why go the hassle of taking the mainboard out, assuming you are using it as a server kindof config

You can put it in a custom case. Releasing the space constraints enforced by a laptop design means you can easily have a better cooling arrangement so experience less thermal throttling if you ask it to perform longer compute-heavy tasks.

If you are building custom cases for laptop boards, just buy an old tiny PC at that point. They are like $50-100 on eBay if you don't need killer specs. Unless you're just doing it for the love of the game or happen to have a lot of laptop boards sitting around you can sell, it's not worth it.

If you already have a laptop with a board you can extract, and a 3D printer you can make a custom case with for a couple of quid, you'd rather reuse parts of the old laptop than let it go to waste, and you'd enjoy the whole project, why instead spend $50-100 and have to deal with the [censored]s on eBay?

> Unless you're just doing it for the love of the game

Isn't that way a lot of people do the home-lab thing and related projects what would need the Pi these ideas are talking about replacing? It is why I do it [or used to be before working in tech for decades killed a lot of the enjoyment I had for playing with tech].

> or happen to have a lot of laptop boards sitting around you can sell

You are the first in this thread to bring up what any of this is worth on a larger scale, selling the results. Everyone else is talking about putting together one simple computer or jumped-up microcontroller for a task of their own, and maybe more later for other projects. Some of us find this sort of thing fun, and in the shit world we are all living in right now having a bit of fun and achieving something [sort of] practical out of it, can be priceless.

Well, this is about replacing a Pi, so I guess people want a raw board. Indeed, if you just want to run a pi-hole, take any old laptop and just wedge it someplace...

I felt the same, so I did a bit of digging and you're right. Stories with "Jane Street" in the title or URL, via HN search:

  Year        Submitted   100+ points
  2014-2020   18-33/yr    2-7/yr
  2021        14          0
  2022        25          4
  2023        33          7
  2024        41          1
  2025        61          5
  2026        93          16   

Also notable: 3 of the 16 were this week.

Looks like two things:

1. them publishing a lot more programmer-facing material

2. more news coverage (SEBI ban, Terra suit, ...)

Don't know if it's a deliberate marketing push though, tbh.

For anyone wondering if Jane Street has been showing up a bit too much lately - I did a bit of digging and you're right. Stories with "Jane Street" in the title or URL:

  Year        Submitted   100+ points
  2014-2020   18-33/yr    2-7/yr
  2021        14          0
  2022        25          4
  2023        33          7
  2024        41          1
  2025        61          5
  2026        93          16   

Also notable: 3 of the 16 were this week.

Looks like two things:

1. them publishing a lot more programmer-facing material

2. more news coverage (SEBI ban, Terra suit, ...)

Don't know if it's a deliberate marketing push though, tbh.

While in general I agree with most of what's said, some of these feel like "Horseless Carriages".

Like for example

>It doesn't know how your company counts revenue, or which of several similar-looking tables is the real one (it is revenue_cpx_new_revised_v2_use_this_one )

This assumption mostly only holds for non-clean data ( which is mostly a result of humans being lazy and backlog being clogged up ). As AI starts building more of the pipelines upstream - this becomes a non-issue.

Even for existing pipelines, I'd expect fixes to move upstream: when an agent encounters ambiguity at query time, the useful output isn't an edit of the context,but a PR that fixes it.

You can't adequately clean some data though. That your psp had a hickup and only processed 50% of orders on Christmas Eve can't be modeled away. That's where you'd need a context layer to explain why it happened

Yeah fair point tbh. But even that doesn't require an human in the loop no ?

I guess as long as it gets into the context layer it's all good! I'm excited, but skeptical, for those company OS agents that will be able to figure this out

We're all figuring out as we go i guess :)

super cool ! wished there were more haha

Not what i expected, but good read nonetheless

I'd like to add a third reason: SEO hacking

Very cool work ! I was unreasonably disappointed by the element at the top ( header ) not being interactive thgh :_

good thread to lookup : https://x.com/levelsio/status/2088235859887726696

The revolution against shitty locked down software has begun and I LOVE IT

Has it? Feels like we're just getting more of it all the time.

"Hold on babe, the christmas lights have to finish installing a firmware update", is a real sentence that actual people are saying in 2026.

I think there are two aspects: 1. like no I don't want my microwave sending random blips of location data to a server and no I don't want hyper-personalised ads on my coffe machine 2. I want my machine to do what I want and not be limited by random limitations set in the software, either intentionally or via incompetancy.

A blog post and the commiseration of HN randos does not a revolution make.

> This is our world now... The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud

https://phrack.org/issues/7/hackers-manifesto