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A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZ...
121•nvahalik•1h ago•79 comments

Pico-Banana-400k

https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k
28•dvrp•42m ago•2 comments

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
94•0xkato•3h ago•33 comments

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-wi...
191•JumpCrisscross•6h ago•153 comments

The Journey Before main()

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
154•amitprasad•7h ago•56 comments

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-features-being-rammed-down-our-throats/
128•gnabgib•2h ago•64 comments

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw
121•RohanAdwankar•6h ago•23 comments

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
46•benzguo•4h ago•7 comments

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)

https://lwn.net/Articles/631631/
61•st_goliath•5h ago•1 comments

Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)

https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
56•bakigul•6h ago•7 comments

An Update on TinyKVM

https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/an-update-on-tinykvm-7a38518e57e9
76•ingve•5h ago•16 comments

Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-missing-episodes-update-teases-announcement-newsu...
49•gnabgib•6d ago•25 comments

Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes

https://shadcnthemer.com
83•miketromba•6h ago•22 comments

ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf]

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Serebryany-Stepanov-Tsyrklevich-Memory-Tagging-Slides-LLVM...
47•fanf2•6h ago•16 comments

Rock Tumbler Instructions

https://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/
152•debo_•10h ago•75 comments

An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf]

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/15sp/papers/chambers.pdf
36•todsacerdoti•5h ago•18 comments

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/
63•kawera•6h ago•31 comments

We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable

https://libera.chat/news/advised
201•todsacerdoti•9h ago•61 comments

WebDAV isn't dead yet

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/webdav-isnt-dead-yet/
104•toomuchtodo•1d ago•55 comments

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew/
52•hexhowells•6h ago•16 comments

Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/belittled-magazine-robbins
35•Hooke•5h ago•24 comments

Ubios: China's Alternative to UEFI

https://pbxscience.com/ubios-chinas-alternative-to-uefi-and-the-new-era-of-firmware-standards/
12•1970-01-01•2d ago•5 comments

Passwords and Power Drills

https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-systems/raw/ch01.html#on_passwords_and_powe...
52•harporoeder•4d ago•15 comments

Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb/
40•zdw•6h ago•12 comments

Show HN: LLM Rescuer – Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Ruby

https://github.com/barodeur/llm_rescuer
65•barodeur•1d ago•10 comments

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

https://about.nike.com/en/newsroom/releases/nike-project-amplify-official-images
49•justinmayer•6h ago•35 comments

Making a micro Linux distro (2023)

https://popovicu.com/posts/making-a-micro-linux-distro/
156•turrini•13h ago•27 comments

Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware

https://edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon
65•vsgherzi•3d ago•30 comments

Honda's ASIMO (2021)

https://www.robotsgottalents.com/post/asimo
34•nothrowaways•6h ago•9 comments

The future of Python web services looks GIL-free

https://blog.baro.dev/p/the-future-of-python-web-services-looks-gil-free
180•gi0baro-dev•6d ago•75 comments
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Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb/
40•zdw•6h ago

Comments

JKCalhoun•5h ago
Not quite sure what the author's project is, but these sound interesting.

Is there something like war-driving for BLE Beacons?

ciferkey•5h ago
Author here. I have a big backlog of posts, but I did this one first because I was trying to cram an explanation of BLE beacons into the project post.

> Is there something like war-driving for BLE Beacons?

Yup, that essentially what Neostumbler is! If you have an Android device go check it out.

My hope for the project is to make a little embedded device I can use, so I don't have to drain my phones battery. Also because it's fun to learn about a new topic.

JKCalhoun•4h ago
Thanks. (iPhone user though. I'll look for another solution. :-))
shibapuppie•20m ago
Yes! the WiGLE project does Bluetooth geo-logging as well as WiFi.
RicoElectrico•5h ago
Interesting, because I do detect many BLE beacons in a residential building. These aren't bona fide beacons, this I can infer, but not sure what devices they are.
shibapuppie•9m ago
They could be anything from indoor location augmentation to hundreds of TV, headphone, pacemaker and other media/medical/anything-you-can-imagine devices.
anitil•2h ago
I'm surprised that these things transmit at around 1Hz, I thought it'd be on the order of every 10 seconds to a minute. Given that I assume a lot of beacon devices are running on a coin cell battery I would have thought it would be slower. Or is that particular only to this device?
Atotalnoob•1h ago
1hz seems slow to me. A company that I worked at was designing robust industrial, apple airtag/tiles with a specific application 8 or 9 years ago.

BLE operates on a very crowded frequency. WiFi, Bluetooth, etc are all on the same frequency and spamming out thousands of packets constantly.

We had to triple our broadcast frequency and period in order to reliably detect a beacon within 5 seconds of a phone being in range.

We settled on 200ms frequency and broadcast for 15ms.

Our decide had a 10 year battery life on a couple coin batteries…

shibapuppie•26m ago
I find it very intriguing you landed on 200ms, considering the default beacon rate of the majority of WiFi access points is 100ms. Clients do not like going much longer before you start dropping beacons and discoverability tanks... which is shown in your results. Genuinely fascinating.
vaxman•1h ago
This was obsoleted by UWB and Apple’s Nearby Interactions API.

https://www.qorvo.com/innovation/ultra-wideband/products/uwb...

gsibble•1h ago
Way back in 2014, I once built a neat test of a product I wanted. I was CEO of a company that allowed an internet API to interface with bar/restaurant POS systems. We could open/close tabs, make orders, etc..

I always hated closing my tabs at the end of the night at bars since it could frequently take a little while for only a few seconds of work.

So I built an app that detected once you entered a beacon's area, and opened a bar tab for you with your name on it. You'd just go up to the bar and order as if you had a tab open already, and when you were done, you'd leave. If your phone didn't detect the beacon for 15 minutes, it closed the tab with your preferred credit card and tip (which you could edit).

We had a demo going for employees at Local Edition on Market street. It was really cool and worked really well. The issues came that exact position was not very exact at that time and I didn't think it was a feasible product to build and market since the installation of beacons at bars vs gaining users would be difficult.

But for a brief period, I never had to hand my credit card to a stranger or worry about getting stuck 20 minutes trying to close my tab.

If you like the idea, take it and run with it. I'm not going to do it but I feel like people would love it.

ghm2180•18m ago
The original mozilla MLS was killed off due to litigation by Qualcomm(I think?). MLS wasn't for commercial use and neither is this, so What's the licencing/sustainability difference between these two and what kind of support might be needed to keep this going?