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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet oomwoo
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Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs
50 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
67 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
215 points, 49 comments on Hacker News
Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
26 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
65 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You
48 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
I built a 100% local network privacy appliance to stop smart home spying
Article URL: https://www.edgedefenseai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703602 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams
93 points, 55 comments on Hacker News
Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)
43 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C
59 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide
66 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
12 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
22 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance
68 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Walter S. Arnold–Sculptor/Stone Carver
3 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
It's dead, Jim! (UEFI CA expiry)
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Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service
47 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
The Old Computer Challenge
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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
92 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-AA26Cusu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702060 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells
59 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior in mice
Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701984 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC
48 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/meta-wynn-williams-surveillance-gag-order-lawsuit-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701822 Points: 61 # Comments: 11
Should European housing politics be Americanized?
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/should-european-housing-politics-be-americanized/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701766 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
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Stroustrup's Rule (2024)
21 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing the lid forces sleep that stops their AI agents. Some people made snarky comments about using tmux or Amphetamine, and some defended their choice with “but I only need it sometimes, and forgetting to disable Amphetamine and finding my laptop discharged in my bag is worse.” This is a solution to this problem. Unlike caffeinate, it will prevent your MacBook from sleeping even with the lid closed, with no external power or display, using pmset disablesleep 1. Unlike other sleep-preventing apps, Adrafinil only activates when there’s an agent actively doing something. It detects agent activity through hooks it installs into Claude Code, Codex, and others. To reassure you it’s working, the app shows the active status in the menu bar, and it plays a chime when you close the lid. Once the agent is done, Adrafinil detects it and lets the laptop
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