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Re:Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:56PM (#50095099)
It would be great if you had with proper HW acceleration and same performance as non openwrt FW.

And lastly ideally Qualcomm or Broadcom SoC and not mediatek

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:14PM (#49970044)
How is different from another device ? Phone, digital camera, etc .. someone can use that for taking the same photo ..

Is it the added convenience of the glasses?

Re:How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023) on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:18PM (#49293726)
How is current presidential iPhone getting secured?
Re:ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:41AM (#49145127)
Exactly… they would have added crappy antenna as they likely meet emission, spurious or harmonics requirements..

Engineer might be messing with other 2.4GHz devices by doing this

Re:Texas Instruments to Acquire Silicon Labs on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:50PM (#46968118)
Lot of Ultra low power options at Silicon Labs on BLE and Wi-Fi and add that with high market share on 15.4 (zigbee, thread) and Zwave.

Last acquisition TI did was NationalSemi in 2011, so this was a natural step for them to grow into MCUs, wireless, etc

Ask HN: Career pivot from wireless/HW to next paradigm – robotics, AV or –?

I've spent my career in wireless and hardware with some software exposure (though I dont do it myself), but I've missed the AI wave and lack some of the hard skills that are now table stakes.Looking at 2026, it seems like we're at an inflection point similar to when cloud/mobile were emerging. Physical AI, robotics, agentic systems, and autonomous vehicles keep coming up, but I'm trying to...

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Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:02AM (#46389581)
What use-cases do you think it would help on esp32?
Apple likely captures similar info but it is just they don’t sell the data but use exclusively for themselves.
And that too takes 15mins!
Re:Wake-on-LAN Using Cloud Functions on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:20PM (#44819925)
Can same be done for WoW(Wake on Wi-Fi)?
Re:Getting ready to issue IP address certificates on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:03PM (#44380805)
Does it help getting encrypted https (without self signed cert error) on my local router ? 192.168.0.1 being an example login page.
Would other SoC suppliers ( Qualcomm, Broadcom) embrace it?
Re:1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations on Sunday November 24, 2024 @02:54AM (#42226599)
Is there a way to get source files? To do similar layouts in excel or PowerPoint?
WiMAX has been dead for more than a decade now. Pretty rest of the spectrum is allocated to licensees for cellular/LTE/5G and other military applications.
American libraries could have benefited from these machines to dispense educational or entertainment CDs/DVDs. Today they store them on shelves.
Re:TP-Link GPL Code Center on Monday August 12, 2024 @07:57PM (#41230706)
Most of these FWs will not be able run on the device due to secure boot requirement
Re:PID Controller Explainer (2022) on Saturday April 06, 2024 @07:08PM (#39956511)
PID controller widely used in mid-high tier espresso machines to keep water output temp constant https://1024kilobyte.com/blog/2020/3/3/new-project-coffeepid...
Re:Renesas Buys Altium on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:44PM (#39392946)
What is the reason behind this purchase ?

For $6B, they could have bought completely new technology such as UWB, etc which they may not have.

Not sure if their pending offer for sequens is done or not as we’ll

Re:Wind River Linux on Sunday January 21, 2024 @08:06PM (#39084857)
Is this still being used? I remember having to license montavista during days of TI gateway chips.
Some tests were done on Comcast networks on cable plant.

Slide deck below explains it:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-11...

Not sure where this leads but I guess ISPs will start charging toll for express lanes

Re:Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:41AM (#38582781)
This looks more of manufacturing resources to work with Vietnam based contract manufacturers.

It is not moving US based core engg (software, cpu design, etc) to Vietnam.

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