Monday, February 26, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Meta's new LLM-based test generator

Meta's new LLM-based test generator
355 by ben_s | 186 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
458 by uSoldering | 94 comments on Hacker News.
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main concern is that even released as a low-cost purchase, there is a very strong culture to share this type of information at no cost. I would like to have a more sophisticated suggested donation system adaptive to user country, but I wasn't able to find a good solution. In terms of 'good startup ideas', I don't think this is one of them. The very high level of soldering skill required makes it difficult to scale, and the prevailing piracy culture makes it challenging to monetize. My main advantage is that costs are very low now that I have the entire thing working. Other than forge ahead at a loss and hope for the best, or to pivot hard leveraging the imaging technology, I'm not sure what other options I have. It feels too complicated and repetitive for shoft-form video content. If you have any feedback, questions, suggestions, etc., I'd love to hear them.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
453 by uSoldering | 93 comments on Hacker News.
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main concern is that even released as a low-cost purchase, there is a very strong culture to share this type of information at no cost. I would like to have a more sophisticated suggested donation system adaptive to user country, but I wasn't able to find a good solution. In terms of 'good startup ideas', I don't think this is one of them. The very high level of soldering skill required makes it difficult to scale, and the prevailing piracy culture makes it challenging to monetize. My main advantage is that costs are very low now that I have the entire thing working. Other than forge ahead at a loss and hope for the best, or to pivot hard leveraging the imaging technology, I'm not sure what other options I have. It feels too complicated and repetitive for shoft-form video content. If you have any feedback, questions, suggestions, etc., I'd love to hear them.

Friday, February 23, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
471 by rooooob | 451 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Private company landing on the moon today

Private company landing on the moon today
492 by SigKill9 | 259 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Private company landing on the moon today

Private company landing on the moon today
492 by SigKill9 | 259 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
540 by galad87 | 267 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
680 by Jtsummers | 293 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
658 by Jtsummers | 280 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, February 8, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal

FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
617 by ortusdux | 397 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

VirtualBox KVM Public Release
449 by CyberusTech | 174 comments on Hacker News.
For the past few months we have been working hard to provide a fast, reliable and secure KVM backend for VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a multi-platform Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) with a great feature set, support for a wide variety of guest operating systems, and a consistent user interface across different host operating systems. Cyberus Technology’s KVM backend allows VirtualBox to run virtual machines utilizing the Linux KVM hypervisor instead of the custom kernel module used by standard VirtualBox. Today we are announcing the open-source release of our KVM backend for Virtualbox.

New best story on Hacker News: Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games
473 by sp3n | 355 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal

FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
569 by ortusdux | 358 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, February 5, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
507 by amrrs | 69 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
480 by amrrs | 63 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?

How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
434 by trashtensor | 250 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?

How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
434 by trashtensor | 250 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances
438 by ChrisArchitect | 219 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, February 1, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: My favourite Git commit (2019)

My favourite Git commit (2019)
553 by karagenit | 321 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: My favourite Git commit (2019)

My favourite Git commit (2019)
553 by karagenit | 321 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 507 by imaq | 433 comments on Hacker News.