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Schools are digging underground for their heat – and saving money

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/schools-are-digging-underground-for-their-heat-and-saving-money/ar-AA1EBIQa
1•MilnerRoute•1m ago•0 comments

Build and Use PostgreSQL 18 (Beta) from Git on Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS

https://privateisland.tech/dev/postgres
1•private_island•3m ago•0 comments

People's experiences with approaches to multitenancy (2020)

https://blog.arkency.com/peoples-experiences-with-approaches-to-multitenancy/
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (2006)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150618095413/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479086.aspx
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Promise to Kill DEI, and Trump's FCC Will Approve Anything

https://gizmodo.com/promise-to-kill-dei-and-trumps-fcc-will-approve-anything-2000603529
1•doener•13m ago•0 comments

Chrome extension to chat with anyone on any website

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/surfchat-chat-with-anyone/kjhmehooffbdbdkehondljgmocelpmgn
1•tanmaym•13m ago•0 comments

Fortnite unavailable on iPhones globally after Apple rejects App Store release

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/may/16/epic-games-apple-fortnite-app-store
2•beardyw•16m ago•0 comments

Controversial dentist Mike Mew on how 'mewing' can make you more attractive

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/there-is-no-excuse-for-ugly-people-controversial-dentist-mike-mew-on-mewing
1•n1b0m•16m ago•0 comments

Building an eBPF/Rust Tool for Easier SoC 2 Audit Data Collection – Thoughts?

1•akshaynathr•17m ago•0 comments

Programming in Martin-Lof's Type Theory: An Introduction (1990)

https://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/book/
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

France is tackling a crypto kidnapping wave denting its image

https://apnews.com/article/france-cryptocurrencies-technology-kidnappings-bitcoin-police-270a8786c987a43a5729e29f1471d42a
2•rawgabbit•44m ago•1 comments

Crossroads: When Succession Gaps Turn into M&A Opportunities

https://www.dealflowiq.com/p/crossroads-when-succession-gaps-turn
1•koolhead17•1h ago•0 comments

Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

https://firesky.tv/
1•OuterVale•1h ago•0 comments

Wooden Gear Clock Plans

https://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
1•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

WordPerfect for DOS Updated (2024)

https://mendelson.org/wpdos/
1•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

`This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

https://www.neowin.net/news/this-printer-company-served-you-malware-for-months-and-dismissed-it-as-false-positives/
2•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Thirdpen.app – An AI Interactive Leaning Platform

1•abdulmuminyqn•1h ago•0 comments

FCC approves Verizon's $20B merger after it commits to 'ending' DEI

https://www.theverge.com/news/668614/verizon-frontier-acquisition-fcc-approval
2•NeverBehave•1h ago•0 comments

Modern Android Client for Hacker News

https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN
2•flashblaze•1h ago•0 comments

IBM Open SDK for Rust on AIX

https://www.ibm.com/products/open-sdk-for-rust-aix
2•pjmlp•1h ago•0 comments

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management
2•olalonde•1h ago•0 comments

Spatial Speech Translation: Translating Across Space with Binaural Hearables

https://babelfish.cs.washington.edu/
3•taubek•1h ago•0 comments

Photon Re-Coupling, Black Hole Bombs, and the Quantum Engine of the Cosmos

https://medium.com/@dominicjanlin/photon-re-coupling-black-hole-bombs-and-the-quantum-engine-of-the-cosmos-a-manifesto-for-35bcb8cbf0b7
2•Bad_Risk•1h ago•1 comments

CarPlay Ultra's first trial reveals a deeply integrated, Apple-like experience

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/05/15/carplay-ultras-first-trial-reveals-a-deeply-integrated-apple-like-experience
1•taubek•1h ago•0 comments

Narwhals

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•m0nhawk•1h ago•0 comments

Braid and HTTP Sync

https://replicated.wiki/blog/braid.html
1•gritzko•1h ago•0 comments

Pointblank

https://posit-dev.github.io/pointblank/
2•m0nhawk•1h ago•0 comments

Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away)

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1kol4z1/vibecoded_a_professional_c99_compiler_with_a/
7•jgarzik•1h ago•0 comments

The West's shameful silence on Ğaza

https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
6•lyu07282•1h ago•4 comments

The Market Making Game

https://thiccythot.substack.com/p/the-market-making-game
4•synsynack•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

https://github.com/merliot/hub
33•sfeldma•5h ago
Merliot Hub is an AI-integrated device hub.

What does that mean? It means you can control and interact with your physical devices, your security cameras, your thermometer, seamlessly using natural language from an LLM host such as Claude Desktop or Cursor. The hub is a gateway between AI and the physical world.

What could go wrong?

Comments

chrisdalke•5h ago
Cool! As a moonshot fun idea I’ve been interested in MCP as a way to use informal conversations to task robots. I’ll have to play around with this!

One example on unmanned boats: a human could radio to the boat over VHF and say “move 100 meters south”… that speech-to-text would feed to an LLM which extracts the meaning and calls the MCP.

I’ll have to install this and play around.

trillic•4h ago
"There's a botter way"

https://www.marksetbot.com/

(not affiliated, just a fan)

sfeldma•4h ago
Ya, sounds like a good idea to let the LLM do all the calculations and send simple instructions to boat. MCP tells it what data is available from the device.

I tried the MCP server with the demo (https://merliot.io/demo) using Cursor and asked:

What is the location of the "GPS nano" device?

The location of the "GPS nano" device is: Latitude: 30.448336 Longitude: -91.12896

speerer•40m ago
This seems like a residential address. Irrespective of whether the creator deliberately exposed it, I would be a little bit cautious about sharing it further.
Kevcmk•4h ago
"What could go wrong?"
fitsumbelay•3h ago
very neat.
rybosome•3h ago
I have far more ideas about this than time to execute it, but for a long time I’ve had this fantasy about a robot bandmate.

The idea is I’d go on stage singing and playing guitar with a looper and some samples, then bring a robot toy and introduce the robot “controlling” the looping and sampling as the bandmate.

It’s a gimmick that’s been done before, but with LLMs driving verbal interaction and now I could use this to animate a robot…it becomes pretty compelling. I’d plug the LLMs into the audio feed so I could banter with it and get responses then have the robot avatar animate accordingly.

If only my full time job saw value in this project.