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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/
45•cdrnsf•51m ago•12 comments

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
181•thomascountz•5h ago•67 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

80•david927•5h ago•254 comments

JSDoc is TypeScript

https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/
31•culi•2h ago•37 comments

Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)

https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work/
30•CharlesW•2h ago•26 comments

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

https://www.typeframe.net/
76•birdculture•4h ago•20 comments

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developing-hardwax-oil/
90•alin23•4d ago•44 comments

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
40•wseqyrku•6d ago•14 comments

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
187•BinaryIgor•8h ago•74 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
150•nkko•11h ago•90 comments

GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over

https://johnjames.blog/posts/graphql-the-enterprise-honeymoon-is-over
121•johnjames4214•4h ago•93 comments

Advent of Swift

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/12/advent-of-swift.html
14•chmaynard•1h ago•4 comments

Disk can lie to you when you write to it

https://blog.canoozie.net/disks-lie-building-a-wal-that-actually-survives/
25•jtregunna•2d ago•13 comments

GNU recutils: Plain text database

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
44•polyrand•2h ago•9 comments

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
44•teleforce•5h ago•8 comments

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

https://abseil.io/fast/99
48•ckennelly•6h ago•4 comments

Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline

https://github.com/Jordan-Townsend/Standalone
34•Subtextofficial•5d ago•8 comments

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
326•pizlonator•22h ago•128 comments

Baumol's Cost Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
52•drra•9h ago•60 comments

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

https://boringsql.com/posts/vacuum-is-lie/
68•birdculture•8h ago•38 comments

Stop crawling my HTML – use the API

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
100•edent•3h ago•101 comments

Compiler Engineering in Practice

https://chisophugis.github.io/2025/12/08/compiler-engineering-in-practice-part-1-what-is-a-compil...
89•dhruv3006•14h ago•15 comments

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/ios-26-2-security-vulnerabilities/
95•akyuu•5h ago•80 comments

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020)

https://blog.jafma.net/2020/02/24/efficient-basic-coding-for-the-zx-spectrum/
42•rcarmo•9h ago•10 comments

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/115651419771418748
137•ColinWright•8h ago•120 comments

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1943723599971443134
175•jeudesprits•8h ago•88 comments

Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
243•yolkedgeek•5d ago•90 comments

Getting into Public Speaking

https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking
86•jbrooksuk•4d ago•33 comments

More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/weather/washington-west-coast-flooding-atmospheric-rivers-climate
34•Bender•3h ago•8 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
276•zdw•1d ago•111 comments
Open in hackernews

Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline

https://github.com/Jordan-Townsend/Standalone
34•Subtextofficial•5d ago

Comments

Subtextofficial•5d ago
I built a standalone, offline-first command center for Meshtastic mesh networks that runs entirely inside a single HTML file. There’s no backend, no installation, and no internet connection required. It works on laptops, tablets, phones, and some smartwatches using only native browser APIs.

Key Features

One self-contained HTML file (51KB)

Works fully offline (PWA)

Connects via Bluetooth, WiFi, or USB Serial

Real-time map of all mesh nodes

Metrics: RSSI, SNR, hop count, routing details

Message console + logs

No frameworks, no build tools, no cloud services

Why I built it Existing tools rely on mobile apps or desktop programs that depend on OS permissions, cloud APIs, or network access. For emergency communications, off-grid operations, research teams, and field deployments, I wanted a universal interface that would work anywhere, on any device, under any conditions.

Looking for feedback on:

Hardware compatibility (especially T-Watch S3, RAK, Heltec)

Browser behavior across different platforms

Missing features you’d like to see

Ideas for v2 and beyond

This is still early, and feedback is very welcome. Thanks for taking a look.

— Jordan Townsend

jon9544hn•2h ago
So sick! Congrats!
xyzzy_plugh•1h ago
Maybe I'm missing something but it's not a self contained file if it has external imports. It appears to be using unpkg CDN for CSS and JS. There's also multiple files, no license file, a server in python (???) and many, many indications that this is just AI slop.
yorwba•1h ago
Yeah...

  // Parse Meshtastic protobuf data here
  // This is a simplified example - actual implementation needs protobuf parsing
  console.log('Received BLE data:', data);
Uhhrrr•1h ago
If it works despite being a mess, I think there should be a somewhat less protective term than slop. Goulash?
semanticist•15m ago
There’s no reason to think this works fine given the readme mentions the author is waiting on their first meshtastic device to test against and the install instructions include ‘insert download link here’.

It’s a shame this is just slop, an approach like this could be interesting, using web APIs instead of native apps… but iOS Safari doesn’t support Web Bluetooth so it’s not going to work on iPhones at all which is a big unmentioned limitation.

Probably because it’s untested AI slop.

exabrial•50m ago
Tangential: Is there a commercial hand-held waterproof (ip67) enclosure for the RAK4631? Tons of 3d prints, only a handful of submergible designs, and while I'm thankful for those authors, there really isn't anything that could take a serious dunk that I've found.
lakid•40m ago
https://store.rakwireless.com/products/wismesh-pocket Gah not IP67