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andrewstuarton IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

I really want to read a bunch of old papers from the IEE library but it looks very hard to get access to at any reasonable price for personal usage.

Anyone got any hints or tips for me?

andrewstuarton The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

Disgusting.

andrewstuarton Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

These chips appear to be 8051s with multi hundred MHz DACs.

Be fun to program them but I can’t find any programmable devboards with the Capstone CS5213.

andrewstuarton Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

Gemini suggested to me that a number of these chips are “industry standard drop in replacements” for each other effectively clones.

But finding more information to settle it would take googling in a desktop for a few hours chasing down weird Chinese forum rabbit holes.

andrewstuarton Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

>> A photo revealed the chip was a NX3303X; I could not find any datasheets

Not much information out there but these are similar chips, possibly it’s a clone?

Capstone CS5213 datasheet:

https://file.elecfans.com/web2/M00/2B/BD/pYYBAGHVUbyARd_-AAU...

And also the AlgolTek AG6200 / AG6201 Series, datasheet:

https://assets.yoreparo.com/attachments/28SGHqLW2Z2MfSzEBJB4...

andrewstuarton What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

SQL is awesome and you’ll never get the best out of your database unless you learn to program the damn thing and bit hide behind some abstraction.

We do programmers always need a library?

Program the damn thing.

andrewstuarton 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

They look good what was your process.

andrewstuarton Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

I’ve seen a few posts about a “better social network” tried a few even thought about making my own.

It seems hard to get them off the ground.

I wonder if the answer to the enshittification of social networks is “no social network at all”.

andrewstuarton Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

Mice are so goddam healthy.

They get all the good medical breakthroughs.

andrewstuarton Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

The politics is too powerful it will never truly happen.

There WILL be something slightly lighter with the ability to move the taskbar.

andrewstuarton Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests

There’s no reason for kids under 6 to ever look at a screen.

andrewstuarton IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

Imagine if someone put plausible but strange/shocking fake videos on an open port for the voyeurs to think real and freak out about.

andrewstuarton IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

“Give 20 different designs all must be distinct unique and not look averaged like a typical LLM site”

andrewstuarton Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

Google Gemini is that naysayer senior developer who confidently tells you it can’t be done.

Claude is that easy to get along with smart hard working guy who just gets on with it and builds it double quick.

ChatGPT is the eager senior developer who says it can be done but can’t actually work it out and fluffs it.

andrewstuarton US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia

Then it bounces back.

andrewstuarton Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

If programming requires LLM/AI then regulation by government is needed to stop this overreach, which has the primary goal of banning you permanently forever making sure you can never come back to programming, in the event some AI in their system decides you have done something “wrong”.

andrewstuarton Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]

The Critical Drinker would beg to differ (look him up on YouTube).

andrewstuarton The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

But it IS “digital detox” and Christian Simpson has said many times that’s what Commodore is.

Despite Christian’s YouTube channel being all about retro and nostalgia, that not what Commodore is about.

andrewstuarton The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

Here you go:

https://lilygo.cc/collections/t-deck-series

andrewstuarton Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU

So you program it with dip switches is that right?

Truly old school.

andrewstuarton Ask HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just AI slop for the UI/UX?

Tell Claude to use its web design skill and give you 10 styles to choose from. Point it to a style you like.

andrewstuarton John Jumper to join Anthropic

John Jumper what a great name sounds like a video game action hero.

andrewstuarton DeepSeek Introduces Vision

Why do you think it’s free?

Any ideas, theories where they get their payoff?

andrewstuarton DeepSeek Introduces Vision

OpenAI and Anthropic need to get this free foreign competition banned.

andrewstuarton US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

They need to blacklist all free foreign AI/LLM models because they are free competition which is against democratic capitalism.

andrewstuarton How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

Why do this? I can’t see that it would be better than running chrome.

andrewstuarton How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

How many tabs do you use per server?

andrewstuarton I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

It makes no sense to compare.

andrewstuarton Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

CSSON - CSS as a data format https://github.com/crowdwave/csson

andrewstuarton Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

I made a utility that backs up/images a cloud Linux server by unmounting the root disk and snapshotting it.

I made my own firmware for the little AI assistant esp32s3 AI balls you can buy from Ali Express. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008627679270.html

Made a version of Infocom adventure frotz player to work with voice control on the AI ball so I can play Planetfall using voice control.

Made a toast alerter for Linux terminal command line.

Made a thing to alert you when someone signs in to a Linux server.