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Everything you need to know about hard drive vibration (2016)

https://www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/
12•asdefghyk•4d ago

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asdefghyk•4d ago
Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) are one of the most impressive and important electromechanical devices ever created. The mechanics of HDD vibration is an obscure subject, and as a result, there is an aura of mystery surrounding vibration ...
nefarious_ends•1h ago
I recall a video of a guy temporarily reducing hard drive performance by shouting at it

edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

amelius•59m ago
next try shouting at a wafer stepper
jmclnx•37m ago
I could not get to the article, so from the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250613075332/https://www.ept.c...

Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
607•Larrikin•5h ago•105 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
285•lebovic•4h ago•106 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
833•mrdosija•13h ago•682 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
96•amichail•4h ago•53 comments

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
156•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•95 comments

Claude Opus 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
697•adocomplete•5h ago•314 comments

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
144•michalpleban•6h ago•59 comments

Neopets.com changed my life (2019)

https://annastreetman.com/2019/05/19/how-neopets-com-changed-my-life/
40•bariumbitmap•5d ago•18 comments

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove
128•zdw•5d ago•60 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

https://news.ysimulator.run/news
122•johnsillings•6h ago•67 comments

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension
72•sawyerjhood•5h ago•29 comments

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html
78•nonprofiteer•18h ago•79 comments

Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle
32•kbyatnal•3d ago•10 comments

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire...
228•speckx•4h ago•140 comments

Bytes before FLOPS: your algorithm is (mostly) fine, your data isn't

https://www.bitsdraumar.is/bytes-before-flops/
33•bofersen•1d ago•7 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
207•markdog12•11h ago•77 comments

Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0312/html
5•PaulHoule•5d ago•0 comments

Everything you need to know about hard drive vibration (2016)

https://www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/
12•asdefghyk•4d ago•4 comments

TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped

https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt
155•speckx•5h ago•60 comments

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win
122•signa11•4d ago•49 comments

Corvus Robotics (YC S18): Hiring Head of Mfg/Ops, Next Door to YC Mountain View

1•robot_jackie•7h ago

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/you-can-see-a-working-quantum-computer-in-ibms-london-office...
27•thinkingemote•2d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Supabase-Test – Fast Isolated Postgres DBs for Testing Supabase RLS

https://www.npmjs.com/package/supabase-test
26•pyramation•4d ago•9 comments

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0
109•srameshc•5h ago•76 comments

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/
92•TangerineDream•3d ago•62 comments

Launch HN: Karumi (YC F25) – Personalized, agentic product demos

http://karumi.ai/
21•tonilopezmr•5h ago•10 comments

The history of Indian science fiction

https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction
77•adityaathalye•2d ago•6 comments

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
34•jmsflknr•5h ago•40 comments

Fifty Shades of OOP

https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/
36•todsacerdoti•14h ago•5 comments

NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html
294•upofadown•12h ago•162 comments