Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy
Archaeologists in northeastern Kazakhstan have discovered a remarkable artifacts point to an industrial zone within the settlement for copper and tin processing. Although small-scale workshops have been reported elsewhere in Central Asia, nothing on this scale or level of organization has previously been recorded in this part of Kazakhstan. The position of the settlement not […]
Pivot Robotics (YC W24) Is Hiring for an Industrial Automation Hardware Engineer
Pivot Robots (YC W24) is building the AI brain for robot arms for high-mix manufacturing. Pivot Robots combines off-the-shelf robots and vision sensors with recent breakthroughs in foundation vision models to give industrial robot arms the power to adapt. Our first product directly addresses the dangerous and unpopular task of grinding metal parts. Currently, our […]
You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
I recently discovered that you could make PS2 games in JavaScript. I’m not even kidding, it’s actually possible. I was working on a project and had my phone near my desk when I received a notification. Upon further inspection, it came from itch.io which was a platform where I usually published most of my web […]
Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
See how your investments stack up, all in one place. Compare your accounts side by side, check if you are beating the S&P 500, and track your favorite ETFs without the hassle. No fancy jargon – just clear, useful charts that help you understand how your money is really doing.
How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT?
A long time ago, somebody asked, “How did the new Windows 95 user interface get brought to the Windows NT code base? The development of Windows 95 lined up with the endgame of Windows NT 3.1, so how did the finished Windows 95 code get brought to the Windows NT code base for Windows NT […]
Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
Six weeks ago, Qualcomm acquired Arduino. The maker community immediately worried that Qualcomm would kill the open-source ethos that made Arduino the lingua franca of hobby electronics. This week, Arduino published updated terms and conditions and a new privacy policy, clearly rewritten by Qualcomm’s lawyers. The changes confirm the community’s worst fears: Arduino is no […]
XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
A Major Modernization of the Killer App That Started It All A new version of Xbox Media Center (XBMC), version 4.0, has been released. This version marks a significant update to the long-standing media center platform for the Original Xbox. This marks the first major advancement to the software since 2016 and represents a renewed commitment to […]
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
We should all be using dependency cooldowns Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Nov 21, 2025 Tags: oss, security TL;DR: Dependency cooldowns are a free, easy, and incredibly effective way to mitigate the large majority of open source supply chain attacks. More individual projects should apply cooldowns (via tools like Dependabot and Renovate) to […]
Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch
Tip or TLDR – I built a tiny, zero dependency armv7 userspace emulator in Rust I wrote a minimal viable armv7 emulator in 1.3k lines of Rust without any dependencies. It parses and validates a 32-bit arm binary, maps its segments, decodes a subset of arm instructions, translates guest and host memory interactions and forwards […]
EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn’t used for image-orientation
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