We've merged the thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34203995, which has the original source suggested by the commenters here. (I've left the comments that only make sense in this context.)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Great read. It’s three years old now, and I wonder if this practice has become more or less common - I could see it going both ways. As such, perhaps a (2020) in the title would be useful.

Also probably better to link to the actual source, though hackaday isn’t really blogspam: https://richardg867.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/usb-c-done-chea...

Full write-up here https://richardg867.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/usb-c-done-chea...

Perhaps the link should be replaced with the original: https://richardg867.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/usb-c-done-chea...

I don't know why I continue bothering to look at HaD's comment section. It's always people bitching about 'not a hack' or arguing over some similarly meaningless detail