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Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker
2026-11-15 @ 18:36:40Points: 7Comments: 3
Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests
2026-11-15 @ 18:36:10Points: 37Comments: 8
A short explainer on how El Niño works [video]
2026-11-15 @ 18:23:21Points: 39Comments: 2
'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can
2026-11-15 @ 17:53:31Points: 30Comments: 19
Emacs Is My Browser
2026-11-15 @ 15:21:21Points: 105Comments: 56
All AI-generated code should be Open Source
2026-11-15 @ 14:46:58Points: 796Comments: 419
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 483 (I'm Not a Freezer)
2026-11-15 @ 14:31:52Points: 72Comments: 37
Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS
2026-11-15 @ 13:50:51Points: 20Comments: 5
Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
2026-11-15 @ 13:44:16Points: 136Comments: 64
The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use
2026-11-15 @ 13:15:22Points: 290Comments: 166
A NES emulator written in Odin
2026-11-15 @ 12:51:47Points: 77Comments: 24
Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs
2026-11-15 @ 12:14:06Points: 145Comments: 6
Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business
2026-11-15 @ 11:40:51Points: 337Comments: 146
Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?
2026-11-15 @ 09:06:43Points: 181Comments: 126
Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case
2026-11-15 @ 01:18:36Points: 430Comments: 201
The Telephone Changed the World
2026-11-14 @ 22:56:09Points: 41Comments: 15
How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
2026-11-14 @ 22:22:49Points: 293Comments: 150
SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
2026-11-14 @ 21:22:24Points: 1549Comments: 1086
A family tree of software job titles
2026-11-14 @ 17:45:19Points: 418Comments: 197
Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages
2026-11-14 @ 17:43:10Points: 960Comments: 368
Semicircle Packing
2026-11-13 @ 14:42:57Points: 93Comments: 9
Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons
2026-11-13 @ 12:00:18Points: 57Comments: 2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930439), I wanted to see how low I could go. My latest clock is built mainly from empty drink cartons, plus a few skewers, some paper straws, a piece of string, some nuts as weights, and lots of hot glue. It has a pendulum, an escapement, and hands for seconds, minutes, and hours, and runs for about an hour.
The design of the gears and escapement was AI-assisted: Claude built me interactive browser tools that generate templates and 3D-printable jigs and tools.
I’m happy to answer your questions! And to the commenter who suggested I submit trash clock timekeeping as a talk to 40C3: I did, and it got accepted. CU at Congress, I guess!?