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USB IR Transceiver | Iguanaworks (now out of business)

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: USB device to send and receive IR: have your computer send IR signals to your DVR; receive IR signals from a remote control. Works under Linux and Windows. Our standard USB IR Transceiver can send and receive infra-red (IR) signals. It comes in 3 different variations. Common to all versions: Receive Standard 38 kHz IR Signals Transmit IR Codes at (25 – 125 kHz carrier frequency) USB device works under Linux and Windows The difference between the three version are how IR is transmitted…

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Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: While Linux has long been associated with lightweight performance and breathing life into aging machines, Canonical’s release notes for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS signal a clear evolution towards modern computing workloads. The company is quietly bumping its minimum memory requirements for the Linux distro—a widely-used open-source operating system and a beginner-friendly gateway into the Linux world. Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough A slow climb from 1GB to 6GB The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS code named ‘Resolute Raccoon’ raises the baseline memory to…

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The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Imagine you're a new assistant professor at a research university. You just got the job, you just got a small pot of startup funding, and you just hired your first two PhD students: Alice and Bob. You're in astrophysics. This is the beginning of everything. You do what your supervisor did for you, years ago: you give each of them a well-defined project. Something you know is solvable, because other people have solved adjacent versions of it. Something that would take you, personally, about a…

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JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman · GitHub

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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: why use many token when few token do trick Install • Before/After • Why A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman — cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy. Based on the viral observation that caveman-speak dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing technical substance. So we made it a one-line install. 🗣️ Normal Claude (69 tokens) "The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you…

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Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: The Grief & Relief after Leaving Social Media 

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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “A chestnut rolls past me in the garden. I follow it with my eyes. It stops, staying put, looking like a small carapace. Determined to prevent anyone from entering, I take a step forward. Stretch out my hand, but hesitate. If I want to reach the fruit, it will prick me. Leave it be. I’ll not harm it. Yet I know that sometime its protective casing will crack. The husk lying there is just an advance guard. If the chestnut is to become a tree,…

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MidstallSoftware/aegis: Open source FPGA silicon · GitHub

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Aegis is a fully open-source FPGA, from the silicon up. Existing open-source FPGA efforts either reverse-engineer proprietary architectures (Project IceStorm, Apicula) or build tooling around closed silicon (Yosys, nextpnr). The silicon itself has always been proprietary. Aegis starts at the other end: the fabric design is open, the toolchain is open, and the path to real silicon goes through open PDKs and shuttle services like wafer.space. The project generates parameterized FPGA devices with LUT4, BRAM, DSP, SerDes, and clock management tiles, along with everything needed…

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PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 · GitHub

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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (with decent Windows 9x support) This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence the VBE in the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels. Issue templates were added to this…

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Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Now that the AV2 specification is publicly available after five years of hard work, AOMedia members are already demonstrating it in real-world playback environments. At CES 2026, AOMedia members Google, and VideoLAN participated in AV2 decoding demonstrations, with support from THX. They showed real-time AV2 playback on laptops using current reference implementations, spanning both native applications and browser-based streaming pipelines. Together, these efforts showed that AV2 decoding can operate end-to-end in realistic playback scenarios and on widely available laptop-class systems. Native application decoding with VLC…

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I'm as anti-genAI as it gets. And yet, this past month, I have used generative coding to complete a project. It works. I hated making it. The Apologia Let's get this out of the way: my feelings about using generative models at all are...fraught. And if you are ready to call me a monster or a hypocrite right now, I understand. I'm navigating some tensions about this and I fully own that I may have made the wrong choices here. My actual day job, the…

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Writing Lisp is AI Resistant and I’m Sad — Dan’s Musings

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In an insulting, ironic blow to the neats, the scruffies created an AI that much prefers to write anything but Lisp. I use agentic AI a lot at work to do my job as a DevOps engineer. I use OpenRouter with the Goose CLI tool, and I've gotten a pretty good configuration file going with it. I have lately started writing a tool that converts between different RSS reader formats. I started writing it in Lisp, of course. It's my favorite language. I had…

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