HN treats it as a favorite example of silly but educational computer science, recommended often when threads touch odd storage hacks.
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The best hardware (other) videos, according to Hacker News
20 videos about hardware (other) that Hacker News commenters keep pointing each other to, ranked by how many separate months they were recommended. Part of Hardware & Electronics.
Commenters recommend it as a clear, well-animated explanation of memory, especially for visual learners.
HN fans use it as the gateway to the Techmoan channel and praise it as one of the most fascinating obscure audio formats.
It is the go-to viral demo whenever HN discusses vibration, acoustic attacks, or sound affecting hard drives.
HN passed it around in 2009 as a funny, impressive demo of SSD speed despite its marketing origin.
HN points to it whenever hard drive destruction or fast physical data wiping comes up, as an empirical test of what actually works.
Pointed to as a look at Hetzner's unusual semi-custom server hardware and cooling.
Remembered fondly as a fun, memorable animated explanation of how perpendicular disk storage works.
HN commenters link it when webcam quality comes up, as a quick rundown of why laptop webcams lag behind phones.
HN cites it as the example of Google's open-sourced linear book scanner design when discussing book digitization.
Cited as the memorable case for moving to SSDs and as an example of how swearing can make a talk stick.
HN brings it up in book-digitization threads as an elegant, careful scanner design.
HN refers to it as an honest, candid account of the common story of losing precious data to storage failure.
HN mostly cites it in critiques of Apple's hardware choices and base-model storage and memory, as an example of a design flaw.
HN cites it as the go-to video on the little-known MD Data format, mostly in MiniDisc and obsolete-media threads.
HN links it whenever data-on-video-tape or YouTube-as-storage schemes come up, as the real precedent for storing digital data on VHS.
Linked as an example of industrial shredding for secure bulk drive destruction.
HN commenters link it as the making-of companion to IBM's atom stop-motion film.
Cited as an example of data hoarders testing Google's unlimited storage and of Google rate limiting heavy use.
HN commenters cite it as the famous demonstration of what happens to CPUs without thermal protection, especially the Athlon burning out.
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