frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

EEG-based neurofeedback in athletes and non-athletes

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/11/1202
40•PaulHoule•2mo ago

Comments

Lapsa•2mo ago
more or less same crap is achieved via radiomyography from your local telecom towers. down to deciphering your inner monologue
Lapsa•2mo ago
spying on Americans is illegal so Americans outsource spying of Americans to British
Lapsa•2mo ago
Department of Defense Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Budget Estimates May 2009, USA

``` Silent Talk (U) Silent Talk will allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals. The brain generates word-specific signals prior to sending electrical impulses to the vocal cords. These signals of “intended speech” will be analyzed and translated into distinct words, allowing covert person-to-person communication. This program has three major goals: a) to attempt to identify electroencephalography patterns unique to individual words, b) ensure that those patterns are generalizable across users in order to prevent extensive device training, and c) construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would decode the signal and transmit over a limited range. ``` https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiscal_Year_2010_DAR...

thesz•2mo ago
This looks no harder than to train custom Kaldi (circa 2017) phoneme model on brain waves, and using remaining Kaldi's functionality for everything else, except for text-to-speech. There was WaveNet for the TTS at that time, with sound quality that is good enough for (and can be improved by) radio transmission.

Thanks for a link!

Lapsa•2mo ago
point is - such tech is used right now to neutralize individuals. imagine hearing word "bread" inescapably couple hundred times a day coming from an unknown source right to your head. for months and (!) years right at the moment you are trying to conceptualize slightly harder thought than usual. everywhere you go 24/7. while there's no help from anywhere (police hasn't answered me for 2 years and counting) as the general public brushes it off as schizophrenia (it's not - voices completely stopped when the lightning storm took out the electricity) and Church paints it as the second coming of Christ (or antichrist when more suitable).
Lapsa•2mo ago
my mostly uneducated guess of what's going on is: radio wave gets sent, human body slightly modulates it and same signal gets received back and used to reconstruct (approximation of?) EEG from noise delta. neural models is the secret sauce that makes such signal processing possible
Lapsa•2mo ago
The Microwave Auditory Effect James C. Lin, Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle University of Illinois Chicago

``` The preceding sections document that an audible sound originates from within the head when human subjects are exposed to pulsed microwave radiation. The auditory detection of pulsed microwaves in laboratory animals has been confirmed both in behavioral and neurophysiological studies. The site of microwave-to-sound conversion is shown to be in the brain tissue. The primary mechanism of interaction is microwave pulse-induced thermoelastic expansion of brain matter. ```

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366412

Lapsa•2mo ago
Novel Muscle Sensing by Radiomyography (RMG) and Its Application to Hand Gesture Recognition Cornell University, Ithaca, NY https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10950291/
Lapsa•2mo ago
Neural decoding of music from the EEG, University of Essex > Using only EEG data, without participant specific fMRI-informed source analysis, we were able to identify the music a participant was listening to with a mean rank accuracy of 59.2% https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9837107/
Lapsa•2mo ago
Evaluation of antenna suitability for the use in radiomyography Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

``` The envisioned application is radiomyography which aims to detect muscular activity by the means of electromagnetic waves coupled into the human body. The paper concludes that it is possible to detect changes in the thickness and the properties of the muscle solely by evaluating the reflection coefficient of an antenna structure. The ability to detect these changes strongly depends on the antenna type. ```

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6711930

Lapsa•2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography

``` Unvoiced or silent speech recognition recognizes speech by observing the EMG activity of muscles associated with speech. It is targeted for use in noisy environments, and may be helpful for people without vocal cords, with aphasia, with dysphonia, and more. ```

radiomyography ~= form of electromyography

BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
Were this the case, it would be trivial to read the internal monologue from your brain activity with a device placed on your head. Can you find me examples of medical devices that can do this?
Lapsa•2mo ago
here's an example - you can download and run code for yourself https://github.com/CNN-for-EEG-classification/CNN-EEG
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
That’s just a library that applies a CNN to EEG, but that doesn’t show that it can actually extract text reliably. As far as I know, the machines that successfully do that use the nerve signals to vocal muscles, not the brain directly.
Lapsa•2mo ago
this particular library may not be as reliable as one would like to. but the approach is fairly simplistic and likely without an access to powerful data center computation power. as far as (!) you know - you have already acknowledged existence of such machines. what I'm advocating for is existence of slightly more exotic sensing mechanisms - available to be used en masse straight from the telecom towers. RMG as a successful substitute for EMG (which in turn is a substitute for EEG) in context of deciphering whatever data captured into inner monologue.
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
My logic is pretty simple. If it’s hard or impossible to do something by placing a high conductivity sensor on the surface of a person’s skin, then it’s probably not possible to do it from a long distance right now. Doing this with telecom towers, which are randomly positioned relative to people, would be an absolute technological marvel, sci fi stuff.
Lapsa•2mo ago
I don't think it's that hard nor impossible. I mean - here's a dude playing a video game with (!) somebody else's hand https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-contro... 12 years ago
Lapsa•2mo ago
and if you wonder why would anyone do such thing - there's a peculiar coincidence: right before voices became annoyingly obnoxious - Russian State Revenue Service got hacked (not to mention there's an ongoing war in neighboring country for quite awhile). I was not intoxicated, kept up fairly healthy lifestyle. besides who's attacking or who's defending, surely enough - there's enough of steam for some casual torture
Lapsa•2mo ago
also - my suspicions are that promise of this kind of surveillance is precisely the reason for data center construction boom. that and augmented generative pornography with some war simulations on the side
Lapsa•2mo ago
and you need to take into account the background I have. (synthetic?) telepathy is what I'm forced to deal with every day (and yes - with nearly no way to prove it to you). radiomyography and microwave auditory effect is the best and most suitable explanation I've managed to find at least somewhat backed up with public scientific papers. no real contradictions, certainly seems more truthful than "evil shamans hate you and your astral implants". I don't have a hard evidence in a form of working device nor can I afford it. keep your pills to yourself
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
What makes you a strategic target? I don’t have those voices.
Lapsa•2mo ago
that's like asking to boast. and I don't think I'm alone - there's quite an influx in mental patients and hinting in such directions (typically - aliens). I suspect a lot of people are in denial of what they have experienced knowing very well that society marks it as schizophrenia. go check youtube on keywords: gang stalking, targeted individual, voice to skull. my guess on why you don't have them: it's still assumed you are loyal enough / can be manipulated in more regular ways
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
>it's still assumed you are loyal enough / can be manipulated in more regular ways

Yeah fair enough I suppose. To be honest, what you’ve expressed resembles schizophrenia very closely. How are sure that the voices aren’t externalizations of yourself, or processes taking place within you?

Lapsa•2mo ago
are you a doctor? I can tell you anecdotes of hearing never before heard person names and couple days later stumbling upon them (usually watching shows I routinely watch). or about the time voices took a Christmas holiday break the first year (my guess - clankers weren't fine tuned enough to run on their own). or that I led unintoxicated, stressless and healthy lifestyle yet the voices started suddenly as if somebody flipped a switch. point is - this is not my burden and shouldn't be. how do doctors rule out microwave auditory effect? aren't you worried that in the world we living in potentially anyone can mark somebody else as schizophrenic? cause if you don't - I might just as well affirm that any kind of sound takes place within you and hence makes you schizophrenic.
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
>are you a doctor?

No and I’m not trying to diagnose you or something. You brought it up so I felt I should be honest based on what little I know about the condition. Take it with a grain of salt.

>I can tell you anecdotes of hearing never before heard person names and couple days later stumbling upon them (usually watching shows I routinely watch)

If you routinely watch the show, maybe it came up earlier and you forgot?

>point is - this is not my burden and shouldn't be.

See I get what you mean. I’m not trying to say it’s your responsibility or something. I just don’t think you should have to put up with shit that bothers you all the time, and were I correct that it’s some known medical condition, it might be much easier to make it stop than if it’s a massive organized group trying to manipulate you. Do you lose anything giving the medical thing a shot?

Lapsa•2mo ago
> If you routinely watch the show, maybe it came up earlier and you forgot?

no

> Do you lose anything giving the medical thing a shot?

a lot

Lapsa•2mo ago
in Germany - prescription drug addiction is more widespread than alcoholism
Lapsa•2mo ago
why do you suppose blind from birth people are immune to schizophrenia?
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
Are they? I figure they just don’t have visual hallucinations.
Lapsa•2mo ago
perhaps immunity ain't confirmed. but just recently there was an article of a complete absence of documented cases. not a single blind from birth person has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. why do you suppose that's so? if I put on my conspiracy hat and go balls to the wall - arguably whole disease thing can be painted as a hoax, as an another form of a societal control. how have you ruled out such possibility? have you read about mental disease treatment from 1950s and after-lobotomy surgery ice cream treats? I don't have visual hallucinations either
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
Hmm I think you’re right. That’s really interesting. If this implies it’s a deliberately constructed phenomenon, what mechanisms could be responsible for producing it visually?
Lapsa•2mo ago
you mean hallucinations? visual signal gets rewired and skips the perception part. neuroscience can provide more details. I'm barely interested as I have reasonably strong aphantasia and don't suffer (yet?) from such issues
Lapsa•2mo ago
https://amitzalcher.github.io/Brain-IT/ perhaps replaying back such signal recordings
Lapsa•2mo ago
why do you think it has to be massive and organized? I estimate that with a good know how-to whole thing costs about $1k in equipment and runs unattended.
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
I thought it was from telecom towers?
Lapsa•2mo ago
I think so too. it's a radio antenna and some software that can run unattended. what I can do is note how accessible such tech is - reasoning about scale of anonymous entity is somewhat pointless (you called out massive & organized).
BriggyDwiggs42•2mo ago
Fair. Could you build a receiver that would detect the microwave signal? Probably wouldn’t be too difficult, and you seem like a technical person. You could prove it or, at worst, stop anyone from sending the signal if they wanted to avoid detection.
Lapsa•2mo ago
I would love to but I can barely afford food. so much for 15 years of software development experience...
Lapsa•2mo ago
worth mentioning is that bone conduction headphones are somewhat effective at interfering with the voices. not the case with air conduction (regular speakers). which also aligns with paper by James
Lapsa•2mo ago
oh... forgot to mention - frequency spectrum of what's heard fits to what's described on James C. Lin's paper. ```For human heads, the theory predicted frequencies between 7 and 15 kHz, which are clearly within the audible range of humans.``` for me it feels more like 2kHz-10kHz but clearly they can't (or deliberately avoid) play me some deep bass music.

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
93•yi_wang•3h ago•25 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
39•RebelPotato•2h ago•8 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
241•valyala•11h ago•46 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
154•surprisetalk•10h ago•150 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
186•mellosouls•13h ago•335 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
68•gnufx•9h ago•56 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
12•duxup•54m ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
177•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•32 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
56•swah•4d ago•98 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
164•vinhnx•14h ago•16 comments

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
9•robtherobber•4d ago•2 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
129•samasblack•13h ago•76 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
306•jesperordrup•21h ago•96 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
74•momciloo•11h ago•16 comments

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

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
98•thelok•13h ago•22 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
104•randycupertino•6h ago•223 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
43•chwtutha•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
37•mbitsnbites•3d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer
12•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
571•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
293•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•471 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
134•josephcsible•9h ago•161 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
184•valyala•11h ago•166 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
229•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
900•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
30•languid-photic•4d ago•12 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
146•speckx•4d ago•228 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
145•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
113•zdw•3d ago•56 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
303•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments