Hacker News: Nanite

New comment by Nanite in "Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab"

Nanite — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:52:14 +0000

"Fab" seems a bit of an overstatement. What he is describing is similar in capabilities to what any average university lab with a device fabrication facility is capable of.

New comment by Nanite in "Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API"

Nanite — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 08:06:43 +0000

Which, at least for the Oslo area, offers more reliable predictions than Apple's weather app (which is always weather.com, afaik) Having said that, and having the Norwegian Meteorological Institute down the road from where I live, their local predictions are often completely off on rain, to the point I always bring a raincoat when going out.

Lightyear zero first solar powered production vehicle

Nanite — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://lightyear.one/articles/lightyear-0-is-here-the-world-s-first-production-ready-solar-car

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686102

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Nanite in "Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? (2021)"

Nanite — Wed, 11 May 2022 13:12:44 +0000

Can confirm, but not sure about better QA of the branded ones. Company issued macbook came with a "Satechi" hub, which died within 6 months, while two other noname AliExpress ones have worked with no issue for 2 years now

New comment by Nanite in "Everything with a battery should have an off switch"

Nanite — Mon, 09 May 2022 08:11:52 +0000

Examples lying around in my house:

Bathroom scale: lovely it powers up when you tap it, but eats up 2 button cells a year for a few dozen uses a year

Kitchen scales, bit more use, at least once a day but again 2 button cells a year

electronic caliper: Same, eats up 1 button cell a year, just sitting in my toolbox

Strangely enough none of our kids toys with batteries seem to suffer from this problem

How much extra cost does a hard on/off switch add to the bill of materials?

‘Brutal’ selling in speculative tech stocks knocks Tiger hedge funds

Nanite — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/4af5c796-b8a5-4046-baf4-c9c7411929c2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613743

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

D-Wave to go public after $1.2B merger deal with SPAC

Nanite — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:53:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/dwave_spac_public/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30271606

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by Nanite in "Drivers locked out of their cars at Royston Tesco"

Nanite — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:24:26 +0000

The “China Export” logo is a blatant but subtle imitation of the actual CE logo. Quite frankly insidious...

https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H...

New comment by Nanite in "Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi"

Nanite — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:27:28 +0000

Search for : NDIR CO2 sensor module. The ones without auto-calibration go for under $20 in China.

New comment by Nanite in "China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do"

Nanite — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:27:59 +0000

Evidence to the contrary:

http://www.vdlbuscoach.com/News/News-Library/2018/Europa-s-g...

I use these on a regular basis, for urban environments, electric busses combined with overhead superchargers at the end-of-line terminals work really well.

New comment by Nanite in "Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002)"

Nanite — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:11:45 +0000

I once had the pleasure to use a high speed travelator in Paris going at 8mph, I recall they used several acceleration stages in series before getting on the main section. Also reminded me of the ones portrayed in Asimov's novels. Too bad they shut them down almost a decade ago.

https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/05/21/paris-experim...

New comment by Nanite in "The Hawk Eye: a 3D-printed three axis tourbillon project"

Nanite — Sun, 13 May 2018 10:28:21 +0000

I just viewed the stl-files, It's about 300x300x170mm

New comment by Nanite in "UCLA researchers have produced X-rays by simply unrolling Scotch tape (2008)"

Nanite — Sun, 13 May 2018 09:57:30 +0000

They went on an founded a startup called Tribogenics, raised a total of about $20M over the years (among others from Nikon and Founders Fund), They worked on developing lower cost portable XRF scanners, but apparently went out of business earlier this year. From what I've heard the tech didn't work quite as well as they had hoped and their market fit wasn't that great.

New comment by Nanite in "The case for electric scooters"

Nanite — Fri, 11 May 2018 15:06:53 +0000

Unfortunately for e-scooters and other novel vehicles, the government agency in the Netherlands that handles vehicle certification (RDW) is notoriously bureaucratic. By default any new type of vehicle is forbidden to use on public roads until they certified it. On several occasions, e-scooter owners had their vehicle impounded and in one case even scrapped. Which is a real shame, as the infrastructure is perfect.

New comment by Nanite in "TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips"

Nanite — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:18:59 +0000

The main issue with using a synchrotron or Free Electron Laser EUV source might not be so much about the technology, but more about the mindset of the clients (Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundries, Intel). Up until now lithography has been something they would buy as a "box" which would be shipped to their fab, "plugged in" and commissioned.

A Free Electron Laser EUV source would be a facility on it's own, similar in size to a small powerplant built adjacent to your fab, and multiplexed to a dozen or so EUV wafer scanners, that's quite a different endeavor.

New comment by Nanite in "The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+"

Nanite — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:16:00 +0000

I have both Raspberry Pi's and a few of the cheap "clones". So some takeaways:

The good: they're definitely cheaper, I paid about a third of the raspberry Pi 2 price for a comparable Orange Pi. Other models seem to have similar aggressive pricing.

The bad: Armbian distros are a mixed bag, I had the impression some of them were put together by developers who didn't even have the particular board on hand. I spent a good three hours just getting WiFi to work (not being familiar with linux didn't help either though) , while putting up with an invisible cursor editing config files. Setting up a raspberry pi zero W in comparison was 5 minutes. Also I found out later that the pin header was 180 degrees rotated compared to the Raspberry, which made it not compatible with standard hats.

In retrospect I did learn a lot, and the Orange Pi has been running without issue for 2 years now. But Raspberry's have my definite preference.

New comment by Nanite in "Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books"

Nanite — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:37:04 +0000

Apparently a movie has been in development hell for about 10 years now, can vaguely remember Colin Farrell being attached to it.

New comment by Nanite in "AV1: A new general-purpose video codec"

Nanite — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:57:01 +0000

If you don't want your macbook to burn a hole in your lap, potentially. I'm sure most recent processors will be able to do playback, just not optimized, and at high cpu load.

New comment by Nanite in "Ratings inflation on Uber and elsewhere"

Nanite — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:00:18 +0000

Recently spent a few weeks in Nairobi, drivers accepting the ride and then spending 10+ minutes parked a few hundred meters down the road seem quite common. Could be misaligned incentives, the cancelation fee is typically half that of a ride within downtown Nairobi. Also my rating took a massive hit, dropped down from 4.8x to 4.6x! over nearly 40 rides. I did occasionally tip for great service, but also encountered some fairly obvious cases of account sharing by drivers, and downright dangerous driving.

New comment by Nanite in "Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?"

Nanite — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:17:15 +0000

That and dark silicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon

Running a modern CPU with an acceptable TDP, means only so much of the transistors can be utilized simultaneously .