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Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/jurassic-park-tablet-device-on-nedrys-desk.169883/

31•exvi•2h ago

Comments

Jare•1h ago

Normally you don't want to read the comments, but if you're curious about the topic please make an exception here.

shlip•1h ago

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy).

> The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

cbdevidal•30m ago

It’s mind-blowing to me that the actual guy who designed it chimed in. Assuming it’s not a fake comment, what are the odds!?

eterm•22m ago

Much greater than now, given the open discoverability of the original post here, versus the walled-off content we have today, locked away in discord servers and the like.

Furthermore, the act of replying to that post will have bumped it right back to the top for everyone to see.

dbushell•43m ago

Jurassic Park III (2001) has a 3D printer that’s central to a plot line. I know they have a long history but I remember thinking that was more sci-fi than the dinosaurs.

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality

https://netzbremse.de/en/

234•tietjens•3h ago•116 comments

This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/

106•timr•2h ago•25 comments

Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/jurassic-park-tablet-device-on-nedrys-desk.169883/

32•exvi•2h ago•5 comments

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp

627•joooscha•16h ago•377 comments

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/

31•dlt•3h ago•0 comments

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/

249•_____k•5d ago•174 comments

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-poll...

415•hhs•11h ago•356 comments

A Lament for Aperture

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

100•firloop•4d ago•23 comments

BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)

https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

11•eswat•2d ago•0 comments

David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05047

76•transpute•9h ago•5 comments

Two Weeks Until Tapeout

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/

127•client4•10h ago•6 comments

I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

https://modulovalue.com/blog/syscall-overhead-tar-gz-io-performance/

35•modulovalue•4d ago•13 comments

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next

179•topherhaddad•15h ago•59 comments

Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators

https://github.com/divyaprakash0426/autoshorts

26•divyaprakash•4h ago•12 comments

Putting Rocks on the Moon

https://ahwoo.com/posts/019bd882-d104-7347-be7b-8e0a5ce13cb5

7•epaga•4d ago•0 comments

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375

427•AffableSpatula•21h ago•291 comments

Intrinsically stretchable 2D MoS2 transistors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68504-2

9•bookofjoe•4d ago•0 comments

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

https://eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable/

151•aa_is_op•11h ago•59 comments

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/

178•verginer•17h ago•81 comments

Typography on Pencils (2023)

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-pencils-1-5

79•NaOH•4d ago•6 comments

Accept_language 2.2 – RFC 7231/4647 compliant Accept-Language parsing for Ruby

https://github.com/cyril/accept_language.rb

5•cyrilllllll•2h ago•0 comments

Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/01/hands-on-with-two-apple-network-server.html

5•todsacerdoti•3h ago•0 comments

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-updat...

171•speckx•8h ago•110 comments

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

https://raymondtana.github.io/math/programming/2026/01/23/zig-alignment-and-sizing.html

119•raymondtana•19h ago•25 comments

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

178•goopthink•19h ago•115 comments

Maze Algorithms (2017)

http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/

140•surprisetalk•1d ago•31 comments

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971

176•tosh•8h ago•42 comments

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

https://blog.tansu.io/articles/broker-aws-free-tier

93•rmoff•5d ago•20 comments

Understanding Rust Closures

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/rust-closures/

59•avandecreme•17h ago•28 comments

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

https://sharedclaude.com/

67•reasonableklout•1d ago•25 comments