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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

Hacker News Top · 3d ago Cached

The article details the author's project of hosting a Telnet Bulletin Board System on a Casio VX-4 calculator, using BASIC programming and RS232 serial communication, sparked by their interest in amateur radio.

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Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes

Hacker News Top · 4d ago Cached

A guide on repairing the Nikon F100 film camera, covering documentation, tools, common parts issues, and tips to avoid damage during repair.

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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737

Wired · 2026-08-12 Cached

Researchers from UC San Diego and Oberlin College demonstrate a $100 coin-sized device that physically plugs into a Boeing 737's external port, letting attackers hijack the autopilot and spoof sensor readings, potentially causing crashes or diversions. The work is presented at the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference.

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3G at last

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-08-09 Cached

A networking enthusiast documents the process of hacking an old AT&T 3G femtocell to broadcast UMTS using JTAG, soldering, and open-source Osmocom tools.

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Assembly Hall of Shame

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-07 Cached

The Assembly Hall of Shame is a GitHub project that ranks the slowest possible single x86 instructions by exploiting hardware quirks such as MMIO latency and microcode assists, achieving extreme latencies like a 62-second fxrstor64.

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Can you make a Wii U gamepad from a Raspberry Pi?

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-08-02 Cached

A detailed technical recap of attempts to turn a Raspberry Pi into a Wii U gamepad clone, highlighting Wi-Fi chipset compatibility issues and finding that an Orange Pi Zero 2W works surprisingly better.

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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-02 Cached

A detailed walkthrough of rooting a TP-Link TL-841N router via UART, dumping firmware through two methods, and uncovering hardcoded credentials that persist even after a factory reset, highlighting common IoT security weaknesses.

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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-31 Cached

A talk from EMF 2026 about using an industrial linear camera pointed out a train window to create extremely wide panoramic photos, covering technical challenges like speed measurement, fast line capture, and stitching/displaying huge images.

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I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-07-28 Cached

A developer designed a custom PCB with an ATtiny85 to automate a night light button press, resolving the issue of the light always starting at maximum brightness.

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One Ring to Rule Them All: Wiring Radios to Laptops the Hard Way

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-07-28 Cached

A technical blog post from Lysk detailing the challenges and history of connecting military radios to laptops using audio cables, with a focus on jack connector standards and signal properties.

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Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-09 Cached

Article describes a counterintuitive oscillator circuit using a reversed NPN transistor with no base connection, which works via reverse avalanche breakdown.

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Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-05 Cached

A detailed guide on diagnosing and fixing analog audio noise issues on an ultra-cheap HDMI-to-VGA adapter, involving impedance analysis, filtering, and PCB rework.

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DIY RISC-V ultracluster

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-07-04 Cached

A hardware enthusiast built an immersion-cooled supercluster using 8192 RISC-V microcontrollers (CH570) and shared their challenges and solutions regarding clock, SPI signals, and production capacity.

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IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-27 Cached

This project reverse engineers IBM's MCGA gate arrays used in PS/2 models 25 and 30, revealing detailed schematics and new features such as genlock capability and undocumented registers.

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Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-13 Cached

A developer documents their journey of writing a custom x86 BIOS from scratch to boot DOS on a Behringer DDX3216 mixing console, which uses an AMD Elan SC300 386 SoC.

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ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-05 Cached

ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns an ESP32 into a multi-protocol hacking tool, supporting sniffing and interaction with various digital and radio protocols via serial or web-based CLI.

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Project Blackwell: It Will Work, Eventually — Making an RTX Pro 6000 Run in a Dell R730 at 650K Context

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 2026-05-30

A developer documents the extensive hardware and firmware hacking required to run an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU in a legacy Dell PowerEdge R730 server, achieving 650K context length for local AI inference.

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Patching my guitar amp's firmware

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-29 Cached

The author reverse engineers a Yamaha THR10c guitar amp firmware via UART and JTAG, dumps and patches it to fix bypass gain, and builds an API.

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@bunkaich: The limit of my inspiration = the limit of Codex. It's that seriously amazing—Codex can do absolutely anything. This is…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-05-26 Cached

A user used OpenAI's Codex to reverse-engineer and fix a faulty AliExpress MP3 player, rewriting its OS to resolve Bluetooth audio stuttering and improve controls.

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Found a way to cool the DGX

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 2026-05-12

A user reports successfully using tap water to cool a DGX server while running the Qwen3.5-122b model at high GPU utilization, maintaining safe temperatures.

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