Putting "Instruments" in quotes would help. It's some program for Apple computers here. This is not about figuring out what measuring instruments are sending on the wire, something that's often proprietary.
HN headlines are often terrible like this. People take an existing word as the name of their product, and if you're not deeply involved in whatever niche this new gizmo occupies, you're left to click the article just to figure out what the "Crystal 0.25" headline refers to.
I got excited because I was recently looking at the binary format produced by the venerable Stanford Research SR785. I concluded that programming its GPIB port is easier.