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minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
2•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•6m ago•0 comments

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

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•10m ago•0 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•12m ago•0 comments

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

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1•bkls•13m 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•19m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

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2•todsacerdoti•22m ago•0 comments

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GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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1•ms7892•24m ago•0 comments

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Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•25m ago•0 comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•26m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
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SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

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Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
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I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

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Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

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OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
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What It's Like to Be a Worm

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2•surprisetalk•42m ago•0 comments

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5•pseudolus•43m ago•0 comments

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1•1vuio0pswjnm7•43m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•44m ago•0 comments

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3•obscurette•45m ago•0 comments

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2•jackhalford•46m ago•0 comments

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

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2•tangjiehao•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board

https://github.com/PegorK/f32
302•pegor•2mo ago
As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.

Comments

tmpfs•2mo ago
This is a very cool experiment, even if the board doesn't end up being that practical (the antenna hack is going to be an ongoing issue I think) your documentation looks great at a glance!
pegor•2mo ago
Thank you! I agree, antenna definitely needs some improvement.
wkat4242•2mo ago
You should take the metal of the USB connector into account. This will significantly alter the emission pattern of the antenna. Try to find a radio amateur in your area, we have equipment to measure and software to predict antennas.
anyg•2mo ago
If it is a little bigger to incorporate a bigger chip antenna and some GPIO pins, it is going to be very useful for a lot of IoT projects!!
pegor•2mo ago
Definitely would be more functional with more of the GPIOs exposed.
forsalebypwner•2mo ago
If you want an ESP32 dev board with GPIOs exposed there are dozens (or hundreds, maybe thousands) of other options out there. It makes sense not to expose them when you're going for the smallest possible footprint.
stavros•2mo ago
I don't know, I see enough space for four GPIOs there. Not holes, obviously, but pads should be very workable.
imtringued•2mo ago
It could be even smaller without that USB C port and have more GPIO pads.
PunchyHamster•2mo ago
there is plenty of those already and not all too hard to make yourself, see LilyGo T01-C3

Its of format of original ESP8 so you get serial + 3 IO pins

margalabargala•2mo ago
The XIAO series of ESP32s is exactly that.

They are 4x the size though, almost exactly double in both length and width.

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/XIAO_ESP32C3_Getting_Started/

sho_hn•2mo ago
These are quite lovely. Ceramic SMD antennas are awesome.
dotancohen•2mo ago
It's also got 15 times as many GPIO pins as the board in the fine article.

And this PCBA will be smaller than the battery in most applications anyway.

margalabargala•2mo ago
It only has 14 pins, 3 of which are 5v, 3.3v, and ground, so slight exaggeration :-) point taken though
lelanthran•2mo ago
These are nifty. I've used them in production, but if you want to make used of the charger it's difficult.
venusenvy47•2mo ago
Can anyone suggest a small module that supports 5 GHz WiFi?
NuclearPM•2mo ago
> This can be seen in my highly necessary depiction below.

I love this. Fun and insightful article. Thank you.

pegor•2mo ago
Thanks for checking it out!
unwind•2mo ago
Me too, but that particular picture was confusing. Shouldn't the board be with the human, 120 ft from the wifi access point being connected to? Now it looks as if the human screams at the board from 120 ft away, or something.

Other than that, hugely impressive project of course, it makes any board I've tried to design/assemble look impossibly huge. :)

nhecker•2mo ago
No, I think the human holds a smartphone, is standing 38m away from the board, and is still able to connect to the distant board via the open Access Point it makes available. It's a testament to the communication between the Access Point and the human connecting to it.

FTA:

> In a clear line of sight test with the f32 placed about 3ft off the ground I was able to connect and perform scans/control the LED at roughly 120ft!

Fun fact, at that size the whole f32 is smaller than the wavelength of the radio waves it's using for 2.4GHz WiFi. Not that this is unique by any stretch, but it's still fun to think about. (Edit: formatting)

ingen0s•2mo ago
Nice work, kudos!
jacquesm•2mo ago
If you add another GPIO and make a silicone mold you could make an in-cable eavesdropper on USB connections that streams out the data via the wifi. That would be a pretty scary tool in the right circumstances.
atemerev•2mo ago
These cables can be bought for like $200 mostly legally.
Gys•2mo ago
> PCBWay does also offer assembly services

Seriously? For a tiny board like this also? Genuine question.

kube-system•2mo ago
yes, but they use a machine, they don't do it by hand.
puzzlingcaptcha•2mo ago
01005? Oh no no no. I can barely do 0402s by hand and those are _2.5x_ larger.
VTimofeenko•2mo ago
FWIW, there's a step by step soldering guide in the readme:

https://github.com/PegorK/f32#building-the-f32

It looks doable, but of course a lot of carefulling is required when placing the components.

sho_hn•2mo ago
With one of those mini-hotplates for reflow soldering and a LCD microscope it's still fairly doable.
joemi•2mo ago
Wouldn't 0402 be 4x larger (if comparing lengths) or 16x larger (if comparing areas), not 2.5x?

Edit: Nevermind, I was wrong. I see now that the sizes don't actually directly correspond to the number codes! 01005 is 0.4mm x 0.2mm and 0402 is 1mm x 0.5mm. That's annoyingly confusing, IMO.

Neywiny•2mo ago
Metric mm vs imperial thou. Confusing but at least explainable
numpad0•2mo ago
infuriating fact: 0402 metric = 01005 imperial, 0402 imperial = 1005 metric. looks like this is the only semi-duplicate in common use.
rts_cts•2mo ago
And that's how I ended up with half a reel of 01005 resistors...
stavros•2mo ago
Wait wait wait what? 01005 isn't metric? They switched to imperial for just that size? What?
numpad0•2mo ago
I was a bit outdated with resistor sizing and I don't have a great sources but apparently there are:

    inch 0402, 0201, 01005, 009005, 008004, $1
    mm   1005, 0603, 0402,  03015,  0201,   01005
these sizes... and $1 is the one in your mind that shall not be written in inches. The "01005 imperial" is just 0402, so it's not going up to the metric 01005 scale or beyond. I think.
uticus•2mo ago
Step 1: build a robotic arm with larger components...
Rebelgecko•2mo ago
Really cool. I just ran into a situation where it would be handy to have a small Bluetooth device that plugs into USB-C. However soldering something like this seems a bit beyond me, is there a more turnkey solution?
dotancohen•2mo ago
The company that printed the PCB, PCBWay, also offers PCBAs. They're really not expensive, though you might need to order in batches of multiples of five.
actinium226•2mo ago
JLCPCB also offers assembly and they're much, much cheaper, like an order of magnitude cheaper.
wkat4242•2mo ago
Wow thanks!!! I've been trying to find a cheap flex pcb supplier but the cheapest i found was $150 for 10. They are way cheaper making my project viable!
myself248•2mo ago
There's no makerspace nearby that could give you access to the tools and supplies to upgrade your skills?
stavros•2mo ago
This is great, well done! I don't know where I'd use this, but I'd definitely want to use it.
allenrb•2mo ago
Jesus. You had me at “hand-soldered 01005 components”.

I’m tempted to try a few of these just to see how disastrous my build efforts are.

Swannie•2mo ago
I was thinking "how much smaller than the cheap 30mm x 25mm boards on AliE can you go?" ... much smaller!

Very nice.

selcuka•2mo ago
FYI XIAOs are 21x18mm.
k__•2mo ago
I just learned about XIAO boards from Grok a few days ago, lol.

The Sense versions are pretty rad. Now I only have to add a battery and a touch sensor and I'm good to go.

actinium226•2mo ago
Neat! I just sent out an order to JLCPCB for an ESP32 based board. I don't have a rework station or any experience with SMT so I decided to go for their assembly options. It's 80 per board, but would probably be cheaper per board if I got more than 2 (I also have more components on my board than you).

Question about the instructions in your README, you say that once you're done with the top side, repeat for the bottom, but when you're working on the bottom side, what stops the elements on the top side from falling off once the heat passes through the board and melts the solder on that side?

brokenmachine•2mo ago
"Bottom side must be done using a rework hot air gun, not possible with hotplate."

Basically you're hoping the bottom side doesn't get hot enough for everything to move or fall off.

4b11b4•2mo ago
Surface tension of solder in liquid state can hold the parts while upside down. Depends on weight of component & geometry of pads
pegor•2mo ago
Working on the bottom side I only used the heat gun really carefully on the resistors then used a soldering iron with a fine tip for the usb-c connector since the leads are fairly large.
wkat4242•2mo ago
People that hide exploit devices in public chargers are going to love this one lol. Cheap, small and enough power
GardenLetter27•2mo ago
Is it powerful enough to run a reverse proxy?