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Observations from people watching

https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching
193•jger15•8h ago•99 comments

Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators

https://about.fandom.com/news/fandom-sells-giant-bomb-to-independent-creators
100•minimaxir•6h ago•24 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise
131•guiambros•9h ago•36 comments

Fan Service

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service
39•todsacerdoti•2h ago•4 comments

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1300.1.pdf
351•dave1629•16h ago•687 comments

Lazarus Release 4.0

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0
36•proxysna•3d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

https://github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab
88•malux85•9h ago•26 comments

For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/commodore.commodore64.1982.102646264.pdf
166•indigodaddy•12h ago•99 comments

A critical look at MCP

https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp
411•ablekh•16h ago•233 comments

When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations

http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1350
18•Rochus•2d ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

http://www.righto.com/2025/05/386-prefetch-circuitry-reverse-engineered.html
138•todsacerdoti•14h ago•42 comments

Dotless Domains

https://lab.avl.la/dotless/
123•wibbily•5h ago•78 comments

Strain gauge made out of PCB

https://github.com/vapetrov/PCB_strain_gauge
43•dr_coffee•3d ago•9 comments

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

https://retool.com/visual-basic
51•ibobev•7h ago•34 comments

Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-wearable-heart-technology.html
20•PaulHoule•3d ago•7 comments

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
76•colinbartlett•9h ago•50 comments

The State of SSL Stacks

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks
55•zdw•4d ago•8 comments

NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation

https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/
11•jaypatelani•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128
46•the_othernet•9h ago•25 comments

Adaptive Hashing

https://quotenil.com/adaptive-hashing.html
27•varjag•2d ago•5 comments

Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions

https://embracergamesarchive.com/
161•draugadrotten•19h ago•74 comments

Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs

https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/22/arduino-is-at-work-to-make-bio-based-pcbs/
46•PaulHoule•2d ago•6 comments

Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux

https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
104•smartmic•15h ago•34 comments

Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-eagle-hunters-of-kyrgyzstan-world-nomad-games/
33•gmays•4d ago•11 comments

Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/may/documents/20250510-collegio-cardinalizio.html
211•90s_dev•11h ago•142 comments

How much information is in DNA?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/dna
63•crescit_eundo•2d ago•55 comments

Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/07/26/not-a-3-year-old-chimney-sweep/
116•nixass•23h ago•65 comments

Intel: Winning and Losing

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/intel-winning-and-losing
89•rbanffy•19h ago•73 comments

React Three Ecosystem

https://www.react-three.org/
111•bpierre•17h ago•52 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs
1•adchurch•13h ago
Open in hackernews

Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators

https://about.fandom.com/news/fandom-sells-giant-bomb-to-independent-creators
100•minimaxir•6h ago

Comments

Trasmatta•5h ago
Great news. Giant Bomb is in some ways one of the few remaining relics of the older / weirder internet. I thought it was done for after the past week.
kevingadd•5h ago
For those unfamiliar, Giant Bomb was one of the first video games press outlets to focus on premium video content. They offered monthly/yearly paid subscriptions for unlimited streaming/downloads: a mix of livestreams, review/criticism content, and Just Goofing Around pre-recorded content. They typically released a few hours worth of content a week at their peak, if I remember right, and the cost was something like $30-50 a year. This was before long form video was a big thing on YouTube; arguably sites like Giant Bomb were pioneers that showed a path forward (at least temporarily) for lots of creatives.

Their podcast has been running weekly for the entire time the site has operated alongside (intermittently) other podcasts, so they're approaching 890 episodes. Each episode was typically a few hours long as well.

When they were doing good they were a well-oiled content machine operating on a small budget with a small team. A lot of the stuff they put out was really special or unique in games press at the time - for example, one of their staff went to North Korea during a vacation so during one of their weekly live streams they devoted a time slot to him showing his photos and talking about his experiences there.

Trasmatta•4h ago
The history of the site is wild, too. From the origin in the wake of Jeff Gerstmann being fired from GameSpot, the subsequent exodus from that site, to the death of Ryan Davis, to being bought by CBS Interactive and brought right back under the fold next to GameSpot, to being acquired by multiple other companies, to Jeff Gerstmann getting fired AGAIN, and now this. And all the fun times and weirdness and insanity along the way.

And a funny bit of trivia: likely the most widespread impact the site has had outside of gaming is that it was the origin of the "blinking white guy" meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb6BsegPewk

bigstrat2003•3h ago
> to Jeff Gerstmann getting fired AGAIN

Hold up what? I didn't know that. It seems insane to fire the man from the organization he co-founded.

cube00•3h ago
Once the VCs get involved you will soon find the company you founded is no longer the company you work at.
bigstrat2003•1h ago
Yeah I suppose. It just is shocking to me, because for me Giant Bomb was Jeff (and Ryan, may he rest in peace). Hard to fathom the site without him, but so it goes I guess.
RevEng•2h ago
It happens. Our CTO "resigned" about 6 years after we started our VC funded startup. He sold his shares to the rest of the investors. It wasn't his choice to leave.
IG_Semmelweiss•3h ago
Is it right to say that giant bomb is in social.media terms was equivalent of myspace, vimeo is something like a far smaller linkedin, twitch is the equivalent of twitter, and that YouTube is Facebook?
duskwuff•2h ago
Not really. Giant Bomb is a content creator, not a social media network. They have some social features on their site, but it's all centered around GB and the content they produce.

As an aside, Vimeo isn't a meaningfully social site anymore. They pivoted to commercial video hosting long ago - there's still some commenting features on videos but it's not a significant part of what they do.

nubinetwork•3h ago
Glad to hear, fandom is a horrible website to use
RistrettoMike•3h ago
YOOOOO! Still a threat!
randall•3h ago
JEFF BAKALAR?!?!? THE 404 JEFF BAKALAR!!?!?!?!?

Insane. How times have changed.

c-hendricks•2h ago
His arc at Giant Bomb is pretty great. From guest to co-owner.
randall•1h ago
i worked with him at cnet all those days ago. super weird.
stevage•3h ago
Boy that was a confusing headline. I did not realise that fandom or giant bomb were proper nouns.
archagon•2h ago
I want to live in your reality.

(Edit for clarity: because the literal headline is hilarious.)

DevKoala•1h ago
Hahahaha. Upvote.

Fandom is a pit of the internet that you never want to find yourself in. Giantbomb probably should have never happened, it never hit the heights of Gamespot.

thaumasiotes•2h ago
Well, I didn't know about Giant Bomb, but the fact that the domain for the headline was fandom.com was a big clue for Fandom.
nilslindemann•2h ago
Everyone who clicked the link is not on CIA's observation list.
riffraff•6m ago
I even misread it as "sends" and thought this was a stunt of some kind
monster_truck•2h ago
Thankful it's sticking around. I've always used "talks about Giant Bomb" as a signal that someone isn't worth getting to know better.

Only 4 downvotes from those that champion an outcast bully, that's a good sign.

jpalawaga•2h ago
Whiskey Media was top tier back in the day. A group of folks producing really fun content, and having a great time doing it. The community was top notch too. I have no idea where the diaspora ended up, since the forums and wiki are comparatively dead these days.
punnerud•8m ago
In this context, the term “bomb” refers specifically to Giant Bomb, the gaming media brand that has now become independently owned and operated by its creators.