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I bought the most expensive cable I could find. It still died

https://medium.com/@pokhts/i-bought-the-most-expensive-cable-i-could-and-it-still-died-welcome-to-rs485-vs-1000v-dc-d9e73d31a607
2•PhilYeh75•43m ago

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theamk•27m ago
TL/DR: author tried to run RS485 cable next to 1000V DC line, could not solve EMI issues, did no real diagnostic (except cable swap), gave up and went to analog.

Also tons of AI-generated slop. Fr example the "shields do not protect from capacitive coupling" part is absolutely nonsense. Ground reference jumping, within reason, is totally OK for RS485. The disturbances do not accumulate. While DC/DC converters _do_ have fast switching transients, those are blocked by input/output capacitors and do not appear on the cables, unless those converts are defective.

Also, the title seems to lie. Author tried original cable and one more "OEM cable", and that's it.

Worst kind of AI slop.

TMNT: Shredders Revenge is a beat 'em up

https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/1voakcv/tmnt_shredders_revenge_is_an_awesome_beat...
1•akshatjiwan•1m ago•0 comments

My Dad Is in Prison. Here's Why I Built an AI Chatbot for His Electronic Tablet

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/14/prison-ai-chatbot-nova-cj-jones
2•Jimmc414•2m ago•0 comments

Wall Street's Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions
2•Jimmc414•2m ago•0 comments

Gravettian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravettian
2•dieselgate•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Let's all sell our AI stocks, short Nvidia and pop the AI bubble

4•roschdal•4m ago•1 comments

Peter Sarnak on "The AlphaZero Test" for Mathematics

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202607/noti3373/noti3373.html
2•adharmad•6m ago•0 comments

How to ship a database every day

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane
2•cbrewster•6m ago•0 comments

WakeAI – an AI assistant that tells you when to leave so you're never late

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wakeai/id6755909459
2•Abzino•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Karma in Menu Bar

https://github.com/rorz/karma-bar
2•sarreph•6m ago•0 comments

The restaurant menu that never goes out of date

https://menu.qrcard.in/
2•nookeshkarri7•8m ago•0 comments

Tesla defeats Sweden's IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike

https://electrek.co/2026/08/13/tesla-defeats-sweden-if-metall-union-strike/
3•robtherobber•8m ago•0 comments

The Neurosurgery Resident Who Proved Crouzeix's Conjecture [pdf]

https://alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMNews_CrouzeixConjecture.pdf
3•ilamont•9m ago•0 comments

Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed
6•Jimmc414•12m ago•0 comments

Software Factory with AI

https://twitter.com/i/status/2088296448563503269
3•flashbrew•16m ago•0 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions
3•twapi•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DST this DST that, test your containers

https://github.com/bxrne/dstest
3•bxrne•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hexis, open-source Claude Skills management

https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis
3•empire23•19m ago•0 comments

Guilt-Driven Development

https://markuseliasson.se/article/guilt-driven-development
3•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
5•rustdesk•21m ago•0 comments

Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/04/enabling-polonius-alpha-on-nightly/
2•ksec•21m ago•0 comments

Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect

2•henryfudgeoffic•23m ago•0 comments

In Stunning Color, a Celestial "Treasure Chest" Full of Stars

https://nautil.us/in-stunning-color-a-celestial-treasure-chest-full-of-stars-1283773
2•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

NIST Seeks Blueprint for AI-Era Overhaul of National Vulnerability Database

https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/nist-seeks-blueprint-for-ai-era-overhaul-of-national-vulner...
2•CrankyBear•26m ago•0 comments

France blocks social media ban because it would require adults to prove age

https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expressio...
26•BlueBerry2001•27m ago•5 comments

One Task at a Time

https://www.shirahaddad.com/writing/uno-alla-volta
1•mooreds•29m ago•0 comments

RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax

https://rayforcedb.com/
3•sourdecor•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-bench – build SWE-bench style evals from private repos

https://github.com/mupt-ai/self-bench
3•byhong03•32m ago•0 comments

AI: The Devil on My Shoulder

https://myrkvi.no/ai-the-devil-on-my-shoulder/
2•speckx•33m ago•0 comments

Deferred Token Response

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gerber-oauth-deferred-token-response/
2•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments

Hours of Jingling Keys [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNK4VKeoBM
2•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments