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Standalone Touch ID Sensor for Mac

https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch
2•ls-a•1h ago

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toomuchtodo•48m ago
Could you use a CCD to take a print or palm scan to not require contact for auth? My mental model on this is Eufy locks that perform a vein print. A 720p sensor seems sufficient.

https://www.eufy.com/familock-s3-max

https://www.ubisecure.com/authentication/finger-vein-biometr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vein_matching

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
1•mmoogle•8m ago•0 comments

Any L1 crypto devs out there looking for a new challenge?

1•daniel-alexande•11m ago•0 comments

Virtual Mac on iPad

https://github.com/nfzerox/VirtualMacOniPad
2•tortilla•15m ago•1 comments

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/
3•markerz•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design cinematic mecha startup sequences in seconds

https://reactorcore.itch.io/ignition-mecha-startup-sequence-maker
1•wowinter15•18m ago•0 comments

CFPB supervisor warned staff of unpleasant fallout if they go too hard on firms

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-consumer-watchdog-supervisor-warned-staff-unpleasant-fallout-if-...
1•petethomas•18m ago•0 comments

A heat spike in March ruined pistachio pollination, decimating crops

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/central-valley/article316731801.html
1•littlexsparkee•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A terminal AI coding agent that compiles natively on Termux – no root

https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/s/FqS76rc2z3
1•tfeayush•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Merona – x402 settlement index (raw feeds overstate volume ~100x)

https://merona.io
1•merona_io•20m ago•0 comments

It looks like 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry nailed bet against chip stocks

https://www.businessinsider.com/big-short-michael-burry-ai-chip-stocks-soxx-nvidia-substack-2026-8
1•mapping365•21m ago•0 comments

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-generated-stories-rated-better-quality-than...
1•uxhacker•22m ago•0 comments

To Save Japan's Heritage Homes, People Are Shipping Them Across the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/realestate/japan-heritage-homes-kominka-preservation.html
1•decimalenough•22m ago•0 comments

Kilometer-high Saudi tower inches closer to world's tallest record

https://newatlas.com/architecture/jec-tower-august-update/
2•teleforce•24m ago•0 comments

Young South Korean investors are finding company in collective misery

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-south-korean-investors-humor-cope-kospi-stock-market-rout-2...
1•mapping365•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Misalignments when using AI for hacking

https://blog.vulnetic.ai/ai-misalignment-and-penetration-testing-e812194b67ca?sharedUserId=Vulnet...
3•danieltk76•37m ago•0 comments

A Lightweight Open-Source LLM Benchmark Tool – Compare Any Model on OpenRouter

https://cheikhhseck.medium.com/i-built-a-llm-benchmark-tool-and-tested-it-on-free-models-heres-wh...
3•cheikhdev•40m ago•0 comments

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221
6•teleforce•41m ago•2 comments

Bugtraq Is Back

https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFH...
6•bashtoni•46m ago•1 comments

Spotted: Mac Studio with M3 Ultra 256GB RAM and M4 Max with 128GB RAM

https://gpuquicklist.com/blog/m3-ultra-256-and-m4-max-128
2•kristianp•48m ago•0 comments

Flowise Is Shutting Down

https://flowiseai.com/sunset
6•llmgraph•49m ago•2 comments

The Myth of the Food Desert

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/food-justice-undone-hanna-garth-book-review
3•delichon•50m ago•0 comments

US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-...
10•dataflow•51m ago•0 comments

Feynman's Office; the Last Blackboards [pdf]

https://aip.brightspotcdn.com/PTO.v42.i2.88_1.online.pdf
2•tylerdane•51m ago•1 comments

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963
24•tchalla•1h ago•2 comments

White House excludes open models from framework to test advanced AI capabilities

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/trump-ai-framework-open-models
3•petethomas•1h ago•1 comments

Poetry Camera

https://poetry.camera/
2•karakoram•1h ago•2 comments

Lorem Slopsum

https://macro.land/blog/lorem-slopsum/
1•priyadarshy•1h ago•0 comments

Standalone Touch ID Sensor for Mac

https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch
2•ls-a•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Find what users want by analyzing app reviews

https://seam.obverselabs.com/
2•OtmaneBenazzou•1h ago•0 comments

Nobody Was Watching: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Open Models

https://substack.norabble.com/p/nobody-was-watching
2•nedruod•1h ago•0 comments