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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace
566•mkagenius•10h ago•158 comments

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-just-because-it-used-usb-c/
62•blenderob•2d ago•21 comments

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card
902•wompapumpum•17h ago•188 comments

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5484013/engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use
50•andsoitis•3d ago•11 comments

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/
275•anarbadalov•13h ago•136 comments

What the windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called
12•whoami_nr•1h ago•0 comments

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
102•simonpure•9h ago•15 comments

Getting good results from Claude Code

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/
283•ingve•15h ago•119 comments

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
436•LorenDB•9h ago•87 comments

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust
213•j_kao•16h ago•52 comments

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

345•superasn•9h ago•235 comments

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

https://www.biographic.com/unmasking-the-sea-star-killer/
49•sohkamyung•3d ago•8 comments

Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car

https://electrek.co/2025/08/08/tesla-used-car-prices-keep-plumetting-now-literrally-cheaper-than-average-used-car/
18•MilnerRoute•1h ago•0 comments

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist
184•speckx•14h ago•27 comments

Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge

https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion
59•mattnewton•3d ago•2 comments

Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells (1988)

https://dreamsongs.com/Separation.html
4•Jtsummers•3d ago•0 comments

The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/
327•tosh•11h ago•301 comments

How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements

https://sirre.al/2025/08/06/safe-json-in-script-tags-how-not-to-break-a-site/
18•dmsnell•6h ago•6 comments

Window Activation

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/
185•LorenDB•4d ago•103 comments

Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells

https://wiki.why2025.org/Badge/Fire_hazard
89•fjfaase•2d ago•82 comments

Build durable workflows with Postgres

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution
110•KraftyOne•9h ago•40 comments

A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07284
51•PaulHoule•4d ago•2 comments

Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder

https://www.getlago.com/blog/self-hosted-saas
32•FinnLobsien•3d ago•8 comments

Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)

https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
72•littlexsparkee•5h ago•45 comments

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery

https://www.alexkesin.com/p/the-day-novartis-chose-discovery
13•quadrin•3d ago•4 comments

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font

https://www.spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font/
132•rbanffy•4d ago•25 comments

Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

https://github.com/steipete/poltergeist
25•jshchnz•3d ago•5 comments

Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent

https://blog.langchain.com/introducing-open-swe-an-open-source-asynchronous-coding-agent/
79•palashshah•12h ago•19 comments

Telefon Hírmondó

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3
81•csense•4d ago•19 comments

How attention sinks keep language models stable

https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm
169•pr337h4m•20h ago•27 comments
Open in hackernews

My DIY modular charging station

https://arun.is/blog/diy-modular-charging-station/
26•surprisetalk•2d ago

Comments

nullc•4h ago
I was expecting a fire resistant cabinet.

I keep my chargers and batteries in another building for anything with removable batteries.

femto•4h ago
I gather a burning battery tends to spray flaming debris in all directions. Even if it it's not full on flameproof, some sort of enclosure might contain debris and avoid spot fires.
progbits•4h ago
I'm as paranoid as anyone but this is too much even for me. How do you two charge your phones?
nullc•4h ago
Phones charge on fire resistant tile. I only use the other building for stuff with removable batteries which phones sadly aren't. If the phones had removable batteries I'd just get an extra set an swap with the ones on the charger when they run low.

I've been thinking of finding some kind of fire resistant box for phone charging though, so that's what I was hoping to find at the link. :)

slug•4h ago
There's bat-safe boxes ( https://www.bat-safe.com ) , but can't comment on effectiveness...
alanbernstein•2h ago
So you have a charging shed?
nullc•2h ago
Yes, pretty much!
montroser•3h ago
What I really want is for all of my outlets to have one A/C and one retractable usb-c cable. So the cables are exposed when in use, but coiled back into the wall otherwise. When will my dream come true?
abound•2h ago
When you make it a reality! For folks with even the most modest of DIY inclinations, there's never been a better time to try building things.
alanbernstein•2h ago
Generally I'm all for this, but newcomers to this stuff should be aware that DIYing 120v outlet or switch hardware can be a fire risk.
markdown•41m ago
The maintenance would be a PITA. Imagine having to change your outlets every year or two when the retraction mechanism dies.
jauntywundrkind•31m ago
Every battery & charger & their uncle is adding retractable cables.

I get the attraction, but I detest it! USB-C male jacks are designed to fail. All of these systems are designed to fail!

Thankfully usb-c's a lot more rugged, lasts a lot longer than previous designs. But there's still limits! Throwing out a whole charger or battery because the cable goes bad like this is so gross. Ideally there'd be a design where the retractable cable could appear built-in, but would at least be replaceble. That would be fine! But this retractable cable trend: it's a forced push towards disposable electronics.

AstroJetson•3h ago
I have the same thing. You can find a variety of drawer pulls that work for you. I used ones that have ends sticking out. That way I can wrap the excess cable. They are called Bar Pulls, and mine have a 1” extension on both ends.
nfRfqX5n•3h ago
Need one of these but for 2 electric toothbrushes
latchkey•3h ago
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Toothbrush-Charger-Braun-Ora...
moron4hire•3h ago
Speaking of charging setups: I have a wide selection of battery-powered tools all running the same standard of battery (Ryobi, but that's but immigrant, the other manufacturers have the same products). Week, actually, it's two, one for the big machines like the lawnmower and chainsaw, and one for the small ones like the drill. But one of the items is a battery dock using the big battery, a 4 amp-hr li-ion brick. It offers a standard mains socket (as well as USB-A and USB-C sockets) in which I plug my laptop when I work from home on my front porch or a smart-speaker when we want music outside.

For my laptop, one battery adds at least 80% to my battery time, plus I don't get down-throttled for being in battery power only, giving me about 4 hours at full power and another 5 on regular battery thereafter, plus the batteries are hot-swappable.

You can buy external battery backups specifically intended for electronic devices for significantly more money and they only give you one charge.

EDIT: example link https://www.ryobitools.com/products/46396026651