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Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

https://www.linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite/
44•MarcusE1W•2h ago•14 comments

When We Get Komooted

https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/
63•atakan_gurkan•2h ago•18 comments

Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
103•stubish•4h ago•6 comments

Sapients paper on the concept of Hierarchical Reasoning Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734
26•hansmayer•1h ago•5 comments

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

https://quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds/
89•todsacerdoti•5h ago•22 comments

Smallest particulate matter sensor revolutionizes air quality measurement

https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/news/worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor-bmv080.html
66•Liftyee•5h ago•21 comments

The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

https://www.robertmao.com/blog/en/the-future-is-not-self-hosted-but-self-sovereign
38•robmao•4h ago•35 comments

A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation

https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
47•LorenDB•3d ago•20 comments

Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

https://andreyor.st/posts/2025-06-09-implementing-dynamic-scope-for-fennel-and-lua/
9•Bogdanp•3d ago•0 comments

Beyond Food and People

https://aeon.co/essays/nietzsches-startling-provocation-youre-edible-and-delicious
7•Petiver•1h ago•0 comments

Reading QR codes without a computer

https://qr.blinry.org/
6•taubek•3d ago•1 comments

4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/npr-story/nx-s1-5481304
76•ProAm•3h ago•62 comments

Resizable structs in Zig

https://tristanpemble.com/resizable-structs-in-zig/
125•rvrb•11h ago•54 comments

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
42•debo_•3d ago•11 comments

How we rooted Copilot

https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/
303•uponasmile•17h ago•119 comments

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

https://www.infineon.com/part/BGT60TR13C
72•teleforce•3d ago•27 comments

Purple Earth hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
222•colinprince•3d ago•61 comments

Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp

https://janet-lang.org
42•veqq•7h ago•9 comments

Rust running on every GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/
540•littlestymaar•23h ago•178 comments

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/
74•albertru90•9h ago•21 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html
87•brandonb•11h ago•76 comments

Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

https://www.asimov.press/p/cable-bacteria
26•mailyk•3d ago•2 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation
100•JumpCrisscross•10h ago•87 comments

What went wrong for Yahoo

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-went-wrong-for-yahoo/
177•giuliomagnifico•14h ago•169 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwo1XsKKXg
66•magnifique•10h ago•4 comments

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BashGoodSetEReports
117•zdw•3d ago•32 comments

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336
202•geox•20h ago•238 comments

Arvo Pärt at 90

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90
81•merrier•12h ago•20 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615
60•virgildotcodes•10h ago•6 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html
80•smartmic•11h ago•35 comments
Open in hackernews

Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/science/meta-computer-wristband-reardon.html
27•Anonboxis•3d ago

Comments

aitacobell•3d ago
Was skeptical (especially because it's Meta) until it said it's designed for accessibility. Reminds me of the Xbox accessible controller. A lot of devices designed for accessible end up leading to cool user design discoveries.
nebben64•3d ago
https://archive.vn/9aDER
LorenDB•3d ago
Why is this just now news? They already built a similar device for their Project Orion glasses. As far as I can tell, this is just the same thing but with a PC driver.
nebben64•3d ago
Having tried prototypes at neuroscience conferences where their team attended, I can tell you that the device was incredibly brittle (e.g. damp wrist, interference from even the metal table or a nearby computer).

As it says in the article, the device seems to be more robust, and ready for the market soon. After having used ML to tune the decoding model on many participants contributing EMG data.

the-rc•3d ago
The paper was just published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w (the preprint was out almost 18 months ago)
etrautmann•3h ago
You’re correct that this was publicly announced last fall along with Orion. This is back in the news now because of the recent Nature paper demonstrating the performance of general models on new participants without additional training data. It has nothing to do with PC drivers.
mrbigbob•3d ago
For those curious meta actually bought out a company that orginally pioneered this idea (wrist controller) from a company called CTRL+Labs in 2019. Here is a verge article that has some photos of the prototype from CTRL-Labs. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...
tomhow•5h ago
https://archive.md/j0d78

Another company doing this (mentioned in the Verge article) was Thalmic Labs, a YC company from 2013, which was acquired by Google in 2020. I remember seeing their presentation at YC Demo Day and it was jaw-dropping stuff; one of the only demos I still remember, 12 years on.

It's sad to see they didn't make it as a commercial success, and is a grim reminder that brilliant innovation doesn't assure a successful outcome.

Caddickbrown•2h ago
Pretty sure Thalmic sold the tech to CTRL+. I’ve still got one of the bands knocking around somewhere. It was cool tech, but really wasn’t ready for a product.

Thalmic then became North to make smart glasses and then got sold to Google

dartharva•4h ago
So I guess the Kinect has vanished from everyone's memory
rkagerer•2h ago
As if I don't have bad enough RSI already. (Although a diverse repertoire of gestures might actually be better than repetitive taps)