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The Modos Blog
Company blog · modos.tech/blog · on HN as alex-a-sotohardware
The Modos Blog is the company blog at modos.tech, writing about hardware. Since 2022, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Modos Paper Laptop – laptop with e-ink screen”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Modos Blog for updates on Modos's open-source e-ink projects, including the Paper Monitor, its design posts, the developer kit, and an open e-ink laptop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 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?
- Modos Paper Laptop – laptop with e-ink screen8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-04-01
- The Modos Paper Monitor5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-06-22
- Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-21
- Modos Developer Kit Now Live on Crowd Supply3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-04
- The Modos Paper Laptop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Modos is working on a 60fps e-ink monitor, no idea about ghosting improvements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40423746 -> https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor-pre-launch-o...
Comment linking /blog/modos-paper-monitor-pre-launch-on-crowd-supply
on “Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet”Submitted The Modos Paper Laptop as a story · 323 points
HN discussionVery cool. Been hoping for something like this. Also check out https://www.modos.tech/
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on “Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet”Submitted The Modos Paper Monitor as a story · 214 points
HN discussionThis may be interesting for you: https://www.modos.tech/ I just heard about them recently and am curious how the final result will look like.
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on “Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text”Submitted Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply as a story · 152 points
HN discussionThey do have concept design renders in a follow-up blog post, “Designing the Modos Paper Monitor”: https://www.modos.tech/blog/designing-modos-paper-monitor
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on “The Modos Paper Monitor”Submitted Modos Developer Kit Now Live on Crowd Supply as a story · 16 points
HN discussionEven at high-quality display, B&W e-ink offers 2--4 Hz refresh, and can offer ~16 Hz or better in "X-Mode" display. I won't pretend that's great video quality, but it is possible to view animations or videos using it. There are higher-refresh displays as well. This one advertises 60 Hz refresh and colour (it's not clear whether colour can drive at 60 Hz). < https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/new-open-source-high-…
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on “LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear”Submitted The Modos Paper Monitor as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAlready widely-available e-ink devices have been capable of far better than 1 Hz refresh for years . The idea that this isn't possible has entered into the Land of HN Tropes That Will Not Die. I use an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, now three years old, with locally-installed Termux (Linux environment for Android) and remote SSH fairly frequently. It can run highly-interactive text apps, with slight ghosting, and could probabl…
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on “E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space”Submitted Modos Paper Laptop – laptop with e-ink screen as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'd probably buy one, mostly because there is no other e-ink laptop available yet. Regarding battery life, since you've got LTE on board, you'd be better off by offloading the processing to a remote server and connecting via ssh, vnc etc. imo. See also similar art: http://www.paperterm.org/notes.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432921 and https://www.modos.tech
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on “Ask HN: Would you buy a modern Toshiba Libretto?”Submitted Modos: The World’s First E-ink Laptop as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFascinating, this led to this projects which is pretty interesting. https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor Seems like a very exciting effort and product but I'm not sure if it's still active.
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on “Paperlike Color: World’s First Color E-Ink Monitor”Submitted The Modos Paper Monitor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-developer-kit-live
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on “Modos Paper Monitor Developer Kit”Submitted Modos E-Ink Monitor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe team at Modos https://www.modos.tech/blog/get-involved-with-modos is building an open source Eink laptop
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on “Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years”Submitted The Modos Paper Monitor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's worth noting this person (Wenting Zhang aka zephray) is the same one that's also worked on the eink drivers for https://www.modos.tech/ - https://twitter.com/zephray_wenting/status/15346412997054996... See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31674373
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on “Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)”Submitted The Modos Paper Laptop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modos Developer Kit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Modos Developer Kit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modos: Open source hardware E-ink laptop in development as a story · 1 points
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