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Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP"
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:56AM (#50105535)
I want this for the scuba version of the watch and frankly also the dog stuff too. I looked and yeah the ecosystem isn't very welcoming to integrate or build with.
Re:OpenCode 2.0
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:03AM (#50102463)
how do you beat the game? What does the little box on the left do?
Re:Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:22AM (#50020956)
Must have been. I ended up tossing it since I'm sure the costume itself was highly flammable
Re:Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:08PM (#50014200)
One of my kids had something like this built into a Halloween costume that their mom procured from Amazon. One of the filaments was blinking out within a day so I started running the length of the filament to figure out where the bad connection was. Unexpectedly it shocked the hell out of me. I put a meter on it and it was 240V. I couldn't believe I got such a nasty poke from 2 AA batteries.
Re:Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:29PM (#49883179)
Agree a good one this is needed but there are 4-5 semi functional Word MCP servers including one from the vendor. This one still isn't feature complete. This is going to sound rude, and I don't mean it that way, but how did you get accepted to YC for this? Was this some kind of pivot off your accepted idea and business plan?
Re:Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:37AM (#49576956)
My skill went up quite a bit when I started watching Louis Rossmann's explainer videos. He mainly does component level repair of macbooks and he covers his troubleshooting approach and the equipment he uses is nothing you can't replicate at home. I don't bother pulling out microscope for repairs and just stick with magnifying glass.
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:13AM (#49576703)
The downside of reading posts about the practical application of AI is that the practioner often uses AI to write it. I don't know why AI prose is so hard to read in the browser. I don't have any problem when reading off my TUI
Re:How I Over-Engineered My Book
on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:53PM (#49335850)
Textbook example of structured procrastination. I bet you got all your household projects done as well as taxes for next year
Re:My two year old taught me constraint solving
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:53PM (#48996492)
Once I got the battery powered Brio train, it became more fun for me than the kids
Re:My two year old taught me constraint solving
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:51PM (#48996470)
If the comment from the 2yo correcting him about oblong vs. oval wasn't enough to trip your satire detector, 'graph with two cycles' should have blown it up. And now I realize that your comment 100% had to be sarcasm and I'm a fool for responding. At least I didn't downvote
Re:Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling head...
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @11:04AM (#47691244)
Yeah I had something like this for several years. Works really well for cars
Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global...
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:00PM (#47300771)
you can't downvote replies so it wasn't him
Re:Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:54PM (#46866273)
I think xkcd should fund it, that would be comical.
Re:Pushing the smallest possible change to production
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:45PM (#46727719)
Similar to working with an open source tool. Fix all the errors you find in the documentation when you are getting it up and running. If the pull request gets handled well and quickly, future contributions will probably be painless and productive.
Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:06AM (#46645635)
How did you find $4 on Hetzner? I didn't see anything close!
Re:Open Sourcing Dicer: Databricks' Auto-Sharder
on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:01PM (#46608898)
Seems weird to call it sharding since it's not sharding indexed datasets or anything like that. Is this just a tool to mitigate Databricks’ internal service-scaling challenges?
Re:A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:37AM (#46540339)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Re:The most banned books in U.S. schools
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:22PM (#46318949)
It may seem like an attack on queer books, but as far as I can tell none of the straight books seem to be trying to explain how minors should get access to adult dating apps to meet older men, or showing obscene graphical depictions of sodomy involving children.
I think if librarians were buying "straight" books with the same explicit and adult content and putting them in elementary, middle, and high schools, the same parents would be complaining about those too.
Re:The most banned books in U.S. schools
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:11PM (#46318792)
What? Mein Kampf and Anarchists Cookbook didn't even make the list at all? Something's fishy here
Re:Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:27PM (#46151697)
The actual headline here is sort of misleading -- the 4x price increase is over the past 3 months!
Re:A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:37PM (#46116734)
Did he really need that crazy probe or was that a joke? Normal probes that come with Fluke 179 couldn't do it? I guess mine says 1000V so not rated for it. Do they even make 4000V handheld meters? How are you supposed to do the calibration?
Re:WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
on Monday December 01, 2025 @02:49PM (#46112204)
If you've ever looked at the admin panel of even a minor league, single page Wordpress site you'd probably recognize it as a major risk for any organization instantly. So many of the plugins look like spaghetti, with most you're trusting some random name to not be malicious. Unsurprisingly there are 60,000 CVE related to WP. I get that we all use a dozen node packages that we can't reasonably verify, but WP seems so much more wild west than that. I guess i's fine if you are a low value target, but a commercial CMS is not terribly expensive, and should be mandatory for any government org.
Re:China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
on Saturday November 22, 2025 @07:05PM (#46019500)
Interesting claim that the reactor doesn't need water and can be built away from the coast. I thought all reactors used steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity. Something special here?
Re:MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov
on Sunday November 02, 2025 @09:46AM (#45790690)
Can't even blame gen z staffer for this. What's the youngest you could reasonably be to get this one? 35? Also not having Tom in top 8 is a big miss
Re:Google demonstrates 'verifiable quantum advantage' with their Willo...
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:30AM (#45680638)
Because to steal bitcoin by reverse engineering a private key from a public one you need to be able to factor a very large number. Currently the highest number they have factored using only quantum computing is 21.
Re:Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art
on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:02PM (#45545945)
Tried "Images of german shepherds" and not one on the page of 16
Re:Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art
on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:59PM (#45545924)
Yale has an amazing one, worth looking at: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/
Re:Global Village Construction Set
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @07:53PM (#45510419)
This is exactly the type of information you want loaded on a HDD tucked away in case of calamity. You won't be able to find all the parts but the ideas would be invaluable.
Re:3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:15AM (#45503317)
without Limited Liability Companies, a civil matter as simple as a copyright lawsuit could permenently bankrupt a small business and take the owners house and all their assets.
I don't agree with companies wantonly externalizing their costs onto the environment or the populace such as Dow or 3M poisoning the entire planet. Criminal liability never goes away for serious crimes, whether sole-proprietership, LLC, or Corp. We need to actually start jailing people though
Re:How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:49PM (#45267067)
Well the fan in the Framework desktop is some kind of purpose built high performance Noctua fan that is significantly louder than usual. So they are suggesting to use the new grill with the fan that comes with it so you don't encounter throttling.