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Svarichevsky Mikhail
Personal blog · 3.14.by/en/read · on HN as BarsMonsterhardwarescience
Svarichevsky Mikhail's personal blog at 3.14.by covers hardware and science. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's hands-on hardware and computing posts: microscope views of CD/DVD surfaces, homemade CPUs, a Bitfury Bitcoin mining chip, Arduino liquid nitrogen overclocking, and a critique of Google App Engine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-19
- Why Google AppEngine sucks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-22
- Overclocking a quartz wristwatch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-10
- Building a nuclear reactor at home – from scratch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-06
- Homemade CPU – From Scratch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Theoretically, optical media should be easier to recover than magnetic, because the technology to view their surfaces in detail is readily available --- a light microscope is enough to humanly view the actual recorded data on a CD and even a DVD: https://3.14.by/en/read/cd-dvd-microscope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_HCLPdpkI (CD-R) It would be interesting to see what "disc rot" looks like at that level of deta…
Comment linking /en/read/cd-dvd-microscope
on “Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors (2017)”Submitted Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues as a story · 234 points
HN discussionKind of silly that you wouldn't use MongoDB yet you'd use GAE. GAE is a turd, Google has been struggling to compete in the cloud business and failed to come out with any value. You get locked into a Heroku-like platform with awful performance, awful stability, and arcane quotas. http://www.carlosble.com/2010/11/goodbye-google-app-engine-g... http://3.14.by/en/read/why-google-appengine-sucks
Comment linking /en/read/why-google-appengine-sucks
on “Meteor vs. Angular”Submitted Homemade CPU – from scratch as a story · 118 points
HN discussionIt wouldnt even be hard emulation in a strict sense of the word. 8086 itself is microcoded. Anything from https://3.14.by/en/read/homemade-cpus will be able to run equivalent microcode. https://gigatron.io/ is about 1000 transistors/diodes, totally doable by hand if you are crazy enough.
Comment linking /en/read/homemade-cpus
on “How long would it take to create a Windows 1.0 capable machine from scratch?”Submitted Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSome time ago I posted exactly about that : https://zeptobars.com/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-wha... My latest microscope is this one, but Casio photo was made by temporary microscope I assembled from Thorlabs & Olympus parts: https://3.14.by/en/read/olympus-bx60-fluorescence-metallurgi...
Comment linking /en/read/olympus-bx60-fluorescence-metallurgical-microscope
on “Casio-F-91W die-shot”Submitted Why Google AppEngine sucks as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI expected some extreme overclocking action complete with liquid nitrogen... https://3.14.by/en/read/arduino-liquid-nitrogen-overclocking
Comment linking /en/read/arduino-liquid-nitrogen-overclocking
on “A little more speed from the 6502”Submitted Building a nuclear reactor at home – from scratch as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWell, standard cell ASIC vs. full custom ASIC is a rather pedantic distinction IMHO :) By the way, someone has already developped a full custom ASIC for Bitcoin mining: http://3.14.by/en/read/bitfury-bitcoin-mining-chip
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on “Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Hashrate By 500%”Submitted Using Atom 330 with server applications as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIt's an April fools joke, as described in the forum Edit: see the second post: http://3.14.by/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396
Comment linking /forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396
on “Building a nuclear reactor at home – from scratch”Submitted Programming Intel 87C51 – first high-volume integrated microcontroller (1980) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building nuclear reactor at home - from scratch. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homemade CPU – From Scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is 16 Terabytes Enough for Anyone? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overclocking a quartz wristwatch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Activiting Office 2019 without Microsoft account as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overclock an Arduino with Liquid Nitrogen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internals of quartz wristwatch – and some overclocking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading videocard using a diamond cutting wheel. (2011) as a story · 1 points
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