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LCoder··on Every V4 UUID
Chome on Windows. Grab the right scroll bar and pull to the very bottom. Once at the bottom try to scroll down with mouse scroll wheel. Screen goes blank and the error appears in the console.
LCoder··on Every V4 UUID
Jumped to the bottom and the page locked up. Console shows:

  Uncaught Error: Index out of range - must be less than 2^122
LCoder··on Making my own bed sensor
I spent years in a previous job developing acute care pressure pads like these utilizing pressure-sensitive conductive ink. The simple open/closed circuit pads shown here work well above the mattress but (depending on your mattress weight and bed frame structure) can provide false positives when placed below. We had fun stories with our first home testers where many people (me included) planted our elbows and lifted when we turned during the night. This movement was enough of a weight lift over the pad to cause the first iteration of our sensors to trigger. The ability to adjust your bed's unoccupied zero point using an analog measurement, deciding how much weight should be added (or removed) to determine a state change, and over how much time the movement occurred makes a big difference in reliability.

Near the end of my grandmother's life, she was living with my parents and a fall risk. I did this same ESPHome implementation to HomeAssistant to provide us with alerts when she got up on her own in the middle of the night, and it helped my mother sleep much better.

Side note: those other two wires the author says they "have NFI what they do" are most likely wired into the pad as a permanently connected loop. Most monitoring equipment will look for a closed circuit on those wires to detect that a sensor pad is connected correctly and the sensor wire hasn't been broken (ripped, torn, cut, etc).

LCoder··on Raspberry Pi Nixie Atomic Clock
I'm actually starting this right now with my two teenage kids who are interested in going to college for CS. We are using an esp32 instead of a Raspberry Pi, but I'm having them work through all the hardware and software requirements to get sound (I2S) output, display, WiFi, etc.

My end goal is to have them create a backend api server for syncing data to the alarm clock, and then a mobile app so they can change settings remotely. I figure it is a good learning project for them to touch a lot of disciplines (hardware, embedded firmware, circuit design and layout, 3d modeling, web services, mobile apps) to see what they gravitate towards.

LCoder··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I've been working on a phone check-in system to help small businesses social/physical distance their customers by having them wait in their cars instead of sitting in waiting rooms or standing in lines.

https://lobbly.com

LCoder··on Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi
I don't have much that can help. We started with pressure sensitive foam for our first proof of concept since it was much easier to obtain. Soon after we worked with a Chinese manufacturer to source a replacement ink. They silkscreen and cure the ink for us into the sheets we need as a component in the final assembly.

One thing I can caution you on is how finicky the inks are. Ink thickness, curing time and temperature, and abrasions to the ink can have large impacts on the responsiveness of the ink to pressure. We do a lot of software and hardware work to mitigate these inconsistencies.

LCoder··on Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi
I'm currently working on a medical product which uses pressure sensitive ink in paper thin sheets to detect presence and movement through a mattress. I think I need to grab a piece of my scraps and put this together myself to monitor our office coffee.
LCoder··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
I own a domain which a lot of people on the Internet like to randomly type in when they are signing up for things. It is ridiculous how many services accepted those fake email addresses over the years and therefor how many accounts I could reset passwords for.
LCoder··on Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
On the topic of cheap oscilloscopes, I was looking for a cheap logic analyzer when I found the Saleae Logic. Not an oscilloscope, but if you put an input into analog mode you can visualize the waveform nicely. They have a discount for non-commercial use and startups.

https://www.saleae.com/

LCoder··on An Eclipse Chaser’s Guide to Your First Eclipse
Both of my local universities still have glasses available. One is giving them away free and the other is charging $1 per.
LCoder··on Puff Puff… Pass
At the bottom of the post it does state:

In the interest of responsible disclosure I did try and contact the dev multiple ways, I was either ignored or not replied to and I feel users deserve to know what’s happening with their data.

LCoder··on Bitcoins reached $300
campbx.com within the United States. They do 2 day ACH withdraws for $2 and same day domestic wire transfers for $20. After bitfloor closed down I switched and have been very happy.
LCoder··on Tesco enters the tablet fray with Hudl
I was thinking the tech startup Hudl would have a bigger issue: http://www.hudl.com/
LCoder··on Poll: How many Bitcoins do you have?
It you are truly interested in mining with your GPU try litecoin instead. There isn't currently an FPGA or ASIC solution so GPUs are still the most efficient mining hardware. At the time of this post they are trading at ~$4.40 a coin.
LCoder··on How To Design For Android Devices
Lets assume for a moment you are using the browser on your phone when a notification pops up alerting you to a new email. Clicking on the notification brings up your mail app and displays the email you just recieved.

At this point if you click the back button you will be returned to the browser session you were previously viewing. If, however, you were to click the up button instead you would remain inside your mail app and go “up” from your message to the inbox.

LCoder··on Ask HN: Best TV series you watched in 2012?
The Newsroom. A wonderful take on what broadcast news could be. Plus I'm a fan of Aaron Sorkin.
LCoder··on WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
MtGox is actually out of Japan. He is referring to the bitfloor hack which is based in the US.
LCoder··on VMware to Acquire DynamicOps
This isn't actually as surprising as you might think. Several of the Enterprise Management products they picked up in the last few years, including some from EMC, are .NET based. Two of those were products focus on provisioning and managing non-VMware systems which they have been attempting to combine into a single product for almost a year now. DynamicOps would fit into that nicely and hopefully fill a couple gaps in their existing functionality at the same time.
LCoder··on Ask HN: What are you Building?
I am working on a private Android app provisioning service with the ability to silently update apps on rooted devices. It started as a way to easily deploy Android apps I develop to my multiple test devices and has become a great method to manage and update my volunteer beta testers.
LCoder··on Ask HN: Any other devs seeing decreased android downloads from March 7th on?
I checked my last three months and March 7th was the largest drop I've had, but my numbers as of today are rebounding.