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Make Your Own Microforest
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Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London
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Why TUIs Are Back
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Talking to Transformers
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Show HN: Ableton Live MCP
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BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
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I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]
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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
2026-05-03 @ 17:05:58Points: 140Comments: 53
Southwest Headquarters Tour
2026-05-03 @ 17:02:13Points: 140Comments: 26
After years of flying Southwest, I recently had the opportunity to tour the headquarters in Dallas. I particularly enjoyed seeing the full-motion 737 simulators, Network Operations Center, and TechOps maintenance hangar up close.
Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
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Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
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Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
2026-05-03 @ 16:15:49Points: 66Comments: 5
A desktop made for one
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Security through obscurity is not bad
2026-05-03 @ 14:49:56Points: 92Comments: 93
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
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Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)
2026-05-03 @ 14:02:33Points: 36Comments: 8
Alert-driven monitoring
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Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
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Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
2026-05-03 @ 09:14:56Points: 143Comments: 37
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP.
What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on a recent Mac.
Caveats: SHARP's released weights are research-use only (Apple's model license, not the code's). I host the exported ONNX on R2 so thedemo "just works", but you can also export your own from the upstream Apple repo and upload locally.
Happy to talk about it in the comments :)