker News says?

nomagicpill · 2026-01-21
Submitted Semiconductor Fabs III: Ion Implantation as a story · 3 points
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paulpauper · 2026-08-09
Submitted Semiconductor Fabs IV: The Safety as a story · 2 points
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surprisetalk · 2026-05-25
Submitted Confidence Scores for Exam Questions as a story · 2 points
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nomagicpill · 2026-01-31
Submitted January 2026 Links as a story · 2 points
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nomagicpill · 2026-05-04
Submitted April 2026 Links as a story · 1 points
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nomagicpill · 2026-04-08
Submitted Semiconductor Fabs III: The Data and Automation as a story · 1 points
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surprisetalk · 2026-03-30
Submitted Set the Line Before It's Crossed as a story · 1 points
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surprisetalk · 2026-02-08
Submitted Travel to Cheap Destinations as a story · 1 points
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paulpauper · 2026-01-13
Submitted Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation as a story · 1 points
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nomagicpill · 2026-01-07
Submitted Taiwan Trip Report as a story · 1 points
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nomagicpill · 2026-01-03
Submitted Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation as a story · 1 points
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nomagicpill · 2025-12-30
Submitted December 2025 Links as a story · 1 points
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