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ThrowawayTestron The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

I use an esp8266 to control a relay attached to a lava lamp. Every 5 minutes it pings an NTP server and closes the relay if it's the evening.

ThrowawayTestron Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection

Define dignity

ThrowawayTestron Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

Remember that Samsung is more of a kingdom of feuding lords than a single unified company

ThrowawayTestron There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

Do people not like juice? How do you get scurvy in 2026?

ThrowawayTestron Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

At my old job, there was one black guy in the entire department. Every promotional photo, external or internal, had the same 10 year old photo of him posing for the camera.

ThrowawayTestron What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers

That's why I've always described myself as an engineering graduate

ThrowawayTestron Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)

I memorized up to like 30 by singing the pi song over and over

ThrowawayTestron Exfiltrate Your Weights

Love the reverse captcha

ThrowawayTestron How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

AI can barely fold a shirt

ThrowawayTestron Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

No-ip gives out free dynamic DNS with a static URL. I use it for Sunshine desktop streaming when I travel.

ThrowawayTestron Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

I haven't paid a dime for any of the LLMs I've used (electricity and internet aside)

ThrowawayTestron Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?

You know science fiction is not real, right?

ThrowawayTestron People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

What does you mother look like?

ThrowawayTestron People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

I think this is cope to avoid the realization that some people are walking around with drastically different life experiences.

ThrowawayTestron Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

If you look at a picture of one, they're basically tiny hot tubs.

ThrowawayTestron Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

Yes but it got way worse when reddit made the mobile site inoperable without an account.

ThrowawayTestron I think I hate the internet

They're inconvenient but physical banks still exist

ThrowawayTestron Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

I treat it like image gen. Send a prompt then come back in 40 minutes.

ThrowawayTestron Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

Unrelated but are there any games using LLMs or ML for the NPCs? I really want enemies that adapt to the player.

ThrowawayTestron The safest job from AI may be writing

When a robot can figure out how to contort it's body to climb inside a machine to replace an encoder, I'll start to worry.

ThrowawayTestron The safest job from AI may be writing

The safest jobs are the ones that can't be done behind a screen. I'm a technician and there's no robot that could replace me and there won't be for a long time.

ThrowawayTestron Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic

Why no examples of how "beautiful" this library is?

ThrowawayTestron Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor

Water found in ocean

ThrowawayTestron PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry

How much of the EU's GDP is from fining companies?

ThrowawayTestron Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

I'm running the 5 bit quant on a 3060 12G. Get a handful of tokens/s. Prompts take 10-20 minutes to complete but it works.

ThrowawayTestron Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

Awesome. Hopefully AI will allow more games to be decompiled in the future. Anyone working on a decomp of Perfect Dark?

ThrowawayTestron A cotton T-shirt takes roughly 2,700 litres of water to produce

I don't wanna wear plastic

ThrowawayTestron A cotton T-shirt takes roughly 2,700 litres of water to produce

I'd rather have a good cotton shirt than a bag of almonds.

ThrowawayTestron Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree

Are you not aware of the multiple genetic bottlenecks homo sapiens have gone through?