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Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•1m ago•0 comments

Kernel Key Retention Service

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/security/keys/core.html
1•networked•1m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
1•righthand•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•5m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•6m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•20m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•22m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
3•okaywriting•29m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•32m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•33m 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•34m ago•0 comments

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

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•34m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•35m 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•35m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•39m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•39m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•40m 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•40m 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•49m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•49m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•51m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•51m 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•51m 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...
5•pseudolus•52m 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•52m ago•0 comments
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Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs

https://danielmangum.com/posts/spi-routing-ice40-fpga/
99•hasheddan•2mo ago

Comments

Graziano_M•2mo ago
I enjoyed playing with FPGAs and all the open-source tooling makes it so much quicker and easier.

That said, I never understood the appeal of the FOMU. It's cool that it fits in a USB port, but so little IO, there's not a lot I can think to do with it.

Has anyone heard of some cool projects that others have done with this hardware?

CamperBob2•2mo ago
I suppose you could create your own crypto wallet or something, but agreed, an FPGA without I/O is not a very interesting or useful thing. You'd be better off with a conventional microcontroller, I'd think.
duskwuff•2mo ago
> You'd be better off with a conventional microcontroller, I'd think.

Or with a more conventional FPGA development board like Icebreaker:

https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker

Aurornis•2mo ago
The primary appeal of these minimalist devices is to get people started as cheaply as possible.

They exist at a price point where it’s an easy decision to pick one up on a whim and spend an evening installing the toolchain and building some little hello world tutorial.

Graziano_M•2mo ago
I was typing out a response saying that you can buy an ice stick for cheaper, I went to check the price and it's $150 now! https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...

I bought one for $25 back in 2018! What's going on here?

That obviously makes the FOMU a more reasonable starter purchase, but I'd still probably get an icebreacker for $80 (which I also have and love).

sylefeb•2mo ago
Hi there, a while ago I had a ton of fun with the Fomu: https://x.com/sylefeb/status/1571489610647371776

Fantastic little device! Relating to the post, I also happened to brick one erasing the Foboot bootloader by writing the flash beyond the limit (there was a bug regarding writing to addresses beyond max at the time, but then I was pushing the limit by abusing dfu-utils :) https://x.com/sylefeb/status/1391898565061001225 ). I tried to use the programming pads but at the time was lacking the skills and it ended in disaster (ripped pads...).

The code repo for the overall project is here: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus

Graziano_M•2mo ago
Wow very cool.
ChrisGammell•2mo ago
I aggressively enjoyed this post
cushychicken•2mo ago
Oh my god I fucking HATE the SPI config bus on the ice40 series

So difficult to get the directionality right and also enable a JTAG bus

Hate these parts for that reason

imtringued•2mo ago
I was thinking about an "In-system programming" use case and thought about how to best do it and the biggest problem by far is that powering the flash chip also powers the rest of the system. What a pretty niche topic to have a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happen to you.

I have to agree with others that the "Fomu" design appears to be highly suboptimal. They could have given you a way better edge connector on the other side.