Simple DIY STM32 Oscilloscope Project
In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to develop a straightforward single-channel oscilloscope. This can be followed along both via the YouTube...
Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Article URL: https://theremin.bizibah.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Dreamy handmade effects bring classic Disney magic to its new short film
Disney’s latest short film is an homage to practical magic. Once a Princess, Always a Princess, created by Disney and ad agency Fallon, debuted on August 17 for World Princess Week. It’s a four-minute-long tale about the joy of childhood friendship and play, set both...
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities
The flaws can be exploited for remote code execution, authentication bypass, and device takeover. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
These 3 unexpected practices helped me grow my startup
When I launched RiseGuide, a self-improvement platform letting people become their best by learning from the best, I wanted to offer a beneficial alternative to doomscrolling. We aggregated thousands of hours of expert knowledge into short, interactive, and practical...
I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time
Something is shifting. In July, New York became the first state in the country to impose a moratorium on hyperscale data centers—the power-devouring facilities that fuel artificial intelligence—so that the state could actually study what they do to communities before...
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
SAP consultant job ads across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland typically quote salaries 10 to 12 percent above the eventual offer, according to a recruitment firm specializing in the market. Employers seeking SAP consultants include IT services firms, management...
Faster Incident Response: How ANY.RUN Helps SOCs Cut MTTR by Up to 21 Minutes per Case
SOCs face constant pressure to detect and respond to threats faster. Heavy workloads, limited threat visibility, and disconnected tools can delay action, increasing the risk of financial loss and operational disruption. ANY.RUN helps more than 15,000 security teams...
Continuous Aggregate Refresh, Demystified: Invalidation, Lookback, and Late-Arriving Data
Yesterday the shift dashboard reported 41,900 units across an eight-hour window. Today the same query over the same eight hours reports 43,100. Nobody shipped a code change and nobody edited a row after the fact, so why did the number move? A plant-floor historian had...
From $823 to $200: A Practical AWS Cost Optimization Case Study
Cloud cost optimization isn’t simply a matter of “switching to smaller servers.” It starts with understanding the actual workload, then using billing data and monitoring to identify the true sources of cost, and finally verifying through rolling deployments, health...
From Requirement to Release: Building an AI Software Engineering Platform for Event-Driven Systems
Why Code Generation Is Not Enough The first generation of AI software engineering tools demonstrated that Large Language Models can generate production-quality code. The next generation will be measured by a fundamentally different capability: orchestrating the...
Your AI Benchmark Might Be Measuring the Harness, Not the Model
I nearly turned four software bugs into four model personalities This article was edited with AI assistance. The cases and data come from real batch runs in the Kai! AI Arena. Every claim is limited to the game rules, model versions, and experimental setup used at the...
The New Big Tech Playbook: Smaller Teams, Faster Products, More AI
For years, the blueprint for building a technology company seemed almost universal. Hire thousands of software engineers and builders, organize them into specialized departments, and scale by adding more people as the business grows.Artificial intelligence is...
How Android HCE Creates New Attack Surfaces for MIFARE DESFire
Mifare DESFire keycards are some of the most difficult keycards to clone. As such, they are used in access control, transit, closed loop payments, and many other sectors. Acquiring keys for DESFire cards has been borderline impossible thanks to its robust physical and...
AI Watermarks Are Here, But They Don’t Prove Who Wrote the Text
Within 48 hours at the turn of August, both major AI labs switched on watermarking. On July 31, OpenAI embedded SynthID marks into all GPT-Live voice output — one day before Article 50 of the EU AI Act came into force. From August 2, Anthropic began weaving an...
How AI Agents Can Migrate QA Test Cases With One Command
Hi! I’m Oleg, a QA Engineering Manager focused on test strategy, automation, and AI-assisted QA workflows.I lead one of the testing stacks at a large grocery retail company. We've been working through a series of experiments on where AI actually saves time in QA — not...
Flux.2 Klein 9B MatchingPose: A Guide to Identity-Preserving Pose Transfer
OverviewFlux.2-Klein-9B-MatchingPose is a LoRA adapter for FLUX.2 Klein 9B that transfers pose from a mannequin reference image onto a character while preserving the character's identity, face, and style. Created by nhathoangfoto, this model solves a critical problem...
I Built a Chiptune Synth in Pure x86-64 Assembly
No libc. No audio library. No sound card driver. Just the processor and 44,100 numbers a second. I didn't come from computers.My background is languages and translation — human grammar, the kind with conjugations and declensions.I started coding in October 2025, with...
Can NATS Replace Etcd? Building a Leaner K3s Stack
The Cost Trap of Multi-Node HA I see titles on YouTube like PgBouncer in 3 Minutes – The Lightweight Hero Every Dev Needs. The objection I have to this kind of wording is the lack of words like 'ops', 'sysadmin' or 'manged service'. Title's like this are of interest...
Why AI Agents Need Event-Driven Architecture
AI agents become fragile when they are connected in long synchronous chains. An event bus lets them work independently, wait for people and tools, recover after restarts, and place policy between a model's recommendation and a real action. Most AI agent demos fit...
What a Single uint32_t Teaches About C Types and Memory
Disclosure: I'm the author and maintainer of the open-source repo referenced in this piece. It's free, MIT-licensed, and I don't monetize it in any way. This piece was originally published on dev.to; this version has been reworked for HackerNoon's house style, and...
Why RAG Is Becoming Essential for Banking and Compliance
I recently built a custom Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to move past the limitations of keyword matching. By processing a regulatory document, chunking the text strategically, and embedding it into ChromaDB, I wanted to test how semantic search handles...
How I Reached #7 in a Hugging Face AI Competition for Under $80
Qwen3.8-27B Cold Fusion Cuts Thinking Tokens Without Sacrificing Performance
OverviewQwen3.8-27B-Cold-Fusion-GAIN-V1.1 is a 27-billion parameter instruction-tuned language model built by DavidAU that applies the COLD FUSION training methodology—combining GAIN (an internally developed technique) with Unsloth's training infrastructure—to reduce...
Are Humans Superior to AI—or Becoming Subordinate?
Are We Superior or Subordinate?“To put this into perspective, we must examine whether artificial intelligence is merely a passive reflection of human programming or an evolving entity.”When we look at the core of human history, creation stories across different...
Why AI Research Writing Needs Evidence Before Generation
Large language models are already very good at producing plausible academic prose. In research writing, that creates a slightly strange problem: the sentence can look finished before the reasoning is.I ran into this while looking at AI continuations for a chemistry...
How to Automate Google Workspace Domain Aliases Safely
Managing one domain in Google Workspace is straightforward. Managing ten, twenty, or more domains across several brands is where the process starts to hurt.For every domain, an administrator has to prove ownership, publish a DNS record, wait for propagation, return to...
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning
Raspberry Pi has unveiled a $600 Programming Jig to take the faff out of preparing batches of Compute Module 5 (CM5) boards for deployment. The device combines the provisioning host and module interface in one box, eliminating the need for a separate IO board. The IO...
Brinqa buys PlexTrac to add penetration testing validation to exposure management
Exposure management company Brinqa Inc. today announced it has acquired offensive security validation and reporting platform company PlexTrac Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The purchase adds a step Brinqa’s platform did not have. Brinqa collects findings from scanners,...