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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
63•ColinWright•57m ago•27 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
18•surprisetalk•1h ago•15 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
96•alephnerd•1h ago•43 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
120•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•22 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
822•klaussilveira•21h ago•248 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
55•vinhnx•4h ago•7 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
53•thelok•3h ago•6 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
102•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•117 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1057•xnx•1d ago•608 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
75•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
476•theblazehen•2d ago•175 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
202•jesperordrup•11h ago•69 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
545•nar001•5h ago•252 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
213•alainrk•6h ago•331 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
34•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
27•marklit•5d ago•2 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
113•videotopia•4d ago•30 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
73•speckx•4d ago•74 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
68•mellosouls•4h ago•73 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
273•isitcontent•21h ago•37 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
199•limoce•4d ago•111 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
285•dmpetrov•22h ago•153 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
21•sandGorgon•2d ago•11 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
555•todsacerdoti•1d ago•268 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
424•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
42•matt_d•4d ago•18 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
472•lstoll•1d ago•312 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
348•eljojo•1d ago•215 comments
Open in hackernews

Bluetooth Jammer

https://github.com/EmenstaNougat/ESP32-BlueJammer
43•yeknoda•7mo ago

Comments

BonoboIO•7mo ago
So this would be the brute force solution for people who are running their Bluetooth speakers on full blast in public spaces.
mfkp•7mo ago
Would potentially be useful when walking through grocery stores etc. that track your precise location and shopping habits through bluetooth beacons.

Or just leave your phone in the car and pay with cash...

yjftsjthsd-h•7mo ago
Or... Turn off Bluetooth on your device?
mfkp•7mo ago
If you trust that it's really off. Not sure if it's still the case but see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856030
yjftsjthsd-h•7mo ago
> This can be completely turned off in scanning settings. The article title is kind of clickbaity.

Okay, one extra setting and you're good. (Yes, that's not great, but if it works then it works)

lgleason•7mo ago
These are illegal in most countries.
pixelpoet•7mo ago
As noted in all-caps with exclamation mark, right at the top.
pixelpoet•7mo ago
That's the loudest readme I've read in a while, every other sentence ends in an exclamation mark!
amatecha•7mo ago
I wish these were legal. I do a lot of hiking in forest/mountain trails and it gets SUPER old having someone going along the trail bumping some loud music on a big Bluetooth speaker in their bag. Like, really? Get some earbuds and cut that shit out please. I came to nature to be in nature, not to listen to the latest hardstyle tracks emanating from some dude's backpack. I don't really see why I shouldn't be able to RF jam that shit since they're apparently allowed to jam my earbuds with their acoustic interference.
wpm•7mo ago
Just do it?

Some dipshit blasting music in the mountains isn’t going to call the FCC on you.

Incipient•7mo ago
Depending on the range/power, I'd be INCREDIBLY CAREFUL of disrupting emergency services.

I haven't researched into what effect it could have, but I'd definitely check first.

If it was safe...then it's definitely less likely to get you in trouble than stomping the 'dipshits' speaker into scrap!

btreecat•7mo ago
> Depending on the range/power, I'd be INCREDIBLY CAREFUL of disrupting emergency services.

What emergency services are you contacting with Bluetooth or wifi (or any 2.4ghz signal) when out on a hike?

btreecat•7mo ago
> I wish these were legal.

May I assume you _always_ drive within the speed limit?

Context matters when we personally evaluate legality and use that as a moral justification to do or not do something.

InTheBarn•7mo ago
Projects like this often refer to them being "For educational purposes."

I presume the "education" is the user learning how the legal system works, the laws that get applied when they are caught and the typical fines imposed.

btreecat•7mo ago
> Projects like this often refer to them being "For educational purposes." > > I presume the "education" is the user learning how the legal system works, the laws that get applied when they are caught and the typical fines imposed.

Sure that could be part of it, learning the laws is certainly part of getting your ham ticket.

But let's step back from a less snoody POV, and view it from another angle.

In your own home, it's fully legal to experiment with RF if you have a ham ticket, provided you don't cause destructive interference to _others_.

Jamming yourself, is like hacking your own wifi, you are not technically interfering with communication. Under the rules that you are allowed to manufacturer your own RF equipment provided you don't cause destructive interference with authorized transmission.

lucyjojo•7mo ago
depends on the country.
wtcactus•7mo ago
This might be illegal, but in my country, having loudspeakers on the beach or public transportation is also illegal (carrying heavy fines) and the police doesn’t seem to care at all.

So, I’m probably going to make myself one of these and carry it to the beach at least when I take my toddler.

Havoc•7mo ago
This would knock out wifi too, right?
tylerflick•7mo ago
2.4 Ghz, yes.
phplovesong•7mo ago
Souce code seems missing
btreecat•7mo ago
Neat idea, need to investigate how targeted the disruption is. You can do a lot with very little power and noise by doing targeted disruption. EG target the sync window.

The 30m range to me indicates they might just be trying to blast noise on all 2.4 given the called out applications.

I could see this being useful to test the resiliency of RC control links. Some modern links operate below the noise floor, but can dynamically scale up power to 2w. They might be able to punch through just overpowering the jammer.

Could be useful to simulate a very high noise floor environment or flying around something that has a lot of spurious emissions.

Recently was flying a drone around an oil rig in Ohio. Now using a loRa based RC control link. This is the first time I didn't have any issues with dropped connection compared to previous control link systems.

I would love to test it out in the lab first to have higher confidence in the field.

robotburrito•7mo ago
This would be quite useful for taking out people who use Bluetooth speakers on hiking trails :)