I actually do a phd in a closely related area.
Creating better tools to do research with is definitely part of the research process.
While there is a lot of work in general operating systems, those aimed to specifically do a lot of microarchitectural experiments is still undiscovered ground.
> It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good enough way to tell them apart, we could factor them into two streams, but we don't yet.
But it would allow for a culture to grow where the posters would self-contain their submissions into those threads.
> Do you really believe that year after year game developers and game engines get worse and worse at performance? Of course not.
If you strictly want to blame Denuvo then that assumes game developers cannot think of a way to spend their extra performance either. Which is obviously not the case.
> Today we have a huge oversupply of scientists, however there's too many of them to allow judging for potential, and many are not actually capable of dramatic impact.
Realistically speaking it's also much harder to achieve the same level of impact back then as most, not just low-hanging, fruits have been plucked.
Don't nearly all electronics fall under it too, this is the second item after children toys in the link you posted.
> Here is a non-exhaustive list of products that are included in EU laws about CE marking:
> Toys, drones, electrical and electronic equipment, pyrotechnic products, recreational crafts and watercraft