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tokyobreakfast
5 hours ago
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock...
A DAY AGO
LINOLEVAN
Art of Roads in Games
7 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
8 HOURS AGO
BRAJESHWAR
Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
AN HOUR AGO
SPECKX
Why Section 230 Is a Good Law and Why Messing with It Would Be Bad
2 DAYS AGO
CHWTUTHA
Vouch
5 DAYS AGO
PAULHOULE
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation
x01
7 hours ago
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
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waihtis
7 hours ago
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the trad...
sohkamyung
4 days ago
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world....
mariuz
4 days ago
Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL
Visual Studio Code - Development Container - PostgreSQL - jnidzwetzki/pg-dev-container...
ananas-dev
8 hours ago
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)...
cdrnsf
an hour ago
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE....
sebg
5 days ago
What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?
Surely people have thought about this but I couldn’t find anything on a short search. The question: let n be a random integer, say in [N,2N]. It factors as the product of p_i^a_i. So you can...
zaik
an hour ago
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, serv...
https://blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/
azhenley
16 hours ago
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, ...
bookman10
10 hours ago
Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders
Download and print beautiful, customizable versions of classic literature. Adjust font size, page layout, and margins for your perfect reading experience....
DyslexicAtheist
4 hours ago
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis....
cdrnsf
4 hours ago
ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you
: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents...
aaronng91
a day ago
Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
Most expert work isn’t “produce a probable artifact”; it's "choose a good move considering other agents, guessing hidden state". LLMs default to single-shot artifacts and need World Models t...
anthonykrivonos
a day ago
Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
We're building the AI platform for underserved industries. LLM usage has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, but there is still a significant gap between agentic innovation and its use in...