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solariston Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens

OP mixed up accuracy and resolution.

solariston Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

AI on the edge https://jomjol.github.io/AI-on-the-edge-device-docs/

solariston Tell HN: No More Instant Reputation for Apps Distributed Outside Microsoft Store

If this is confirmed, it looks like no *signed* app or installer distributed outside the Microsoft Store gets instant SmartScreen reputation anymore. This effectively kills the entire EV code‑signing certificate value proposition. Over the past few weeks, we've been seeing inconsistent SmartScreen warnings for our apps that previously had stable reputation via Azure Artifact Signing certificates. Nothing changed on our side. This would also neatly explain why Microsoft support has been oddly silent and unhelpful on our tickets. If instant reputation is now Store‑only, that’s a pretty major platform shift that doesn't seem to have been clearly communicated.

solariston We should all be using dependency cooldowns

If you don’t eat food you won’t get food poisoning.

solariston We should all be using dependency cooldowns

All of security problems can be solved by not moving at all.

solariston Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video]

GitHub repo: https://github.com/dphilla/boxer

solariston Attacking My Landlord's Boiler

RF is basically black magic but here it’s the harmonics of lower frequencies that are in GHz range (and very noisy and weak)

solariston Attacking My Landlord's Boiler

One doesn’t actually need any extra hardware for this… just 8cm of wire and this https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx

(use at your own risk of course)

solariston Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs

Thank you for this beautiful language construct: sentence as verb.

solariston Footsteps of pi

One example is Ulam spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral

solariston EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer

They mixed up Garching with Jülich.

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

It's like using flash when photographing, with these ultra short pulses one could see how electrons move inside atoms and molecules.

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

Like, realy realy realy fast, one billionth of one billionth of a second.

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

L’Huillier, who became the fifth woman to win the physics prize, was teaching when she received the call from the committee, having the advantage of being in the same time zone as the committee.

(On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)

solariston Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?

There is also Piwigo which is open-source and can be self hosted.

https://piwigo.org/

solariston Timing with Curl (2010)

I had the same reaction upon learning that curl can talk LDAP.

solariston Echoes of Eco in His Library

"We have books made 500 years ago that look freshly printed, but we don't know how long electronic formats will survive. Today's computers are not able to read prehistoric floppy disks. All that is said is recorded, and knowing it is recorded, we don't feel any more the need to remember it"

solariston I Block Ads

I fully on agree on all the points and I try to protect my home (network), but I feel that’s a lost cause both from technical (e.g. dns on http/3) and psychological (more subtle and mixed with the actual content) aspects. My only hope is to try to digitally vaccinate my kids that they become more self aware on what they are exposed to.

solariston Dandelion Root Recipes

Oh they are also called Löwenzahn in German. The name "dent de lion" made the penny drop for me.

solariston The Worlds of Italo Calvino

You are not alone :-) I live by this very paragraph, as well as the last paragraph of Solaris by Lem:

“I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.”

solariston [dead]

This microphone is actually from the same Sennheiser. Sonova uses Sennheiser brand for producing headphones. Microphones and business solutions are still made by the “old” Sennheiser.

solariston Microsoft Kosmos-1: A Multimodal Large Language Model

Paper: https://arXiv.org/abs/2302.14045

Examples: https://twitter.com/alphasignalai/status/1630651280019292161

solariston Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?

I like very much Andreas Spiess for making projects with microcontrollers and his tutorials:

https://youtube.com/@AndreasSpiess

He has also a second channel for HAM radio.

solariston Hackers can trick Wi-Fi devices into draining their own batteries

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00269

solariston Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement

You prefer every printer manufacturer do this instead of none of them?

solariston UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses

See here: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...

At the end I decided against the ozone generator for my home and went instead for an air purifier with filter.

solariston What You (Want to)* Want

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

(But personally I don’t think that your argument holds)

Also http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/you-dont-have-free-...

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Sabine Hossenfelder had predicted the winners just last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNT9Hn-96rM&t=619s

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

The press-release has a fair summary: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release...

Also here for a bit of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test

solariston Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Even in THE press conference of the Nobel Physics prize, one cannot expect to get the facts fully communicated clearly. Superdeterminism is a local hidden-variable theory that reproduces the predictions of quantum mechanics.

Edit: Sabine Hossenfelder has explained this much better than I ever can: See for example http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/12/does-superdetermini...