[HN Gopher] The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law
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       The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law
        
       Author : mcharawi
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2025-03-05 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 00N8 wrote:
       | Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the
       | fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin
       | blasts, the same math describes the evolution of both types of
       | explosions."
       | 
       | Maybe they meant 10^45 times as much energy?
        
         | hnuser123456 wrote:
         | Was probably written in one system, formatted with the 45 as
         | superscript, then copied into a CMS that converted the
         | superscript back to regular script. Lots of popsci type
         | publications end up having this happen.
        
           | skmoore wrote:
           | Yeah. It's fixed now.
        
             | hnuser123456 wrote:
             | Thank you! It was an excellent read. Had me from start to
             | end.
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | Can we repurpose the ASML machine as fusion drive? Asking for a
       | friend.
       | 
       | Especially when lithography in near future will move from EUV to
       | X-ray, the difference between NIF and ASML would become even
       | smaller (or may be ASML would even use Sandia Z alike).
        
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