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Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:41PM (#48389710)
Probably the scale and usability of things. It's different if you're controlling 100 LEDs vs 5,000.
Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:50PM (#48297842)
There's PicoMite: https://geoffg.net/picomite.html

It's a BASIC interpreter/OS for the RP2040

Re:Ask HN: Why electronics are still so unrecyclable? on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:41PM (#46978935)
> opportunity to take the bulk components off boards, test and sort them, and sell them in bulk.

I think this is already happening in China for certain components.

Re:Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:15PM (#46907766)
I think it's the PDF files that were attached to the emails, since they're base64 encoded.
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Preview Live in AI Studio on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:39PM (#45973770)

    but I would never want to have to interact with
That is its job security ;)
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025) on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:42PM (#45443232)

  Location: Los Angeles, CA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node.js, Express, jQuery, PostgreSQL, NGINX/HAProxy, Docker/containers, Linux
  Résumé/CV: resume.poyu.xyz
  Email: [email protected]
10+ years experience building web apps and services, computer is my hobby. Currently an engineering manager that still codes and work with PMs. My current job consists of talking with PMs, sorting out initial requirements and leading the team through thorough feature refinement process, also discussing with operations team to lay out plans for new features.

Looking for a change since my current company got acquired, and I've been in this role for quite a while now. Hoping to work on something meaningful, to myself or the community.

I interpreted "inactive" as the link that the shortener is linking to is not responding.
Made it sound like it's a computer, is it Turing complete?
Re:The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @03:05PM (#43988122)
I thought that just means they're buying him out?
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:54PM (#41073270)
> I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks

Shapeshifter! Those were the days...

Re:Google still recommends glue for your pizza on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:21AM (#40655479)
This exactly scenario is why our company is so afraid to put AI into production without the results being completely clear that it could be wrong. But if there’s even a chance that it could be wrong, why are we offering it to the user? How much due diligence does the user need to do? Does the benefits outweigh the cons?
Re:PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:16AM (#40595263)
That sounds more like Alibaba, where it operates like a B2B type transaction. In my experience, just talk to them, sure it might take more time but you can usually get a good price if you’re buying higher quantities.
Re:Google releases smart watch for kids on Thursday May 30, 2024 @12:34AM (#40520098)
They’ll have to leave the phone too
Probably need to store the bucket on some kind of persistent storage like ElastiCache?
USB! I’ve tried and failed couple times in understanding how USB works under the hood, from electrical, to protocol, then classes, and also Power Delivery. This time around things seem to make more sense now. It started out as an ambitious goal to emulate an FTDI USB DMX converter with the ESP32-S2/S3, but realizing that might be too big a goal, so I’m starting small. I want to be able to make a custom device class on the ESP32, and write a driver with libusb.
Re:Meta.ai Oh My on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:48PM (#40089879)
Basically embed a layer of transparent text to the PDF that's invisible to humans but visible to whatever PDF parsing software which will only get processed by LLMs
> Ai is not able to create original knowledge

The current state of LLMs do hallucinate though. It's just not a very trustworthy source of facts.

Great job, this is so cool!! Can't wait to see where this will be used in.
Re:Ugly Avatar on Monday March 25, 2024 @01:06PM (#39818734)
This is the generative art I love!
Re:Noland Arbaugh (First Neuralink Patient) Q&A Video on Saturday March 23, 2024 @12:42AM (#39797514)
Isn’t that like almost all of medical devices though? Including ones that have critical life sustaining functions.
Re:Resolume on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:21AM (#39701545)
Not exactly VJ, but could be used for it. https://openframeworks.cc
Re:Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:54PM (#39610992)
They only need the server's public key to encrypt it client side. But if all you want is to see if they're spying on you, you could go one step above and see if they're calling system APIs to your mic/camera/keyboard, instead of observing the network activities.
I never find the speed and acceleration of the Apple Trackpads slow. Out of curiosity, how are you moving your fingers when you want the mouse to travel long distances? What I do is repetitions of the movement on same area of the trackpad , e.g. my finger never drags more than two inches of the surface. I also have tap to click disabled, and use my middle finger to move, thumb to do left click, and middle + ring finger for right click.
Re:Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:23AM (#39380649)
I think `spi rd 0 2097152` is probably something in the telnet prompt that reads values from an SPI flash, the two number seems to be starting and ending range.
Re:Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours on Saturday January 27, 2024 @05:29PM (#39160536)
I’ve always thought this is due to Wi-Fi Assist [0] being less than helpful? Never tested any further though

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102228

Re:What if serverless meant no backend servers? on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:09PM (#39109034)
We can also just ship it with a browser?! Oh wait!
Re:Reading QR codes without a computer on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:21PM (#39094075)
Not sure if it's possible to be honest, it might be if you can sit down with a pen a paper. But again we've seen human perform seemingly impossible tasks before, so who knows.
This would only work assuming the IRS knows who Satoshi is, if they live in the States at all. One would also have to proof to the IRS that you own the addresses, do they understand public key cryptography?

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