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Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

Article URL: https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050512 Points: 17 # Comments: 0

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Technology Jul 25, 2026

Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/05/tiles-security-is-so-bad-its-a-feature-for-stalkers/ Comments URL: ht...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Google basically confirms the Pixel 11 is getting a price hike

Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that ...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Memory Safety Absolutists

Article URL: https://itsallaboutthebit.com/memory-safety-absolutists/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight

SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight. ...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Canada is taking an outsized role in the construction of the post-American world

Article URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-carney-canada-role-post-american-world-trump/ Comments URL...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

The UK MET office recently redesigned their site, adding a lot of additional whitespace, scrolling, and animations. Thi...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window

SpinWin is an open source menu bar app to visually rotate any individual window. You can rotate / spin as many as you w...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading stateme...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Rauno's Field Notes #2

Article URL: https://rauno.me/notes/2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049066 Points: 5 # Comments:...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Amen Break

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049015 Point...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048996 Po...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer

Article URL: https://energiesmedia.com/wind-turbine-stopped-electricity-wind-water-air/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

Article URL: https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-training-on-ro...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

The Dark Night of Mathematics

Article URL: https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/brazilian-farmers-tokenized-dairy-cows-to-get-loans-bypassing-...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

Article URL: https://mohammedshehu.com/checking-for-human-writing-is-daft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has in...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

Article URL: https://karimjedda.com/engineering-management-after-cost-of-code-collapse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musi...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it

Article URL: https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Task-centered iproute2 user guide

Article URL: https://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047884 Points: 3 #...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

Article URL: https://github.com/AncientJames/Scanwheel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047707 Poi...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow,...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)

Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/23/the-silurian-hypothesis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

My web version of Mars MIPS, now have builtin C compiler

Article URL: https://webmars.nfiles.top/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047516 Points: 9 # Commen...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

Article URL: https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Jul 25, 2026

Harddrive Is Probably Full

Article URL: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047449 Point...