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The Opt-Out Cap

https://www.macpierce.com/blog/2019/11/4/the-opt-out-cap-assembly
1•hentrep•52s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where Are We Headed?

1•findingMeaning•2m ago•0 comments

Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoNewWithExpression
1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

The Death of the Student Essay–and the Future of Cognition

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand
1•keyshapegeo99•6m ago•0 comments

Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won't catch on)

https://blog.viraptor.info/post/supply-chain-security-for-the-0001-and-why-it-wont-catch-on
1•Bogdanp•7m ago•0 comments

The Case Against Anthropomorphic AI

https://blog.burkert.me/posts/llm_deanthropomorphization/
1•curioussquirrel•8m ago•0 comments

A early history of algebraic data types

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history/
1•fanf2•10m ago•0 comments

Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're watching"

https://streamable.com/2xtyyd
4•CharlesW•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CLI tool to query software semantic versions data

https://github.com/zak905/semver-query
1•zak905•14m ago•0 comments

The Alberta plan for AI research [pdf]

http://www.incompleteideas.net/Talks/AlbertaPlan.pdf
1•andsoitis•17m ago•0 comments

AI vibe coding tools may be going from boom to bust

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-vibe-coding-tools-traffic-plunge-summer-arr-hype-2025-9
2•indigodaddy•18m ago•0 comments

Kooder: Autonomous AI agents that build, test, and deploy complete web apps

https://kooder.dev
2•ahmedatef61•18m ago•1 comments

Russia outlines EUV litho chipmaking tool roadmap through 2037

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/russia-outlines-euv-litho-chipmaking-to...
2•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

The big world hypothesis and its ramifications for AI

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Sv7DazuCn8
1•andsoitis•24m ago•0 comments

NFL and UFC athletes try 'game-changing' psychedelic to treat brain injury

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-12/nfl-ufc-athletes-try-psychedlic-ibogaine-to-t...
3•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Swiss voters back e-ID legislation

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/20250928/e-id-act.html
5•Davidbrcz•27m ago•0 comments

Jensen Huang says China is 'nanoseconds behind' the US in chipmaking

https://www.tomshardware.com/jensen-huang-says-china-is-nanoseconds-behind-in-chips
3•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

AI bubble vs. what burst the dot com bubble

https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/ai-dot-com-bubble-parallels-history-explained-companies-revenue-in...
2•jameslk•31m ago•0 comments

Linus Learns Analog Circuits

https://github.com/torvalds/GuitarPedal
3•GaggiX•32m ago•0 comments

Trying to Understand DeepMind's AlphaGenome Breakthrough

https://www.tobiokewole.com/writing/alpha-genome
1•flyingsky•33m ago•0 comments

A Map of Reddit

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/
1•CharlesW•34m ago•0 comments

Pushing Dial-Up Modems Further Than We Ever Thought Possible [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ259Jx8MQY
1•CharlesW•36m ago•0 comments

Welcome to My Skin

https://huioy.neocities.org/inclass/friday/week2/
1•gregsadetsky•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Db column naming: snake_case vs. CamelCase, what's the best convention?

1•jerawaj740•40m ago•1 comments

Down and Out on the Crypto Frontier

https://prospect.org/power/2025-09-22-down-and-out-on-the-crypto-frontier/
1•herbertl•40m ago•0 comments

Binwheels-Neovim: Easy cross-platform Neovim installation with uv or pipx

https://onebadbit.com/posts/2025/09/releasing-binwheels-neovim/
2•wilkystyle•44m ago•1 comments

C-sigma: Easy-to-use Sigma proofs in C using libsodium

https://github.com/jedisct1/c-sigma
3•linkdd•45m ago•0 comments

The Bitter Lesson

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
2•andsoitis•45m ago•1 comments

China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-america-is-run-by-lawyers/
84•m-hodges•46m ago•39 comments

The winter solstice: the most human of days

https://sgtscholar.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/the-winter-solstice-the-most-human-of-days/
1•susam•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

"Every Hard Drive I've Owned Has Been Larger Than All My Previous Ones Combined"

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Sep/every-hard-drive-ive-owned-has-been-larger-than-all-my-previous-ones-combined/
3•BeetleB•1h ago

Comments

leakycap•58m ago
In my case, my spinning disks expanded approximately 4x each time I upgraded:

1.2 GB Hard Drive in a Performa from Sears

4 GB HD in a self-build AMD K2 tower

20 GB HD in a Dell laptop

80 GB HD in a PowerBook G4

that I upgraded to an SSD

For SSDs, the journey was not linear and my drive capacity did not expand every time:

256 GB SSD in the first retina MBP

512 GB SSD in 11" MBA

256 GB SSD in a 12" MacBook

1 TB SSD in a MacBook Pro

Even with the last 1 TB SSD upgrade, it doesn't add up to all the drives before (~1.13 TB)

BeetleB•56m ago
Heh. I must confess that one of the reasons I don't buy SSDs is it's a lot more expensive to maintain this invariant!
leakycap•53m ago
I still have no SSDs in servers for this reason, although the time has arrived.

Out of all the computers I've owned, the 1TB model has been the most enjoyable because I've been able to keep everything I want in one place. I think storage space is important to upgrade next time I buy, as well.