Git commands I run before reading any code

Veracrypt project update

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

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Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates

They're made out of meat (1991)

ML promises to be profoundly weird

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

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Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

I&#x27;m looking for something novel and interesting, that isn&#x27;t absolutely crowded that I could meaningfully contribute to.In 2022 I was toying around with OpenAI&#x27;s RL Gym, right when the first non-instruct GPT3 model came out. I was thinking about getting into ML a lot more, but hesitated.
Before that it was 3D printers, mechanical keyboards, drones, etc.
All of these have exploded, and while they are still very interesting, I do love my Browns and manage Prusas for my local hackerspace, they have just, for the lack of a better term, industrialized.
I&#x27;m also now in a position where I have time and money for it, not like when I was 15 and rating Ender motherboard upgrades I knew I&#x27;d never buy.Right now I&#x27;m making a chess engine, but that&#x27;s already a solved problem.
There&#x27;s also biohacking, and while designing chips to go into my body is really interesting, I only have one, and don&#x27;t want to push it too far.
One promising idea is a kind of &#x27;Personal Computer 2&#x27;, where people try to innovate HCI, and while I really like that and do have some research ideas, I&#x27;d like to explore a bit more before delving deep into it.

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

Union types in C# 15

I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn&#x27;t fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I&#x27;d share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share!Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just copied the json from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marinetraffic.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;ais&#x2F;home&#x2F;centerx:57.4&#x2F;centery:26.4&#x2F;zoom:8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marinetraffic.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;ais&#x2F;home&#x2F;centerx:57.4&#x2F;cente...</a> I&#x27;ll probably have an ai agent do the same thing on some cron interval, if this gets any fanfare.To actually know if the port is open without live ship tracking I found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portwatch.imf.org&#x2F;pages&#x2F;cb5856222a5b4105adc6ee7e880a1730" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portwatch.imf.org&#x2F;pages&#x2F;cb5856222a5b4105adc6ee7e880a...</a> which was perfect, except it has 4 day lag!I also thought of adding news feed parsing or prediction market data to get a more definitive answer on if it&#x27;s open right when you load it, but I spent a few hours and am gonna move on for now.

Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement