
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
Veritasium
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Semiconductors & chip manufacturing is a topic archive of videos linked in Hacker News comments. This snapshot contains 47 videos and 290 labeled comments across 2010–2026. That is an average of 6.2 linked comments per video. The summed 155 recommender entries are counted per video, so one HN user can appear in more than one topic video.
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Veritasium

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Asianometry

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Chisel

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Andor Gafotas

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Asianometry

Asianometry

Asianometry
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Amazon Web Services

Branch Education

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Ben Eater

media.ccc.de
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Jeri Ellsworth

Asianometry

Asianometry

Tenstorrent

Jeri Ellsworth

RC286

Tenstorrent

Robert Baruch

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