Reading up on Raspberry Pi

Hacker News users roast CrankGPT's scroll-animation-heavy landing page while confirming its hand-crank can power LLM inference on a Pi 5.

Hacker News commenters attribute the decline of computing fun to corporatization and age, but suggest tinkering with microcontrollers, Linux, and retro hardware to reignite joy.

A call to reclaim the web through self-hosting with simple tools like Markdown and Raspberry Pi, but critics note the author's use of GitHub Pages undermines the message.

A parent built a floppy-disk-based physical remote for kids to independently select and play one video at a time, avoiding auto-play and touchscreen complexity.

AI datacenter buildouts have caused a severe RAM shortage, with DDR5 prices tripling, forcing companies to raise prices or halt consumer product lines.