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How I built a mmWave material classification radar

How I built a mmWave material classification radar

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 2025 ยท [radar, rf, dsp, embedded, beamforming, startup] the prototype โ€” IWRL6432 + ESP32 inside the casing Software is now a commodity thanks to Claude Code. So the next step is obviously hardware. I spent the last 6 months on building a hardware startup, which was fucking hard. I made a radar that could classify materials, and this is the story of how I did it as my "end of studies" project. By the way, the project never ended (as you will see down this…
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UK ‘considers’ intervening in Paramount’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Mergers and Acquisitions

UK ‘considers’ intervening in Paramount’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Mergers and Acquisitions

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Mergers and acquisitions,Regulators,Ofcom,Competition and Markets Authority,Television industry,Media,Business,UK news,US news,World news,TV streaming,Paramount+,Paramount Pictures,Warner Bros,Television & radio,Film,Culture,Lisa Nandy,Politics ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy intends to ask British media and competition watchdogs to examine Paramount's $110 billion (ยฃ85 billion) takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.The WBD acquisition will create a media powerhouse that controls assets ranging from: Hollywood studios that produce franchises including Superman, Batman and Top Gun; UK Channel 5; CNN News Channel; TNT Sports, which broadcasts the Champions League, Premier League and Olympics; and…
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Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Just hit this today and I'm furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had.I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other…
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Waldmรผller: Landscape Review โ€“ The rule-breaking radical whose โ€œgentle fingersโ€ drove bourgeois Austria crazy | coloring

Waldmรผller: Landscape Review โ€“ The rule-breaking radical whose โ€œgentle fingersโ€ drove bourgeois Austria crazy | coloring

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: FErdinand Georg Waldmรผller (1793-1865) is considered one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Austrian art. An influential and impressive teacher, and a somewhat radical figure in relation to the established Vienna Academy. He worked during the Biedermeier Movement which extended from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until 1848 when various revolutions shook the ruling Habsburg Empire and the Austrian political elite. Biedermeier reflects the tastes and aspirations of the rising bourgeois society. Very beautiful landscapes, genre scenes,…
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 \ Anthropic

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 \ Anthropic

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet. It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that, just a few months ago, required larger and more expensive models.For many developers, the agentic AI era began with Sonnet-class models: Claude Sonnet 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 were the first models that showed impressive skills in coding and tool use. More recently, though, the clearest gains in agentic capabilities have been in our Opus-class models.Sonnet…
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Blake Lively seeks $8 million in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio | Blake Lively

Blake Lively seeks $8 million in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio | Blake Lively

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Blake Lively,Film,Culture,US news,US crime,Law (US) โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Blake Lively has filed for $8 million in fees and costs, which she says stem from her fight against Justin Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios.This figure is intended to cover the legal costs Lively incurred from January to June 2025 in her battle against her director and co-star in the 2024 film It Ends With Us, as well as a damages petition that was still pending when Lively v Baldoni was settled in May 2026.In January 2025,…
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Claude Science beta | Claude by Anthropic

Claude Science beta | Claude by Anthropic

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: General AI assistants can discuss biology, but they canโ€™t run a pipeline, navigate scientific databases, orchestrate cluster jobs, or keep track of what happened in a previous session. Claude Science manages compute environments per specialist, and saves full provenance on every result. The app ships with analysis specialists for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, and more. It can connect natively to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models. Claude Science uses the skills in NVIDIAโ€™s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to connect natively to the life…
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Minions & Monsters Review โ€“ Clever premise that descends into more of the same | Animation in the movie

Minions & Monsters Review โ€“ Clever premise that descends into more of the same | Animation in the movie

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Animation in film,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture,Action and adventure films,Film,Minions ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThe overall-suited, cylindrical yellow creatures known as Minions first appeared as loyal henchmen of Steve Carell's evil Gru in Illumination's Despicable Me, which chronicled Gru's attempt to steal the moon with the help of three orphan girls. Along the way, Gru learned affection, the girls grew up, and the Minions โ€” well, the Minions always stay the same. They are cute, defenseless, and incompetent. They speak โ€œMinionese,โ€ a nonsense mixture of endless languages โ€‹โ€‹spoken by…
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to โ€˜Conserve Electricityโ€™

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to โ€˜Conserve Electricityโ€™

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. โ€œBeginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically โ€” by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next fiscal year. We anticipate more rate increases for electricity in the years ahead,โ€ a copy of the email obtained by 404 Media said (emphasis…
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โ€œI’m not quitting!โ€ Rubรฉn Blades, the salsa player who performed with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny โ€“ and served as Panama’s tourism minister | music

โ€œI’m not quitting!โ€ Rubรฉn Blades, the salsa player who performed with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny โ€“ and served as Panama’s tourism minister | music

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Dance music,Culture,Film,Television,Television & radio,Panama ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œWโ€œWell, I was there,โ€ says Robin Blades accurately. One of the most influential Latin musicians of the past half-century, the 77-year-old Panamanian singer-songwriter has been a definite force in salsa, collecting 25 Grammy Awards โ€” 13 Latin, 12 major โ€” and garnering compliments from a new generation including Rosalรญa and Bad Bunny.Blades moved between music, law, politics, and film as if they were all part of the same conversation. He has a law degree from Harvard…
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