I know Hackaday is trying some new things recently, and I feel that the site is just going downhill. I’ve been coming here for a long time because I’m interested in the full write ups for the hacks featured here on the site. These posts about “Mr. Modchip”, the Ironkey (it isn’t home brew and the post isn’t even about hacking it), and the MSI Wind hitting the FCC aren’t hacks. If I want to see news like that I’ll go over to Engadget.

Posted at 11:02 pm on Jun 26th, 2008 by Narksos

thats right if you don’t have a good hack don’t write it

Posted at 11:17 pm on Jun 26th, 2008 by cube

http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/

If you don’t like the extra content then just go there instead. Hack-a-Day hasn’t gone downhill, still the same daily hack, they’ve just added *additional* content. They haven’t replaced hacks with news, reposts, etc as some people think.

Posted at 12:07 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by userjjb

>Hack-a-Day hasn’t gone downhill

others have different opinions. i say (and have been saying) this “*additional* content” sucks.

Posted at 12:32 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by miked

well, I send it this after the boring news article about Card and Pin fraud.
Its a picture set of a hacked together setup to steal peoples pin and magstripe data:
http://halbot.haluze.sk/?id=4247

guess the engadget tyle news have priority over hacks like this one

Posted at 2:41 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by rasz

I’ve been coming here for a long time, and I think it’s almost time to leave. Sure, there’s still “daily” hacks, but the extra crap is just that, crap. It makes the site fluffed up and extraneous.

Posted at 2:55 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by klintor

Meh. This thing is the real shit (although about 900 USD)- its a ultramoble, 1.1kg touchscreen notebook pc!

pay another 350USD, and you get an extended battery that
lasts 10 hours. HS. Check this sucker out, I tried it today in Hokkaido, it’s amazing.

http://google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjp.kohjinsha.com%2Fmodels%2Fsx%2Findex.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en

Posted at 9:34 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by Namban

I don’t really see how this can be MSI’s answer since MSI owns Asus.

Posted at 9:56 am on Jun 27th, 2008 by belthesar

LOL @ the whiners – if you don’t like reading it, don’t read it.

Posted at 12:46 pm on Jun 27th, 2008 by guy

@#8: Guh? I somehow doubt MSI owns Asus, not only based on the fact that I have never even heard it suggested (nor could I even find a wisp of a rumor of such), but also (from WP):

MSI Revenue: NT$74.24 billion (2005)
Asus Revenue: NT$541.8 Billion (2006)

I always thought MSI was small-time compared to Asus, and now I can see that I was right.

@7: That’s great and all, but USD 400-500 (Wind, EEE PC) != USD 900+ (that Japanese thing I never heard of). If I’m willing to spend that kind of scratch, my market choices open up substantially.

Posted at 1:52 pm on Jun 27th, 2008 by James

eee, why did you blow the wind up my drawers? now wii is cold.

“msi breaks wind” read all about it. So as soon as it is released we can look forward to all of the toilet humor.

C’mon guys, l would almost rather have an epod or an ipod or an X in the name than all these wheezy, grunty, squealing, genital/fart joke based names.

@ offtopic. l think the “non-hacks” deserve a separate column or a different color. l don’t mind non-hacks as this is pretty much the only site l visit for this kinda stuff, but it is interfering with my head-based filter when l miss a day or 2 l am going back several pages to see the real hacks, it isn’t exactly fun.

Posted at 12:58 am on Jun 30th, 2008 by Miles

My girlfriend bought a wind today, it is already out here in germany, cant wait to play with it!!!

thex

Posted at 4:36 am on Jul 3rd, 2008 by thex