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Human-in-the-loop NLP as a first-class control layer

https://github.com/rado-stack/human-in-the-loop-nlp
1•rado-stack•41s ago•0 comments

Digital Euro 'only defence' against deepening US control of money

https://www.ft.com/content/b0602271-cd43-4a6e-a96d-c8166a05d040
1•rorylawless•1m ago•0 comments

I Made My Own Programming Language

https://github.com/Youg-Otricked/QuantumC
1•YougOtricked•6m ago•0 comments

Universal Commerce Protocol

https://ucp.dev/
1•qainsights•9m ago•1 comments

Was Philip K. Dick a Madman or a Mystic? (2016)

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2•debo_•10m ago•0 comments

React Router has XSS Vulnerability · CVE-2025-59057

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3cgp-3xvw-98x8
1•maxloh•11m ago•0 comments

JEP Draft: Java Thread Sanitizer

https://openjdk.org/jeps/8208520
1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto

https://dfamonteiro.com/posts/using-dotnet-trace-with-perfetto/
1•lalitmaganti•15m ago•0 comments

High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/high-ram-prices-mean-record-setting-profits-for-samsung-a...
3•walterbell•15m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/jdvanwijk/dc-input
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Ask HN: Cursor (LLM) Costs

1•anonyfox•18m ago•1 comments

Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents

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1•todsacerdoti•19m ago•0 comments

New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce-ai-tools-protocol-retailers-platforms/
1•AznHisoka•20m ago•0 comments

Key Chinese Money Laundering Network Member Charged W Laundering Drug Proceeds

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3•737min•23m ago•0 comments

Fifty People Control the Culture

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Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone?

2•kvaranasi_•26m ago•2 comments

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https://patricktoulme.substack.com/p/when-xla-isnt-enough-from-pallas
1•patrick_toulme•28m ago•0 comments

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https://dioptre.github.io/tidal/
2•dioptre•28m ago•1 comments

America's most novel train project is too deadly

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3•yakkomajuri•28m ago•0 comments

There Is No Budget for Books

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WUTA WRENs

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Situation Monitor

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DOJ sues California cities over natural gas bans

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-california-cities-over-natural-gas-bans
5•737min•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ma'at – Court-defensible jury analysis platform (open source)

https://github.com/Jennaleighwilder/MA-AT
1•jennaleighwest•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Sonars in 3 weeks to see if AI coding is useful for my company

https://sonars.dev
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVI7atoAeoo
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Local Food for the Hudson Valley

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True Scale of Solar System

3•Sarakuzoi•50m ago•0 comments

Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-apple-silicon
2•tensegrist•53m ago•1 comments

An open spec for cryptographic API authentication

https://github.com/atf-open-standard/atf-specification
1•nagabandaru•55m ago•1 comments
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Ask HN: Tips for getting the ROM for an old speech synthesizer?

2•ctoth•3h ago
I'm building an emulator for the Braille 'N Speak, a Z180-based notetaker for blind users from the early 90s. One component is the SSI-263 (SC-02) speech synthesizer from Votrax/Silicon Systems.

The SC-01 was decapped and its ROM extracted back in 2007, but the SC-02 has different phoneme data. MAME and AppleWin both just map SC-02 phonemes to SC-01, which doesn't produce accurate speech.

There's a high-res die shot of the SSI-263P on visual6502.org (Greg James / Christian Sattler): http://www.visual6502.org/images/pages/Silicon_Systems_SSI_263P_die_shots.html

I don't know enough about ROM extraction to tell whether that image is sufficient or if delayering would be needed. Looking for anyone who's done this kind of work or can point me in the right direction. I have chips and can cover costs.

Comments

pestatije•1h ago
excuse my ignorance... wouldn't it be enough to just plug the chip and read its contents?