On the programming front, I've been working on a little self-hypnosis app for myself that I'll probably go ahead and release. And outside of that I've been finishing up a novella draft.
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#832I'm building an RF monitoring system. It can tell you things like: - The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night. - Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras). - Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises). - Review dev…
Device manufacturers go to a great deal of effort to ensure their devices cannot be identified this way. I'm certain SOME don't have such protection but I would think many do.
Can you say exactly what you can detect with this?
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#834An automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk. There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear. I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a work…
I’d love to crowdfund this.
I’ve been on a hunt for a perfect blank t shirt. After trying 10 different models either the fit or the material is not up to my standard.
I wonder how automatable manufacturing of T-Shirts is. Not sure if it is possible to automate sewing on a collar for example. Plus from what I’ve read a tubular t shirt is worse than front and back sewed at the sides cause it tends to stretch and rotate in one direction with time.
Anyway: continuous knitting is more automatable but introduces limitations just like injection moulding does. But the benefit of having a perfect fit might outweigh those limitations.
What’s your take on all of this?
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#837Wanted to make my life easier as an principal hardware engineer so I would better know about the components that I choose to use in my project.
As I develop something for 10+ years, I need to know when the manufacturer posts errata about it or the component lifecycle is nearing its end.
I have made it simple so I can upload my BOMs and know immediately about the components.
There´s of course a lot of work needed to be done and everything is inefficient but we can already use it in our company, it already has saved us a lot of time and money.
Its called semiconductor.review6 <- 6 added to prevent bots.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#838Spotted a gap at my current company wherein a relatively simple access request (to say, Lovable, Claude or WorkOS) would end up being a dependency on the leadership for 1-2 days, Large corps solve this by deploying a full on HRMS solution, or something like ServiceNow, Azure AD -- but this requires navigating enterprise contracts not only with the HRMS but also every service you use.
I am building an agentic access management platform, where you can simply say "Hey, could you give James access to WorkOS until today?" from any LLM surface (Claude Code, ChatGPT), the platform goes ahead and checks what kind of access SHOULD James have given his department, and role (Product, PM? Viewer; Engineering, SDE-1? Developer; Engineering, SDE-3? Admin) and provides it within an hour. I could speak a lot more about custom policies, roles etc but that's the direction I am taking my product. Working towards a simple phase 1 to deploy at my company.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#839A keyboard-driven flowchart editor. This is a re-incarnation of a previous attempt. I’m still working on autolayout but I’m much happier with this version:
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#840I've started playing with Zork-Bench.[1] I've been making tweaks to the runtime/harness and to the prompting. Currently, I have Qwen3.6-27b scoring up to ~50 points, which, according to the original paper [2], is comparable to the performance Claude Opus 4.5 showed on this task. I had Claude whip up a viewer, which I guess I can actually share. Some real sessions are here, if anyone's interested: https://zork-tmp.taf…
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