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What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•1m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•7m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•10m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•11m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•13m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•13m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•13m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•18m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•19m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•19m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•27m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•28m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
3•pseudolus•31m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•31m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•32m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•32m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•33m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•38m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•40m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

My DIY modular charging station

https://arun.is/blog/diy-modular-charging-station/
35•surprisetalk•6mo ago

Comments

nullc•6mo ago
I was expecting a fire resistant cabinet.

I keep my chargers and batteries in another building for anything with removable batteries.

femto•6mo ago
I gather a burning battery tends to spray flaming debris in all directions. Even if it it's not full on flameproof, some sort of enclosure might contain debris and avoid spot fires.
progbits•6mo ago
I'm as paranoid as anyone but this is too much even for me. How do you two charge your phones?
nullc•6mo ago
Phones charge on fire resistant tile. I only use the other building for stuff with removable batteries which phones sadly aren't. If the phones had removable batteries I'd just get an extra set an swap with the ones on the charger when they run low.

I've been thinking of finding some kind of fire resistant box for phone charging though, so that's what I was hoping to find at the link. :)

slug•6mo ago
There's bat-safe boxes ( https://www.bat-safe.com ) , but can't comment on effectiveness...
alanbernstein•6mo ago
So you have a charging shed?
nullc•6mo ago
Yes, pretty much!
montroser•6mo ago
What I really want is for all of my outlets to have one A/C and one retractable usb-c cable. So the cables are exposed when in use, but coiled back into the wall otherwise. When will my dream come true?
abound•6mo ago
When you make it a reality! For folks with even the most modest of DIY inclinations, there's never been a better time to try building things.
alanbernstein•6mo ago
Generally I'm all for this, but newcomers to this stuff should be aware that DIYing 120v outlet or switch hardware can be a fire risk.
markdown•6mo ago
The maintenance would be a PITA. Imagine having to change your outlets every year or two when the retraction mechanism dies.
jauntywundrkind•6mo ago
Every battery & charger & their uncle is adding retractable cables.

I get the attraction, but I detest it! USB-C male jacks are designed to fail. All of these systems are designed to fail!

Thankfully usb-c's a lot more rugged, lasts a lot longer than previous designs. But there's still limits! Throwing out a whole charger or battery because the cable goes bad like this is so gross. Ideally there'd be a design where the retractable cable could appear built-in, but would at least be replaceble. That would be fine! But this retractable cable trend: it's a forced push towards disposable electronics.

dleary•6mo ago
The retractable cable is overkill. I remodeled my house a couple of years ago and replace most of the wall outlets with the kind that have 2 AC outlets and 2 usb ports, a USB-A and a USB-C.
AstroJetson•6mo ago
I have the same thing. You can find a variety of drawer pulls that work for you. I used ones that have ends sticking out. That way I can wrap the excess cable. They are called Bar Pulls, and mine have a 1” extension on both ends.
nfRfqX5n•6mo ago
Need one of these but for 2 electric toothbrushes
latchkey•6mo ago
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Toothbrush-Charger-Braun-Ora...
moron4hire•6mo ago
Speaking of charging setups: I have a wide selection of battery-powered tools all running the same standard of battery (Ryobi, but that's but immigrant, the other manufacturers have the same products). Week, actually, it's two, one for the big machines like the lawnmower and chainsaw, and one for the small ones like the drill. But one of the items is a battery dock using the big battery, a 4 amp-hr li-ion brick. It offers a standard mains socket (as well as USB-A and USB-C sockets) in which I plug my laptop when I work from home on my front porch or a smart-speaker when we want music outside.

For my laptop, one battery adds at least 80% to my battery time, plus I don't get down-throttled for being in battery power only, giving me about 4 hours at full power and another 5 on regular battery thereafter, plus the batteries are hot-swappable.

You can buy external battery backups specifically intended for electronic devices for significantly more money and they only give you one charge.

EDIT: example link https://www.ryobitools.com/products/46396026651

latchkey•6mo ago
You can also buy adapters for the various brands too. So you can buy Ryobi and then use the same batteries on different tools. Don't feel locked in.
Brajeshwar•6mo ago
This neat, clean, and simple. I saw a few videos (on YouTube) some time ago, where the DIYer had Ikea Pegboards as a charging station. I really like that. It is extendable, unrestricted, can be isolated from workstations, desk, etc. Complete it with a fire extinguisher nearby should be a good setup.

Look for Ikea Pegboard Charging Stations if you want some inspiration.