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Washington lawyer on furlough lives out dream of running a hot dog cart

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/washington-lawyer-furlough-lives-out-dream-running-hot-dog-cart-...
1•hansmayer•1m ago•0 comments

GenAI Image Editing Showdown

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
2•Hard_Space•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Project Journal – Give AI coding assistants persistent memory

https://github.com/CursorWP/ai-project-journal
1•CursorWP•13m ago•0 comments

Sandbox Your Program Using FreeBSD's Capsicum [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne4l5U_ETAw
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

TIL: Figma provides a helper function for gradient transforms

https://wpconverters.com/demystifying-figmas-gradient-transformations-a-developers-guide
1•drzivil•18m ago•1 comments

Scientists are racing to grow human teeth in the lab

https://www.cnn.com/science/lab-grown-human-teeth-spc
1•breve•21m ago•0 comments

We want to move Ruby forward

https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/we-want-to-move-ruby-forward/
2•ciconia•23m ago•0 comments

The Magic of Precision Engineering

https://www.hightechinstitute.nl/the-magic-of-precision-engineering/
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AI Pullback Has Officially Started

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-pullback-has-officially-started
3•danfritz•54m ago•0 comments

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Practical Defenses Against Technofascism

https://micahflee.com/practical-defenses-against-technofascism/
3•HotGarbage•58m ago•0 comments

The Magna Anima Genius Project

https://magnaanimageniusproject.substack.com/
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3•retronick2020•1h ago•0 comments

Salesforce Enterprise Deep Research

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Operating Systems Written in Free Pascal

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Sustained western growth and Artificial Intelligence

https://datagubbe.se/llmfix/
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Tell HN: Don't Vibe Your Design

2•davidtranjs•1h ago•1 comments

Hey LLM, write production-ready code

https://wejn.org/2025/10/llm-write-production-ready-code/
1•wejn•1h ago•1 comments

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4•m463•1h ago•0 comments

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The Layer 1 Blockchain Built for AI Agent

https://harvestai.co/
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Success Always Spawns Haters

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2•nobody9999•2h ago•1 comments

Language Modeling with Hierarchical Reasoning Models: Lessons from 1M Parameters

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2•jhspaybar•2h ago•0 comments

GameStop Declares Console Wars Over

https://twitter.com/gamestop/status/1982213786221109263
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Quick Dungeon Crawler Update 3.5.0: New Passives, CRIT DMG Nerf

https://dungeon.werkstattl.com/
1•logTom•2h ago•3 comments

Jan van Eijk's wise lessons and advice

https://www.hightechinstitute.nl/jan-van-eijk-wise-lessons/
1•o4c•2h ago•0 comments

How I Used Lies About a Cartoon to Prove History Is Meaningless on the Internet (2016)

https://medium.com/pcmag-access/how-i-used-lies-about-a-cartoon-to-prove-history-is-meaningless-o...
2•jfil•2h ago•2 comments
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Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb/
52•zdw•10h ago

Comments

JKCalhoun•9h ago
Not quite sure what the author's project is, but these sound interesting.

Is there something like war-driving for BLE Beacons?

ciferkey•9h ago
Author here. I have a big backlog of posts, but I did this one first because I was trying to cram an explanation of BLE beacons into the project post.

> Is there something like war-driving for BLE Beacons?

Yup, that essentially what Neostumbler is! If you have an Android device go check it out.

My hope for the project is to make a little embedded device I can use, so I don't have to drain my phones battery. Also because it's fun to learn about a new topic.

JKCalhoun•8h ago
Thanks. (iPhone user though. I'll look for another solution. :-))
shibapuppie•4h ago
Yes! the WiGLE project does Bluetooth geo-logging as well as WiFi.
RicoElectrico•9h ago
Interesting, because I do detect many BLE beacons in a residential building. These aren't bona fide beacons, this I can infer, but not sure what devices they are.
shibapuppie•4h ago
They could be anything from indoor location augmentation to hundreds of TV, headphone, pacemaker and other media/medical/anything-you-can-imagine devices.
anitil•6h ago
I'm surprised that these things transmit at around 1Hz, I thought it'd be on the order of every 10 seconds to a minute. Given that I assume a lot of beacon devices are running on a coin cell battery I would have thought it would be slower. Or is that particular only to this device?
Atotalnoob•6h ago
1hz seems slow to me. A company that I worked at was designing robust industrial, apple airtag/tiles with a specific application 8 or 9 years ago.

BLE operates on a very crowded frequency. WiFi, Bluetooth, etc are all on the same frequency and spamming out thousands of packets constantly.

We had to triple our broadcast frequency and period in order to reliably detect a beacon within 5 seconds of a phone being in range.

We settled on 200ms frequency and broadcast for 15ms.

Our decide had a 10 year battery life on a couple coin batteries…

shibapuppie•4h ago
I find it very intriguing you landed on 200ms, considering the default beacon rate of the majority of WiFi access points is 100ms. Clients do not like going much longer before you start dropping beacons and discoverability tanks... which is shown in your results. Genuinely fascinating.
vaxman•5h ago
This was obsoleted by UWB and Apple’s Nearby Interactions API.

https://www.qorvo.com/innovation/ultra-wideband/products/uwb...

gsibble•5h ago
Way back in 2014, I once built a neat test of a product I wanted. I was CEO of a company that allowed an internet API to interface with bar/restaurant POS systems. We could open/close tabs, make orders, etc..

I always hated closing my tabs at the end of the night at bars since it could frequently take a little while for only a few seconds of work.

So I built an app that detected once you entered a beacon's area, and opened a bar tab for you with your name on it. You'd just go up to the bar and order as if you had a tab open already, and when you were done, you'd leave. If your phone didn't detect the beacon for 15 minutes, it closed the tab with your preferred credit card and tip (which you could edit).

We had a demo going for employees at Local Edition on Market street. It was really cool and worked really well. The issues came that exact position was not very exact at that time and I didn't think it was a feasible product to build and market since the installation of beacons at bars vs gaining users would be difficult.

But for a brief period, I never had to hand my credit card to a stranger or worry about getting stuck 20 minutes trying to close my tab.

If you like the idea, take it and run with it. I'm not going to do it but I feel like people would love it.

ghm2180•4h ago
The original mozilla MLS was killed off due to litigation by Qualcomm(I think?). MLS wasn't for commercial use and neither is this, so What's the licencing/sustainability difference between these two and what kind of support might be needed to keep this going?