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SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
34•Eridanus2•1h ago•15 comments

Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
109•speckx•2d ago•80 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
310•rbanffy•13h ago•134 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
77•mfiguiere•1d ago•18 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
519•anabranch•17h ago•509 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
281•gnabgib•15h ago•272 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
335•NelsonMinar•17h ago•91 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
82•tyleo•2d ago•32 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
412•RickJWagner•21h ago•377 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

https://vlad.website/binary-dependencies-identifying-the-hidden-packages-we-all-depend-on/
19•PaulHoule•2d ago•2 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702
62•nobody9999•2h ago•5 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
53•signa11•7h ago•12 comments

SI Units for Request Rate (2024)

https://entropicthoughts.com/si-units-for-request-rate
70•fanf2•3d ago•45 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
401•f_r_d•22h ago•123 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
157•larve•3d ago•18 comments

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

https://abacusnoir.com/2026/04/18/zero-copy-gpu-inference-from-webassembly-on-apple-silicon/
82•agambrahma•11h ago•31 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
781•yusufusta•20h ago•394 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
101•weaksauce•13h ago•36 comments

Metatextual Literacy

https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
30•dado3212•3d ago•3 comments

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-onc...
26•bookofjoe•2d ago•12 comments

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
8•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

William Cecil's Succession Plan

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/william-cecils-succession-plan
6•Petiver•4d ago•0 comments

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
307•cdrnsf•14h ago•197 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
215•Lwrless•3d ago•11 comments

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

https://github.com/riyaneel/Tachyon/tree/main/docs/adr
43•riyaneel•2d ago•20 comments

Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv
115•drasim•18h ago•43 comments

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

https://blog.marcoinacio.com/posts/my-first-impressions-rocm-strix-halo/
44•random_•12h ago•34 comments

Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260414075641.htm
105•t-3•3d ago•38 comments

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-...
175•sohkamyung•10h ago•78 comments

Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/08/28/understanding-the-fft/
93•peter_d_sherman•4d ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/duobell/
11•mccolly•2d ago

Comments

4ggr0•2d ago
previous post about this from 8 days ago with over 600 points and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248
taspeotis•2d ago
It’s actually the second one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248
vie00001•2d ago
Isn’t that the same one?
terabytest•2d ago
Are they selling this anywhere or is it just a marketing gimmick?
Toutouxc•2d ago
Interesting idea but I don’t like this:

> More pedestrians than ever use ANC headphones.

> Car horns get through, but bike bells get blocked. Leading to a rise in cyclist / pedestrian collisions.

Either you’re talking about using the bell to avoid an imminent collision, like you would use the horn in a car, which is both kind of hard to do (ring a bell while braking hard) and doesn’t fit the “5 seconds” timeframe.

Or you’re talking about just announcing your presence to the headphone user, which doesn’t give you the right to endanger them in any way, so if they don’t hear you and you crash into them, it’s almost entirely your fault for not slowing down and/or making a wider circle around them. If ANC headphones are leading to more collisions, it’s mostly an infrastructure problem and a people problem, not a headphones problem.

calyth2018•1d ago
It is absolutely a people problem just as much as it's an infrastructure problem.

We call them multi-use path (MUP) here. It has a yellow line painted straight down the middle, and people, whether they're walking, running, riding a bike, rollerblading, are expected to stick to their side of the path.

I've lost count on the amount of people on the MUPs wearing something that removes their situational awareness, be it ANC earbuds, or over the ear headphones, etc...

So why did I bring up the lane division? Because on top of people choosing to completely occlude themselves from their surroundings, a subset of them also like to walk/run/etc... abreast, completely taking up the path on both sides. So if you come up behind them, and they're taking up the whole path, you can't get around them without ringing a bell, or asking them. And if they're very engrossed in their conversation, or they're wearing headphones, it's even harder...

The point of a MUP is to share the path. It doesn't give a right for any kind of users to practically occupy the path, and then act very offended when you finally got their attention to get around them.

It has got to the point that I rather bike down the MUPs in the rain, because these users with no etiquette aren't dedicated enough to be out there in the rain.

stvltvs•1d ago
The root problem is forcing or allowing cyclists and pedestrians to use the same spaces. Traffic must be segregated by speed.
rich_sasha•1d ago
There's a third use: alerting pedestrians who are in dedicated cycle lanes and letting them know they need to get out of the way. Not because you'd mow them down otherwise but because someone else might.

Separation of traffic into cars, bikes and legs is great, whenever possible. Just as a car shouldn't mow down a pedestrian in the road, the bike shouldn't mow down the pedestrian in a cycle lane. Doesn't mean the pedestrian shouldn't get out of the way when they're in the wrong lane.