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Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots
Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement lear...
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 4,805 posts.
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Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user
I've used Macs as my primary computing devices my entire life. And though I continue to use a Mac for my primary workstation for both work and personal projects, my use of computers has evolved in the past few years quite a bit. With more of my stuff moving into the cloud and fewer software applications being…
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Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings
[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ] The best meetings are face-to-face—we can brainstorm openly, collaborate closely and make fa...
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Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors
How I modified DOSBox and the original Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 to run on my immersive multi-display flight simulator set up.
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Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard
The communtiy section for u-he. Makers of creative software synthesizers and effects.
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Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
We gave Codex a foothold. It popped a root shell.
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Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi
The amount of time my outdoor cameras are being set off by light, wind, cars, or anything other than a human is insane. Overly cautious security cameras might be a feature, but an annoying one at that...
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FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
FPGA toolchains are not trivial, but roughly speaking, you can divide the process of “compiling” FPGA-targeted code in a Hardware Description Language
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How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Replacing broken torsion springs on a garage door.
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it’s not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an electric
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Why don't more people use throat mics?
Yes, *that* kind of microphone -- the kind that are most commonly known to be used by employees of the military industrial complex.
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Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...
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mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
Improving the performance of a PC cooling system by writing a custom control loop in Python, and monitoring the results with Grafana.
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Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool
In this article, I document many of the most important changes that the KiCad developers have introduced to KiCad 6, including numerous "under the hood" improvements, and new productivity features in the front end.
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The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly found as a kit with the very excellent full-frame Sigma…
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Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
How I returned a Cricut Maker back to service after Cricut remotely bricked the unit
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show
This post does a deep dive on the **epic goal celebration hack**. In a single sentence, I trained a machine learning model to detect in real-time that a goal was just scored by the Habs based on the live audio feed of a game and to trigger a light show using Philips hues in my living room.
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Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo
Effective next Thursday,...
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Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
A 2016 technical analysis of the 16GB RAM limit in Intel MacBook Pro models, including Phil Schiller’s direct response and two corrections.
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New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Today, on the 59th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US, Canada and Europe. This Kaby Lake-based system co…
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Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely. I’m less concerned with where I sit indoors. Coffee shops / offices with skylights or…
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The Next Backblaze Storage Pod
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on.