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It goes on the same list as the person who made their own video game console on breadboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279

These are the most inspiring HN posts. They’re not marketable startup ideas, but the “lone hacker” working on something huge that I wouldn’t even consider, and then getting it to work, is very impressive.

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I know there is currently in the air a zeitgeist against declaring it, but I still maintain that almost noteworthy humankind achievements happened like this, or in very small teams of highly aligned individuals.

Now of course, he is standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak, but hasn't he become very close to a giant himself now?

It is almost always true that your daily behavior speaks your deepest beliefs, and to put something like this together as quickly as the OP did...well, awesome work OP maybe now you can work on flying cars :)

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