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An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower

https://jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower/

32•rickcarlino•2d ago

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wolrah•1h ago

Strapping a Pi to a lawn mower for silly reasons, plus a bonus cat at the end. This is what I want in my internet.

en3r0•41m ago

Agreed. I love that this happened, and on IRC!

nirui•35m ago

You forgot to mention the hypnotizing video. You can get people to do anything for you after letting them watch it in repeat for more than half an hour.

jeremysalwen•1h ago

Check out http://openmower.de ... You could go all the way and make the mower be controlled over IRC.

Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/how-croatian-freediver-held-breath-for-29-minutes/

56•toomanyrichies•56m ago•5 comments

XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images

https://www.binarly.io/blog/persistent-risk-xz-utils-backdoor-still-lurking-in-docker-images

31•torgoguys•53m ago•8 comments

Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

https://www.fractionaljobs.io

134•tbird24•3h ago•67 comments

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

https://nadia.xyz/shameless

70•wdaher•2h ago•16 comments

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

https://www.popsci.com/technology/tibetan-prayer-scroll-scans/

27•Hooke•2d ago•1 comments

Obsidian Bases

https://help.obsidian.md/bases

283•twapi•3h ago•89 comments

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

https://github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu

75•admp•4h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering

255•braden-w•8h ago•69 comments

Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c

91•maxraven•6h ago•58 comments

Left to Right Programming

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming

192•graic•7h ago•166 comments

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html

202•asnyder•10h ago•172 comments

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

https://scrollguard.app/

466•adrianhacar•2d ago•185 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad

1•richard_pepper•3h ago

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242171

51•surprisetalk•4d ago•7 comments

A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]

https://jonathanadams.pro/blog-articles/Nasa-Fortran-Code-1963.pdf

4•keepamovin•48m ago•0 comments

What learning react won't teach you: Image Formats

https://idiallo.com/blog/react-and-image-format

5•foxfired•3d ago•1 comments

An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower

https://jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower/

32•rickcarlino•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

https://www.tinytpu.com

52•evxxan•5h ago•11 comments

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

300•flykespice•11h ago•89 comments

Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1542140

23•lsferreira42•3h ago•5 comments

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html

777•jerheinze•8h ago•370 comments

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

https://fsantanna.github.io/sc.html

15•jbkcc•2h ago•0 comments

HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

https://gizmodo.com/hr-giant-workday-got-hacked-2000644474

42•avonmach•1h ago•7 comments

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/

158•rntn•5h ago•70 comments

What could have been

https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been/

103•coppolaemilio•2h ago•84 comments

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree/

217•Bender•5h ago•58 comments

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

https://5wgraphicsblog.com/2016/10/24/the-cutaway-illustrations-of-fred-freeman/

71•Michelangelo11•2d ago•6 comments

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/sikkim-and-himalayan-chess-game

22•pepys•3d ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

https://www.realitydefender.com/platform/api

66•bpcrd•9h ago•29 comments

Phrack 72

https://phrack.org/issues/72/1

66•todsacerdoti•3h ago•6 comments