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You can install and run Omarchy Quattro on a Pi 5, should the mood take you.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Plant watering system with Arduino Nano
Automatic plant watering system using an Arduino Nano, an aquarium pump, and a capacitive soil moisture sensor.
sam-bee··on Proposing a new lower bound for n=17 square packing problem
The n=17 square packing problem is the challenge of fitting 17 unit squares into the smallest possible square container.

This post proposes a new lower bound of 4.4811 on the size of the container.

The proof was written by GPT 5.6 Sol.

sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
It's soldered to the rebar, which is grounded through the actual power cable
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Thank you!
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Thank you!
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
I had to wheel the stand into the office on a trolley, I'm not making a laptop case lol
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
It's an English (UK) keyboard layout
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
It's very liberating, crafting something for yourself with no intention of selling.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
It's an honour just to be nominated <3
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
If it works, it works
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
I'm glad to hear you liked the post!
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Sure is! It was a lot of fun to make, and I think it ended up with a nice urban decay feel to it
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Yeah, getting it into the office was non-trivial!
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
My laptop has little rubber feet, so it dosn't scratch on its underside. But yes, the piece is solid concrete, so you wouldn't want to bash anything fragile against it.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Yes, I did feel a bit silly buying and using it, but to be fair it did get the bubbles out.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
The keyboard in the photo was bought from Amazon in the UK, as "Black Left-Handed Mechanical Keyboard".

I am indeed a right-handed user, which is why I want my mouse within reach on the right.

sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Thank you!
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Felt a little silly doing the work, but to be fair it did get the bubbles out.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
That got cropped out of all photos in the interest of taste and decency.
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
I took it to the office on a little trolley thing
sam-bee··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
The conduit is a good idea. I'm working on a Raspberry Pi stand in leather and walnut right now. Think I'm going to incorporate that somehow
sam-bee··on Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data
Nobody who actually codes in that language ever calls it 'Golang'
sam-bee··on Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
To be fair, they didn't 'break RSA'. What they did, or claim to have done, is factorised a 22 bit number on a quantum computer. If it had two prime factors, one would have to be below about 2,000. It would have been quicker to do it on a raspberry pi.

The main benefit of the ongoing rollout of post-quantum cryptography in browsers and webservers we're seeing at the moment is not that quantum computers are cryptographically relevant now - they're not. It is to safeguard against the 'store now, decrypt later' threat model, in which an attacker records your internet traffic now, then revisits it later when better codebreaking technology is available. This is why the NIST standards for PQC are being rolled out in TLS 1.3 by various cloud providers, reverse proxies etc. We are at a minimum a decade away from anyone breaking RSA on a quantum computer.