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How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all
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cowthulhu•35m ago
This was a lot lower-tech than I was expecting. Very cool!
londons_explore•29m ago
So every LED die is manually aligned?

Surely 10 years on that isn't true anymore??

NikolaNovak•28m ago
1. Fascinating overall

2. "they can align over 80 per minute or about 40,000 per day." - terrifying, as I assume this is a metric workers are held against :O

80 per minute is less than a second for what sounds like several movements - move the die over, align, push down, move it out. While your eye is stuck to the microscope.

throwup238•4m ago
For context this is a 12 year old article about an outdated factory. The humans are working as glorified pick and place machines doing very repetitive motions, not manually aligning each die through a microscope. This only works because the tolerances on the placement between the die and anode/cathode are huge and the surface tension of the adhesive does most of the work.
jrmg•3m ago
Man, I miss photo articles like this that I can read at my leisure, without sound. Nowadays this would likely be a (probably frantic) video.

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://internetarchive.ch/
148•hggh•2h ago•18 comments

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
1221•anonymousiam•19h ago•439 comments

How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all
31•smig0•2d ago•5 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
257•pretext•9h ago•147 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
449•_alternator_•11h ago•301 comments

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
63•rbanffy•5h ago•20 comments

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
81•rawgabbit•2d ago•44 comments

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
378•atgctg•1d ago•100 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
231•ingve•2d ago•149 comments

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

https://flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++
38•d_tr•2d ago•25 comments

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org/
39•signa11•5h ago•9 comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
732•defrost•1d ago•143 comments

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

https://www.kutilek.de/selectric/
28•tangus•2d ago•0 comments

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20...
108•Tomte•2d ago•23 comments

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

https://fractalbits.com/blog/remove-fsync/
14•zzsheng•2d ago•4 comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

https://www.wiisfi.com/
292•homebrewer•2d ago•76 comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
364•speckx•20h ago•144 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
373•willmeyers•22h ago•114 comments

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fanduel-coinbase.html
240•christhecaribou•1d ago•167 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
468•ColinWright•1d ago•165 comments

The React2Shell Story

https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/
176•mufeedvh•21h ago•22 comments

Teaching Claude Why

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why
209•pretext•20h ago•96 comments

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
197•MrBruh•18h ago•120 comments

Read Programming as Theory Building

https://codeutopia.net/blog/2026/05/09/you-should-read-programming-as-theory-building/
10•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/
101•mad•22h ago•27 comments

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/
234•xngbuilds•23h ago•92 comments

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-p...
88•geox•2d ago•27 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

https://www.war.gov/UFO/
316•david-gpu•1d ago•467 comments

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/
54•wrxd•3h ago•53 comments

Roadside Attraction

https://theoffingmag.com/essay/roadside-attraction/
30•aways•18h ago•4 comments