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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
142•theblazehen•2d ago•42 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
668•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
949•xnx•19h ago•551 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
122•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
53•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
229•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
16•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
223•dmpetrov•14h ago•117 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
27•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
330•vecti•16h ago•143 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
494•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
381•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
288•eljojo•17h ago•169 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
412•lstoll•20h ago•278 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
19•bikenaga•3d ago•4 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•6 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
90•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
256•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
32•romes•4d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
43•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
12•speckx•3d ago•4 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
59•gfortaine•12h ago•25 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
33•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1066•cdrnsf•23h ago•446 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•67 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
149•SerCe•10h ago•138 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
183•limoce•3d ago•98 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32

https://exquisite.tube/w/mEzF442Q4hUXnhQ8HmfZuq
155•todsacerdoti•1mo ago

Comments

swaits•1mo ago
This unlocks some really nice stuff in the future!
victorbjorklund•1mo ago
Like what?
avidiax•1mo ago
Custom protocols (maybe LORA), smart jamming, security research, support or partial support for newer Bluetooth protocols.
kgarten•1mo ago
Why not link to the official recording ?

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp3...

gnabgib•1mo ago
The bot posts what @bsandro posted on lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/n7u47v/liberating_bluetooth_on_esp32
bmitch3020•1mo ago
C3 also pushes to YouTube: https://youtu.be/q-_YVIIrF6A
NooneAtAll3•1mo ago
I for one am surprised that ESP32 hasn't been reverse engineered much earlier, judging by its popularity
NoiseBert69•1mo ago
Not much need for reverse engineering - with the exception of the radio blobs.

ESP-IDF is a bright stars when it comes to opensource HALs in the microcontroller world.

cracki•1mo ago
The ESP32 is quite open, by the company, not by RE efforts. If you were under the impression that community RE was to praise for its usability, then you must be thinking of the ESP8266 or what came before it, not the ESP32.

This video is not about the entire ESP32 either.

This video is about one of the ESP32's radio functions, Bluetooth.

Espressif keeps their radio stuff closed for some reason. It might be due to licensing (if they bought parts of the radio), govt regulations of some countries mandating that users can't abuse the radio, or maybe it's trade secrets they want to keep secret to keep an edge on the market.

You don't appear to know much about the ESP32 and its ecosystem. You should, if you are at all interested in electronics, microcontrollers, or "Internet of Things".

NooneAtAll3•1mo ago
> If you were under the impression that community RE was to praise for its usability

no, it's you are under some impression you imagined that came from misreading what I wrote

I'm saying "if something is popular, one would expect everything to be scrutinized already, just due to popularity".

"binary blob in the middle of open source" is doubly intriguing target that's weird that it took so long to attract attention

vollbrecht•1mo ago
I don't think its a lag of attraction. If you interested in it, you quickly will realize how much of a behemoth that task really is.

First you have to limit yourself to a specific radio variant, because the actual radio hardware is different on different esp32 variants.

Then you have a massive amount of things this "blobs" actually contain.

And last there is also a lot of continues movement integrating newer radio features. E.g newer BLE version standard implementation and so forth. So you play catch with actual new development.

mschuster91•1mo ago
> govt regulations of some countries mandating that users can't abuse the radio

This. The FCC is a bunch of morons...

amelius•1mo ago
Meanwhile I still cannot get Bluetooth audio to work on my Linux workstation. I tried 3 different Chinese USB sticks already and asked ChatGPT for help. Maybe I should give up and try some more expensive brands. But keep in mind that ESP32 is also of Chinese origin.
tedivm•1mo ago
This is such a weird comment. You can find things in the US where there are cheap versions that don't work and more expensive versions that do work. Going out of your way to by less expensive things and then blaming the Chinese on the quality, rather than your cheapness, is really a decision.

From personal experience, I've got dozens of esp32 devices around my house and they all work great.

immibis•1mo ago
Not to mention that Bluetooth on Linux is questionable to begin with.
estimator7292•1mo ago
Linux has the best Bluetooth stack of any of the current three operating systems. Which is kind of a depressing statement, but it's actually feature complete.

You really don't want to know just how bad Windows' Bluetooth stack is. It doesn't even implement basic features. I would hesitate to call it a compliant implementation at all. Oh, the API call for all BT features exist, but they either do nothing, return garbage and lies, or are just broken.

If you use a well supported BT adapter under the right Linux distro, it's flawless.

amelius•1mo ago
No, your comment is weird because I explicitly said that country of origin has nothing to do with it because ESP32 is of the same origin.

If anything is to blame it is the Bluetooth protocol and the fact that it is apparently hard to implement correctly.

estimator7292•1mo ago
Your comment is asseting that all of the world's most populous country is a single monolithic entity that produces crap except for this one thing (that is probably also suspicious because it's Chinese)

You're deflecting blame for your shitty decisions onto a racist strawman.

Buy a good Bluetooth adapter which is actively supported by the Linux kernel. Do 20 minutes of research instead of buying the cheapest thing you can and then spouting racist bullshit to post-hoc justify yourself.

If you take a few moments to think about what you're doing, you can get Bluetooth working flawlessly by simply buying the correct adapter. And you don't have to be a racist xenophobe about it.

amelius•1mo ago
You are reading things that aren't there.
artificialLimbs•1mo ago
There was literally nothing racist in this whole sub thread.
hurricanepootis•1mo ago
Make sure you're using pipewire. If your bluetooth headphones require Bluetooth LE, make sure it's enabled in the bluez settings. Also, make sure your bluetooth adapter supports Bluetooth LE.
The_President•1mo ago
Try the TP Link UB500 Plus (UPC 810142823098) - Excellent range; best performance achieved with a few feet of USB extension cable between the dongle and the computer.

However Bluetooth on Linux is indeed currently irritatingly borked when it does decide to not work. The UB500 is plug and play on Linux.