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Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-eraser
28•bookofjoe•2d ago

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bdcravens•10h ago
> The Dremel Moto-Tool, introduced in 1935, came with an array of swappable bits.

I'm kind of impressed at how those bits look pretty much identical to what you'd get today, and from the looks of it, they would fit in a modern Dremel rotary tool.

ketzo•8h ago
I had the same thought! Honestly, even the body of the device isn’t really that far off from what you would get today. Kinda awesome.
function_seven•10h ago
I dreamed of having one of these when I was in high school drafting class!

They definitely were worth it over “acoustic” erasers, but cost something like $70. The few times I got to use one spoiled me.

johnea•10h ago
They were great! Along with the drafting machine instead of T-square and triangles.

This is a reminder of so many things: Like chip and board "tape out" being done with actual tape on velum...

loeber•9h ago
I owned a little battery-powered, handheld electric eraser when I was in middle and high school. It cost maybe ten dollars, and it was so great. Amazing precision and super effective -- way better than the eraser nub at the end of a pencil. Would recommend.

Google is bringing automatic passkey upgrades to Android (APK teardown)

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-automatic-passkey-upgrades-android-apk-teardown-3555935/
1•unigiri•59s ago•0 comments

Quiz Machine – Simple and quick indie AI live quiz generator

https://www.quiz-machine.com/en
1•kurgandev•2m ago•1 comments

Unveiling the Future of Graphics: 'Zorah' UE5 Path-Tracing Demo with RTX 5090

https://www.mmfooty.com/nvidia-108gb-ue5-path-tracing-demo-zorah/
1•lamariexa•3m ago•0 comments

A conversation with Jony Ive [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9g_8r-mE
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ToolRegistry – A Python Library for Structured Tool Integration

https://github.com/Oaklight/ToolRegistry
2•Oaklight•16m ago•1 comments

After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408823/after-16-years-we-re-renewing-the-brand
6•walterbell•29m ago•0 comments

Everything You Need to Know About Sparkle's Upcoming 24GB Arc Battlemage GPU

https://old.reddit.com/r/intel_arc_graphics/comments/1kj5906/sparkle_teases_arc_battlemage_gpu_with_24gb/
1•lamariexa•29m ago•0 comments

End of History – Francis Fukuyama (1992)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
2•thunderbong•30m ago•1 comments

5 Steps to N-Body Simulation

https://alvinng4.github.io/grav_sim/5_steps_to_n_body_simulation/
1•dargscisyhp•31m ago•0 comments

Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/
3•thefilmore•40m ago•0 comments

'Just Write Great Content' Is the Worst SEO Advice You'll Hear

https://news.seoforfounders.com/p/seo-myth-busting-1-great-content-ranks-itself
3•contctlink•42m ago•2 comments

So Yeah – I hate useEffect

https://substack.com/inbox/post/163261746
1•hmontazeri•46m ago•0 comments

15 Years of Shader Minification

https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/2025/15-years-of-shader-minification/
1•laurentlb•50m ago•0 comments

Apple hits back at US judge's 'extraordinary' contempt order

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r8rg4w2v0o
4•chrisjj•52m ago•0 comments

EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs

https://github.com/em-llm/EM-LLM-model
1•jbotz•52m ago•0 comments

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Clearly Explained

1•Arindam1729•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codigo – The Programming Language Repository

https://codigolangs.com
2•adamjhf•1h ago•0 comments

A whippet waypoint / Nofl: A Precise Immix

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/05/09/a-whippet-waypoint
1•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

Mexico sues Google over changing Gulf of Mexico's name for US users

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/mexico-google-lawsuit-gulf-of-mexico
2•beardyw•1h ago•3 comments

Why should I care? or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/moral-law/
4•boris_m•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you hire outside your competencies?

1•gotaqmyfriends•1h ago•0 comments

Tesla Worker Knew His Anti-Musk Website Was a Risk. He Did It Anyway

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-worker-anti-musk-website-fired-2025-5
6•Corrado•1h ago•0 comments

AI in Policymaking, Some Thoughts

https://medium.com/@simonbachour66/big-picture-ai-pt1-policymaking-a0c1baa555ec
1•manu_nassour•1h ago•0 comments

Most visitors leave your site without ever talking to you. Fix it with this

1•itsmepeter•1h ago•1 comments

Data-hungry browsers: the choice of 90% of users worldwide?

https://surfshark.com/research/chart/data-collection-mobile-browsers
2•XzetaU8•1h ago•0 comments

Floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying heat threats

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58054-4
2•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Mill as a Direct Style Build Tool

https://mill-build.org/blog/12-direct-style-build-tool.html
1•lihaoyi•1h ago•1 comments

Frink data file for non-changing units

https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt
1•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data and Selling It to ICE

https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/
5•mdhb•1h ago•0 comments

Warning signs hinted at Spain's unprecedented power outage

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/spain-suffered-multiple-power-incidents-build-up-full-blackout-2025-05-02/
4•mpweiher•1h ago•0 comments