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Plugtest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugtest
12•dhorthy•2d ago

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rkangel•2h ago
Similarly the Bluetooth SIG organises "Unplugfests" which are the same, but for a wireless protocol. I attended several back when I was doing Bluetooth stuff full time. You learn a lot about how a very clearly written spec can be interpreted in 5 different ways!
afandian•1h ago
Reminds me of the "USB Cart of Death"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hm3NzLeO8

JohnLocke4•1h ago
This reminds me of a story I read once about how Bell Labs engineers wanted to find the ideal length of a landline telephone chord. They did this by secretly shortening the chord over time on test users' telephones and waited to see how short they could make the chord before they noticed. If the plugtest is hardware-hardware testing Bell Labs engineers were doing human-hardware testing.

I tried to find a source for the story but I couldn't find one. I think I read it in The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, but I can't remember it exactly - maybe I'm misremembering it.

kotaKat•57m ago
Also in the similarly camp: NFL "RF War Games". Everyone running radio gear at the Superbowl all fires up their radios at once to determine who's interfering with who to resolve interference issues before the show.

https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/behind-the-scenes/nfl-eve...

https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/tackling-rf-for-the-sup...

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-e...
1164•sandbach•13h ago•666 comments

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

https://windowsread.me/p/windhawk-explained
24•wild_pointer•1h ago•23 comments

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop
123•ingve•4h ago•53 comments

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
880•ireflect•15h ago•432 comments

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
60•memalign•1h ago•8 comments

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
342•danso•11h ago•206 comments

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo
52•stellastah•3h ago•38 comments

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

https://blog.replit.com/browsers-dont-want-to-be-cameras
64•darshkpatel•2d ago•28 comments

C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c64-putting-sprite-multiplexing-to-work/
18•ibobev•23h ago•0 comments

Simple screw counter

https://mitxela.com/projects/screwcounter
169•jk_tech•2d ago•43 comments

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

https://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agent
447•nicktikhonov•14h ago•129 comments

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer/
36•FrasiertheLion•3h ago•8 comments

How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

https://www.geometrygames.org/HyperbolicBlanket/index.html
5•aebtebeten•2d ago•0 comments

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/buckle-up-for-bumpier-skies
47•littlexsparkee•6h ago•24 comments

DOS Memory Management

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/
62•ingve•2d ago•16 comments

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/24
132•tzury•12h ago•24 comments

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/first-ever-in-utero-stem-cell-therapy-for-fetal-spina-b...
315•gmays•21h ago•58 comments

New iPad Air, powered by M4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/
411•Garbage•22h ago•640 comments

Guilty Displeasures

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/what-are-your-guilty-displeasures
88•aregue•2d ago•86 comments

Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev)

https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/Thomas.html
58•azhenley•1d ago•3 comments

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
2220•km•1d ago•812 comments

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming

102•rohxnsxngh•19h ago•35 comments

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pint-sized-macintosh-pico-micro-mac/
46•ingve•5h ago•12 comments

iPhone 17e

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/
294•meetpateltech•22h ago•430 comments

Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf]

https://andrewvanner.github.io/som/SoM_CC_Process_Day.pdf
91•haunter•13h ago•23 comments

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine
351•zdw•1d ago•103 comments

The Cathode Ray Tube site

https://www.crtsite.com/didactic-crt.html
59•joebig•2d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts

https://govbase.com
197•foxfoxx•19h ago•79 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

220•whoishiring•20h ago•265 comments

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai

https://status.claude.com/incidents/yf48hzysrvl5
170•LostMyLogin•8h ago•139 comments