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Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

https://spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica

13•oldnetguy•1d ago

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Matterless•59m ago

Their Eniac clone is cool and all, but this guy himself is just amazing.

Animats•52m ago

The idea for the company came when Burick was building a “white box” PC from standard, off-the-shelf components, and realized there was no comparable product for robotics. ... They sold about 200 robots in 17 countries, Burick says.

Yup. There's no volume in hobbyist robot kits.

pkphilip•44m ago

Wow! I am sure the kids are totally kicked and will remember this for the rest of their lives!

We need many more of these sorts of projects - for kids as well as adults

ginkgotree•29m ago

This is a pretty great flex. Because it's awesome.

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/

513•the-mitr•13h ago•171 comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10

440•ori_b•13h ago•336 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously

254•ilamont•1d ago•137 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/

363•j12y•13h ago•124 comments

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/

59•herbertl•2d ago•42 comments

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle

573•Cider9986•9h ago•222 comments

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/

49•graiz•2d ago•37 comments

Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

https://spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica

13•oldnetguy•1d ago•4 comments

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-auth...

75•zikani_03•7h ago•20 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/

248•elvis70•12h ago•52 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

1058•elmean•15h ago•587 comments

How an oil refinery works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works

377•chmaynard•15h ago•116 comments

Reverse Engineering SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower

168•patrickhulin•2d ago•29 comments

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

https://wideluxx.com

113•armadsen•2d ago•53 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/

285•vok•3d ago•132 comments

OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev

57•zero-lab•3h ago•57 comments

Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx

57•kernalix7•3h ago•27 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/

785•mpweiher•17h ago•760 comments

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html

63•wglb•7h ago•11 comments

Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

https://honker.dev/

199•ferriswil•15h ago•52 comments

The Hearts of the Super Nintendo

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_hearts/

20•droppedasbaby•3h ago•2 comments

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html

111•ethagnawl•11h ago•28 comments

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did

176•gpjt•1d ago•124 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/

7•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•0 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com

270•scarsam•17h ago•75 comments

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres

110•KraftyOne•11h ago•54 comments

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill

78•Sir_Twist•2d ago•5 comments

Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

https://dustri.org/b/follow-up-to-carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html

57•homebrewer•10h ago•8 comments

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blo...

445•akyuu•14h ago•182 comments

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/

285•steveharing1•19h ago•178 comments