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Ask HN: What happened to the open hardware movement?

goy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:52:28 +0000

Around the 2010s there was a surge in projects that aimed to publish open (and often made for being easily manufactured by hobbyists) hadware designs. There were project in virtually every domain (cars, lab hardware, satellites, etc). We had amazing projects like OpenPCR, OSE, etc. The movement did not exactly disappear, but a look through most of the project of that time show most of time slowly declining, with still alive (in name at least) but getting minimal amount and not making much progress. I expected much more given the amount of enthusiasm back then. Can anyone explain to me why the movement underdelivered so much ? And I'm currently seeing a spike of open hardware projects these days: do you belive we are seeing a comeback ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951877

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Tell HN: Bye

goy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:06:26 +0000

I was in the comment section of https://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html and I've never seen it so bad. Am I just noticing it now or the negativity just surged with the arrival of the new American administration?

Anyway. The journey was fun. I'm off, goodbye.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681177

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New comment by goy in "It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor"

goy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:55:20 +0000

First, I'm aware of the origin of the term; but "guy" was taken so I made do. Second, you don't care, but ... I'm afraid to break the news to you but there are billions of other people on the planet today, including me. I care.

Personally, I don't like the term from my language not only because of the possible reception but also it doesn't feel right to use it.

New comment by goy in "The origin of the cargo cult metaphor"

goy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:48:54 +0000

Never did. As I said, I only recently became aware of the fact myself. I just say that it won't give me a good first impression of the people calling me that if I'm aware of the meaning. And by the way, your first contact with the term could come with our local brew of (supremac|national|fasc|rac)ists, who are quite fond of it and afterwards you will get off thinking everyone using the term has a beef with you (again I'm assuming, never discussed it with anyone concerned, you could say I'm imagining it).

New comment by goy in "The origin of the cargo cult metaphor"

goy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:13:34 +0000

I understand that all the controversies of the past years put you on the defensive (e.g. the whole thing with Github repo default branches being renamed from "master" to "main", etc), but I think that this is the kind of issue we should try to find a balance on, instead of just throwing out the baby with the bath water.

My native language is Ewe. The words we usually use for caucasian people is "yo vo".It's an evolution of an archaic pronunciation used today by only a few, "ye vu", and it was brought to my attention recently that it means "cunning dog".Ye=cunning, Vu=dog.

Explanation: we kinda didn't start on a good footing with the Germans back in the day ... So today most people will call every white person "cunning dog" without even knowing or meaning harm because the dialect has evolved. On one hand, for most people, it's just a random word with no insulting connotation; you try to make them switch to some another term, you're crazy dumb woke etc. On the other hand, I know I would take offense in being called that even if I'm told the word's lost the original meaning a long time ago.

Personally I don't know where the middle ground should be. But some "retroactive policing of language" is definitely needed. It may seem mundane to you, but sometimes these kind of things can be unsavory to other people. With globalization, it's not you and your pals anymore ...

New comment by goy in "It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor"

goy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:43:08 +0000

I absolutely loved it. Keep up the good work! Well researched, thoughtful and balanced. What more to ask for ?

Maneki Neko (2011)

goy — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327988

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New comment by goy in "Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring"

goy — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 23:21:45 +0000

Very interesting. Thanks for the reply.

New comment by goy in "Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring"

goy — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:38:52 +0000

I'd like to know more about the education & career path that lead you there ...

New comment by goy in "ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically"

goy — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:49:33 +0000

I think having Haskell bindings to it will be quite valuable .For implementation of core structures, though, it's better to stick to C++ to max out on performance and have a finer control on resource usage. Haskell isn't particularly good at that.

EDIT: there's one at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/HROOT

New comment by goy in "Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)"

goy — Thu, 23 May 2024 03:29:19 +0000

I decided to switch to Emacs reading this too. I was a fervent of the Vim church, but now I see the light.

New comment by goy in "Jim Simons has died"

goy — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:27:56 +0000

One of the greatest. RIP

New comment by goy in "Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?"

goy — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:39:44 +0000

Very thoughtful. Thanks.

New comment by goy in "Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems"

goy — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:11:20 +0000

Another one is HalVM [0], for Haskell. Unfortunately it's not maintained anymore.

[0] https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM

How to make your own computer chips

goy — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brickstackr.com/posts/how-to-make-a-computer-chip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265945

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New comment by goy in "Reimplementing git clone in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)"

goy — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:23:56 +0000

(2013)

New comment by goy in "Libre Silicon – Free semiconductors for everyone"

goy — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 02:16:03 +0000

There seems to be a bit of activity at https://gitlab.libresilicon.com/explore/projects.

New comment by goy in "Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?"

goy — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:30:58 +0000

I'd like to read the article. What are the required maths ?

New comment by goy in "Show HN: A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites"

goy — Fri, 05 May 2023 10:27:32 +0000

What do you think about a feature that allows users to follow each other ? The websites followed by one user can be automatically included in the search results of his followers. It will enable people to include in their networks the websites followed, for example, by authorities in their domain, members of their communities, etc

New comment by goy in "Fibonacci Hashing: An optimization that the world forgot (2018)"

goy — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:06:46 +0000

Can you share a link?