joe_bleau

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• Human Powered Bitcoin Mining

  by joe_bleau on 2/17/2023, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• Over the horizon radar pt II

  by joe_bleau on 12/5/2022, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Over the horizon radar pt I

  by joe_bleau on 12/5/2022, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Raspberry Pi 4 Gets 8GB RAM, Raspbian 64-Bit (Beta)

  by joe_bleau on 5/28/2020, 11:41 AM with 7 comments

• Particle Mesh IoT device pre-order

  by joe_bleau on 2/14/2018, 9:34 PM with 1 comments

• No free lunch (at Google) for thought criminals

  by joe_bleau on 1/9/2018, 11:54 PM with 13 comments

• Intel Tips Mini IoT Module

  by joe_bleau on 1/8/2015, 12:29 AM with 0 comments

• The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory

  by joe_bleau on 12/17/2014, 12:21 AM with 15 comments

• Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory

  by joe_bleau on 11/6/2014, 12:21 AM with 43 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Peroxide Peroxides

  by joe_bleau on 10/10/2014, 11:00 PM with 53 comments

• Steve Ciarcia Buys Back Circuit Cellar Ink Magazine

  by joe_bleau on 10/7/2014, 11:55 PM with 0 comments

• Steve Ciarcia Buys Back Circuit Cellar Ink Magazine

  by joe_bleau on 10/7/2014, 11:29 PM with comments

• Accidental release of 45L of polio virus solution into the environment – Belgium

  by joe_bleau on 10/4/2014, 12:13 AM with 70 comments

• Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear

  by joe_bleau on 9/22/2014, 1:35 AM with 2 comments

• Is Apple's 'Perspective' Film a Bit Too Much Like OK Go's Recent Viral Video?

  by joe_bleau on 9/11/2014, 1:06 AM with 0 comments

• Big Payoffs in HP Suit, for Lawyers

  by joe_bleau on 8/23/2014, 8:52 PM with 0 comments

• How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (2011)

  by joe_bleau on 8/10/2014, 7:49 PM with 17 comments

• Your Metal Azide Worries Are Over

  by joe_bleau on 6/21/2014, 1:00 AM with 0 comments

• Friendly, Welcoming Triazides

  by joe_bleau on 6/6/2014, 11:39 PM with 3 comments

• Building a Magnetic Tape Recorder from Scratch (1949-1952)

  by joe_bleau on 2/9/2014, 6:24 PM with 0 comments

• Qué romántico (Fake ON-semi chip with fun marking)

  by joe_bleau on 10/30/2013, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• DNSSEC patches for DJB's tinydns

  by joe_bleau on 9/20/2013, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• Sub-threshold (extremely low power) ARM chip on track at Ambiq

  by joe_bleau on 9/20/2013, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• What Does A Song That Costs $5 Sound Like?

  by joe_bleau on 9/12/2013, 1:58 AM with 48 comments

• Mercury Azides. I'll Get Right On Those For You.

  by joe_bleau on 8/28/2013, 11:24 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium

  by joe_bleau on 5/8/2013, 11:15 PM with 1 comments

• "Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault"

  by joe_bleau on 4/13/2013, 11:00 PM with 0 comments

• Things I won't work with: Chlorine Trifluoride: Some Empirical Findings

  by joe_bleau on 4/5/2013, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• Automated text/email alert when new Pope is named

  by joe_bleau on 3/13/2013, 1:08 PM with 0 comments

• PragPub March '13 is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)

  by joe_bleau on 3/6/2013, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• Warren Buffett's 2013 letter to shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway)

  by joe_bleau on 3/1/2013, 9:04 PM with 0 comments

• NXP unveils $0.39 ARM micro in 8 pin DIP package

  by joe_bleau on 11/14/2012, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug

  by joe_bleau on 11/14/2012, 12:15 AM with 30 comments

• Radio Tanzania: A Disappearing History On Tape

  by joe_bleau on 11/4/2012, 12:55 AM with 0 comments

• Camille Paglia on industrial design and how capitalism can save art

  by joe_bleau on 10/6/2012, 2:27 AM with 0 comments

• PragPub October '12 is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)

  by joe_bleau on 10/6/2012, 12:43 AM with 0 comments

• C as an intermediate language for Forth

  by joe_bleau on 9/30/2012, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Image of the Mars lander parachute, as seen from MRO

  by joe_bleau on 8/6/2012, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Study reveals Western popular music is becoming more homogenized

  by joe_bleau on 7/26/2012, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• Amateur "hackers" and DOT electronic signs in Alaska

  by joe_bleau on 7/8/2012, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• NRO gives NASA two Hubble-class space telescopes

  by joe_bleau on 6/4/2012, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Selenophenol

  by joe_bleau on 5/19/2012, 1:01 AM with 1 comments

• Chumby Industries shuts down

  by joe_bleau on 4/21/2012, 2:42 AM with 19 comments

• PragPub March '12 is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)

  by joe_bleau on 3/7/2012, 6:35 PM with 2 comments

• US Navy trains dolphins to detect mines; possibly to be used in Strait of Hormuz

  by joe_bleau on 1/14/2012, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• Spaceflight error: X-37B not spying on Tiangong-1

  by joe_bleau on 1/7/2012, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• PragPub Jan '12 is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)

  by joe_bleau on 1/4/2012, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• PragPub (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine) December issue is out

  by joe_bleau on 12/8/2011, 5:10 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

  by joe_bleau on 11/11/2011, 11:53 PM with 0 comments

• Old-(high)-school hack: TRS-80 controlled card punch

  by joe_bleau on 10/8/2011, 4:40 PM with 0 comments

• The September issue of Pragmatic Programmer Magazine is out

  by joe_bleau on 9/7/2011, 4:20 PM with 4 comments

• A peek at the home of Dieter Rams (industrial design, Braun)

  by joe_bleau on 9/4/2011, 7:41 PM with 4 comments

• PragPub August issue is out

  by joe_bleau on 8/3/2011, 2:50 PM with 1 comments

• HN bug: Why the old topics on page 2?

  by joe_bleau on 8/2/2011, 2:32 AM with 1 comments

• NASA monograph: flight simulation with analog computers

  by joe_bleau on 7/16/2011, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: programming tools for a 12 year old

  by joe_bleau on 7/14/2011, 5:01 PM with 16 comments

• PragPub July issue is out (Pragmatic Bookshelf magazine)

  by joe_bleau on 7/6/2011, 3:02 PM with 5 comments

• RIP: Tom West (Data General, "Soul of a New Machine")

  by joe_bleau on 5/24/2011, 11:31 PM with 20 comments

• Ask HN: starting iOS dev: best Mac value?

  by joe_bleau on 5/19/2011, 5:08 PM with 6 comments

• Pragmatic Bookshelf's PragPub May '11 magazine is out

  by joe_bleau on 5/4/2011, 3:04 PM with 0 comments

• Bin Laden dead?

  by joe_bleau on 5/2/2011, 2:45 AM with -1 comments

• April PragPub magazine is out

  by joe_bleau on 4/6/2011, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• Nixtamalization

  by joe_bleau on 3/3/2011, 3:55 AM with 0 comments

• March PragPub is out

  by joe_bleau on 3/2/2011, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Chlorine Azide

  by joe_bleau on 2/27/2011, 6:13 PM with 21 comments

• FCC approves GPS jamming Internet service

  by joe_bleau on 2/2/2011, 7:43 PM with 0 comments

• Wikileaks cable gets German CEO fired over Galileo comment

  by joe_bleau on 1/18/2011, 6:59 PM with 1 comments

• Small Polish company leads the world in crystalline gallium nitride quality

  by joe_bleau on 11/20/2010, 6:30 PM with 3 comments

• Things I Won't Work With: Nitrotetrazole Oxides

  by joe_bleau on 11/17/2010, 12:24 AM with 0 comments

• Geek IQ test from Infoworld

  by joe_bleau on 11/15/2010, 11:53 PM with -1 comments

• ARM shows off new high end GPU

  by joe_bleau on 11/11/2010, 12:48 AM with 0 comments

• Showing off the upcoming devices from AMD

  by joe_bleau on 11/11/2010, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• Calls for a probe on Google's ties to Obama administration

  by joe_bleau on 11/9/2010, 11:52 PM with 0 comments

• Feynmann on magnets (video)

  by joe_bleau on 11/6/2010, 2:33 PM with 0 comments

• The Autodesk File: a founder's notes on a famous startup

  by joe_bleau on 11/5/2010, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• Extreme DIY: 35mm SLR camera, built mostly from scratch

  by joe_bleau on 11/5/2010, 1:38 AM with 0 comments

• Beautiful phyiscal model of the Antikythera Mechanism

  by joe_bleau on 11/4/2010, 11:02 PM with 3 comments

• Engineers vs. Bankers

  by joe_bleau on 11/4/2010, 10:51 PM with 0 comments

• News Corp. warns Myspace

  by joe_bleau on 11/4/2010, 2:49 PM with 0 comments

• The Pragmatic Programmer's November magazine is out

  by joe_bleau on 11/3/2010, 5:00 PM with 0 comments

• Oops: unknown man's photo attached to Georgia arrest records dating back to 1983

  by joe_bleau on 11/2/2010, 11:34 PM with 0 comments

• Testing a biomedical implant to reduce severe vertigo

  by joe_bleau on 11/2/2010, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• Detecting imminent landslides with sound

  by joe_bleau on 11/2/2010, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• Study shows fat men and thin women are paid more

  by joe_bleau on 10/8/2010, 12:26 AM with 0 comments

• Washington DC online voting hack contest suspended early

  by joe_bleau on 10/5/2010, 3:57 PM with 4 comments

• WikiLeaks Julian Assange arrested in absentia in Sweden for rape and molestation

  by joe_bleau on 8/21/2010, 3:38 PM with -1 comments

• New study questions whether Lou Gehrig had ALS

  by joe_bleau on 8/17/2010, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Coming soon? Google vs. Facebook

  by joe_bleau on 7/28/2010, 11:56 AM with 0 comments

• What's really on your integrated circuit?

  by joe_bleau on 7/15/2010, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• "Shan Zhai" rising: pro teardown of a cloned/knockoff GPS

  by joe_bleau on 6/25/2010, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• Measuring single electrons with a vibrating probe

  by joe_bleau on 6/11/2010, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• The HN tax? FTC mulls taxing online news aggregators

  by joe_bleau on 6/4/2010, 11:04 PM with 27 comments

• IEEE 2010 Medal of Honor: Viterbi

  by joe_bleau on 5/30/2010, 3:00 AM with 0 comments

• Fermilab may have data to explain how matter beat antimatter

  by joe_bleau on 5/18/2010, 1:58 AM with 4 comments

• Really spiffy continuously variable *geared* transmission

  by joe_bleau on 5/14/2010, 6:01 PM with 2 comments

• Big brother wants to place black boxes in your car

  by joe_bleau on 4/30/2010, 11:13 PM with 5 comments

• It's about time: Xilinx FPGA with embedded ARM cpu

  by joe_bleau on 4/27/2010, 10:12 PM with 7 comments

• Social media themes in the latest "South Park"

  by joe_bleau on 4/8/2010, 2:29 AM with 0 comments

• A new and novel high-performance atomic resonantor/clock

  by joe_bleau on 4/1/2010, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• STMicroelectronics NV has IPAD trademarked in EU

  by joe_bleau on 1/28/2010, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• China bans individuals from registering domain names

  by joe_bleau on 12/16/2009, 3:48 PM with 85 comments

• Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain

  by joe_bleau on 11/21/2009, 9:38 PM with 1 comments

• Industrial-grown living skin for wound care

  by joe_bleau on 11/14/2009, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• Incoming NY college freshmen can't do algebra?

  by joe_bleau on 11/12/2009, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• Future Xilinx FPGAs to include ARM CPUs

  by joe_bleau on 10/23/2009, 5:34 PM with 3 comments

• Google violates Chinese author's copyright? Ah, the irony.

  by joe_bleau on 10/22/2009, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• Al Gore advised Google on search quality?

  by joe_bleau on 10/16/2009, 2:45 PM with -1 comments

• Hardcore autodidact: man teaches himself BiCMOS analog IC design

  by joe_bleau on 6/10/2009, 3:44 AM with 0 comments

• Jack Bogle's latest quest

  by joe_bleau on 4/20/2009, 11:18 PM with 0 comments