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You wouldn't steal a font

https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
459•todsacerdoti•3h ago•128 comments

Google blocked Motorola use of Perplexity AI, witness says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/perplexity-executive-says-google-blocked-motorola-s-use-of-ai-assistant
60•welpandthen•1h ago•24 comments

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/
804•yett•8h ago•176 comments

Yagri: You are gonna read it

https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri
29•escot•57m ago•4 comments

DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/
404•todsacerdoti•1h ago•165 comments

Teaching LLMs how to solid model

https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html
134•wgpatrick•4h ago•37 comments

MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine

https://www.featureform.com/post/deploy-mcp-on-aws-lambda-with-mcpengine
14•simba-k•6h ago•0 comments

Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp

https://kevingal.com/blog/cl-livecoding.html
78•adityaathalye•4h ago•24 comments

C++26: more constexpr in the core language

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes
45•jandeboevrie•3h ago•20 comments

AI Horseless Carriages

https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
406•petekoomen•6h ago•271 comments

Sail-Trim Simulator

https://simulator.atterwind.info/
66•stass•4h ago•15 comments

First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone

https://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2025/04/18/250418a.html
47•gnabgib•3h ago•16 comments

Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents

https://github.com/trycua/cua
91•frabonacci•6h ago•41 comments

Lucene University

https://github.com/msfroh/lucene-university
16•softwaredoug•2h ago•1 comments

The Future of MCPs

https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/publish/post/161906169
73•tylerg•5h ago•43 comments

Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fined-570-million-meta-094701712.html
295•Aldipower•12h ago•445 comments

Ninth Circuit Takes a Wrecking Ball to Internet Personal Jurisdiction Law

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/ninth-circuit-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-internet-personal-jurisdiction-law-briskin-v-shopify.htm
40•hn_acker•3h ago•27 comments

Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online

https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83
48•SinePost•4h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code

163•somebee•10h ago•52 comments

A Computational Proof of the Highest-Scoring Boggle Board

https://www.danvk.org/2025/04/23/boggle-solved.html
60•danvk•4h ago•17 comments

Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back

https://cq94.medium.com/get-your-minitels-back-the-computel-videotex-bbs-is-back-1d8c42f1ea17
11•rbanffy•3d ago•2 comments

Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi-disciplinary-artist-jack-rusher-on-the-need-to-sustain-your-creative-drive-in-the-face-of-technological-change/
46•adityaathalye•1d ago•2 comments

MinC Is Not Cygwin

https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html
245•thingfish•12h ago•171 comments

Show HN: Index – new SOTA Open Source browser agent

https://github.com/lmnr-ai/index
28•skull8888888•6h ago•1 comments

More Everything Forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/books/review/more-everything-forever-adam-becker.html
71•c0rtex•6h ago•91 comments

Willy Ley was a prophet of space travel

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/willy-ley-rocket-ashes.html
18•Stratoscope•1d ago•5 comments

Mt Ontake

https://www.emgoto.com/mt-ontake/
8•speckx•1d ago•0 comments

Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms [pdf] (2006)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20060024675/downloads/20060024675.pdf
52•austinallegro•8h ago•37 comments

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

https://rakhim.exotext.com/they-made-computers-behave-like-annoying-salesmen
223•NotInOurNames•6h ago•129 comments

How ZGC allocates memory for the Java heap

https://joelsiks.com/posts/zgc-heap-memory-allocation/
56•lichtenberger•11h ago•7 comments
Open in hackernews

The Danglepoise

https://www.sallery.co.uk/danglepoise
40•draazon•6h ago

Comments

draazon•6h ago
Overcomplicated lighting design
OJFord•6h ago
You might want to make it clearer you are OP and describing your work, I think some people might be reading this as dismissive criticism.

(Also, I don't think you can do it by edit, but next time note that you can submit both a URL and some accompanying text.)

draazon•6h ago
Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-criticism!
OJFord•3h ago
Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German! Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I almost voted down myself too, just then thought I recognised your username and double-checked.

One other thought actually - if you can still edit the title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The Danglepoise', since then people will know the author is around for discussion. Just anecdotally I would guess Show HNs tend to have more engagement/votes on average.

Anyway, nice project :)

draazon•2h ago
I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't be eligible for Show HN?
OJFord•1h ago
True, didn't really realise that actually, just read the rules. I'm sure I've seen similar as Show HNs.. but I guess maybe they had a GitHub project or whatever that tilts the scale.
ziddoap•6h ago
>I think some people might be reading this as dismissive criticism.

This is exactly what I thought. I downvoted (now removed) thinking that it was a random passerby being dismissive.

alabastervlog•6h ago
I was surprised at how short the table was, after the note up top about why they needed five lights because the table's so long. It looks way too big for the table, its proportions look like it belongs over a table 1.5-2 meters longer.
draazon•6h ago
That's probably down to the angle; the table is in fact over 3 metres long, and extendable.
alabastervlog•5h ago
Ah, OK, that makes more sense then.
mikepurvis•3h ago
I have a 9' dining table as well, and it can definitely be deceptive— mine would absolutely benefit from a "full length" lighting solution like this.
mulaG40•6h ago
Love the ambience they create, nice work!
AlfredBarnes•5h ago
I was just about to make a retractable light setup for my workshop. I hadn't thought of automating/motorizing it.

A simple pull reel was my goto, but that doesn't work in this application. Amazing work very smart and looks like a fun project.

chb•5h ago
Where did you find these fixtures, OP? I see something similar offered by Feit, but not quite as elegant.
draazon•5h ago
The lamp-holders and braided flex are from https://www.lampspares.co.uk/, and the bulbs themselves are from Heal's (https://www.heals.com/lighting/bulbs-and-fittings.html).
blutack•1h ago
It's obviously way too late now but esphome is a very nice easy mode solution for the whole remote upload/logging/server/mqtt/iot widget thing if you don't want to drag in esp-idf. First time bootstrap is via serial/webusb and then it's all OTA.

You can write custom c++ modules for bits they don't have already, although that's pretty rare. Often used with HA but it works fine standalone with MQTT too, and deployment doesn't have to be from a server.

https://esphome.io/