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OrthoRoute | Benchoff Design Portfolio

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: This document is a complement to the README in the Github repository. The README provides information about performance, capabilities, and tests. This document reflects more on the why and how OrthoRoute was developed. This is a project born out of necessity. Another thing I was working on needed an enormous backplane. A PCB with sixteen connectors, with 1,100 pins on each connector. That’s 17,600 individual pads, and 8,192 airwires that need to be routed. Here, just take a look: Look at that shit. Hand…

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Downdetector’s Downdetector’s Downdetector

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Downdetector's Downdetector's Downdetector A tiny independent status checker. All Systems Operational Downdetector's Downdetector is responding normally from all regions. CHECKS BY REGION Region Status HTTP Latency London, GB ● Up 200 310 ms Sydney, AU ● Up 200 469 ms New Jersey, US ● Up 200 172 ms …

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Mic92/strace-macos: A clone of the strace command for macOS

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: A system call tracer for macOS using the LLDB debugger API. Status: Beta - Core functionality works, but some features are still in development. Works with SIP enabled - Unlike dtruss, doesn't require disabling System Integrity Protection Pure Python implementation - No kernel extensions or compiled components Multiple output formats - JSON Lines and strace-compatible text output Syscall filtering - Filter by syscall name or category (-e trace=file, -e trace=network) Symbolic decoding - Automatically decodes flags, error codes, and struct fields Color output - Syntax highlighting…

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I just want working RCS messaging

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: November 18, 2025 I’m in over a month now with non-working RCS on my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple blames the carriers, the carriers tell me it’s not them (mostly T-Mobile since I have good contacts there). They tell me they can’t really do anything about iPhones not working on RCS, go back to Apple. This is what it looks like: In short, it’s probably Apple or Google and there’s zero accountability from Apple. I have AppleCare+ and really hoped they’d actually try to troubleshoot and fix…

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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark 18th November 2025 Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, and their collection of 11 more articles. It’s a big release! I had a few days of preview access to this model via AI Studio. The best way to describe it is that it’s Gemini 2.5 upgraded…

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Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Fishing (phishing?) aroundWhat the Monotype rep did next is kind of what a malicious hacker does when they’re trying to get someone from your company to click on a link that’ll install malware on your computer. Over the next couple of weeks, the rep messaged a dozen or so more people from different parts of the business, hoping to hook just one person who would reply to the scary message they were sending.Now I’d already emailed my design, brand, and digital team colleagues to tell them…

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DOOMed to Fail: A Horror Story With Rebecca Heineman (Burger Becky)

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Introduction Adam: Hi. This is CoRecursive, and I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Each episode is the story of a piece of software being built. Why don’t you tell me what you do and who you are? Becky: Okay. Yeah. I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. I’ve been in the video game industry since the beginning of time. I started by winning the Atari 2600 Space Invaders tournament in November of 1980. Since then, went to work at companies like Avalon Hill, and then Boone Corporation until Boone imploded, and…

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Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help and the University of Arizona which has a very dedicated and professional Information Technology Services staff. It started when I saw some telephone history enthusiasts post about a construction bid at the University of…

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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic. This showed up to Internet users trying to access our customers' sites as an error page indicating a failure within Cloudflare's network. The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple…

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Oracle is already underwater on its ‘astonishing’ $300bn OpenAI deal

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.It’s too soon to be talking about the Curse of OpenAI, but we’re going to anyway. Since September 10, when Oracle announced a $300bn deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315bn* in market value:Some content could not load. Check your internet connection or browser settings.OK, yes, it’s a gross simplification to just look at market cap. But equivalents to Oracle shares are…

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