I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

662 blkhp19 2026-04-08 16:29:14 UTC bryankeller.github.io Llama Share 136

The author successfully ported Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to the Nintendo Wii by writing a custom bootloader, patching the kernel, and creating drivers for the Wii's hardware. The author overcame various challenges, including hardware incompatibilities, driver development, and debugging, to achieve a fully functional Mac OS X system on the Wii.

Git commands I run before reading any code

1388 grepsedawk 2026-04-08 09:29:14 UTC piechowski.io Llama Share 319

The user runs a series of git commands to get a diagnostic picture of a codebase, including commit history, high-churn files, and contributor rankings. This helps identify high-risk code, potential team issues, and crisis patterns, allowing the user to focus on the most critical areas of the codebase.

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

67 alex_be 2026-04-08 17:29:14 UTC kalmanfilter.net Llama Share 11

The Kalman Filter is an algorithm for estimating and predicting a system's state in the presence of uncertainty. It is used in various fields such as object tracking, navigation, and control.

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

143 chabons 2026-04-08 16:29:14 UTC ai.meta.com Full Share 203

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Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

25 latchkey 2026-04-08 18:29:14 UTC oj-hn.com Llama Share 11

Orange Juice is a Hacker News extension that reduces UI friction with features like inline replies, unread comment highlighting, and keyboard commands. It's designed to be trustworthy with transparent code, clear licensing, and human oversight.

They're made out of meat (1991)

264 surprisetalk 2026-04-08 11:29:14 UTC terrybisson.com Llama Share 88

Aliens made of meat have been discovered and probed, but their existence is being kept secret. The aliens are trying to contact Earth, but officials advise erasing records and pretending they don't exist due to their unusual nature.

In general, ML promises to be profoundly weird

237 pabs3 2026-04-08 13:29:14 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 243

The author discusses the limitations and potential risks of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are prone to confabulation, lying, and making up nonsense, and can be unpredictable and misleading. Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs are far from human-equivalent intelligence and can only excel in specific, narrow tasks, making it difficult to predict their suitability for a given task.

Veracrypt project update

962 super256 2026-04-08 07:29:14 UTC sourceforge.net Llama Share 350

Microsoft terminated your account used for signing Windows drivers and bootloader without warning, preventing VeraCrypt updates for Windows users. You're considering alternative solutions, such as a signature-independent program, and seeking help from Microsoft and the crypto community.

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

213 chrsw 2026-04-08 12:29:14 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 41

MegaTrain is a memory-centric system that efficiently trains large language models on a single GPU by storing parameters in host memory and using GPUs as transient compute engines. It achieves high training throughput through pipelined execution and stateless layer templates.

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic support to respond

31 nickvec 2026-04-08 18:29:14 UTC nickvecchioni.github.io Llama Share 13

User experienced unexpected $180 charges on Anthropic account due to incorrect usage meter readings. Anthropic support failed to resolve issue despite multiple follow-ups, leaving user frustrated with AI-only support system.

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

400 ra 2026-04-08 09:29:14 UTC skoda-storyboard.com Llama Share 472

koda developed DuoBell, a bicycle bell that outsmarts noise-cancelling headphones. The bell emits sound at a frequency that ANC algorithms can't process, increasing pedestrian reaction distance by up to 22 meters.

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

3 WerWolv 2026-04-08 19:25:14 UTC werwolv.net Prefix Share 0

Say you’re being handed a USB device and told to write a driver for it. Seems like a daunting task at first, right? Writing drivers means you have to write Kernel code, and writing Kernel code is hard, low level, hard to debug and so on. None of this is actually true though. Writing a driver for a USB device is actually not much more difficult than writing an application that uses Sockets. ...

Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs

21 dreamsome 2026-04-08 17:29:14 UTC github.com/onesuper Llama Share 21

tui-use allows AI agents to interact with terminal programs by spawning them in a PTY, observing the screen, and sending keystrokes. It provides a snapshot model, rich key support, and highlights for selected items, enabling agents to run interactive sessions and navigate TUI applications.

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

302 donohoe 2026-04-08 15:29:14 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 109

Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi's account, affecting Windows updates. VeraCrypt and WireGuard, another VPN client, face similar issues with Microsoft account terminations.

Understanding Traceroute

18 stonecharioteer 2026-04-08 17:29:14 UTC tech.stonecharioteer.com Llama Share 0

The user implemented a basic traceroute in Rust using UDP packets with low TTL and ICMP replies to map the network path, but it lacked timing information and had issues with load balancer detection and ICMP rate limiting. The user improved the implementation by adding timing information, load balancer detection, and handling ICMP rate limiting, and also explored ways to run the traceroute ...

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

487 giuliomagnifico 2026-04-08 12:29:14 UTC cnet.com Llama Share 280

Flock Safety, a surveillance company, has been criticized for its AI-powered license plate cameras and data sharing practices with law enforcement and federal agencies like ICE. Cities and states are pushing back with legislation to limit the use and sharing of Flock data, and individuals can take steps to protect their privacy by being aware of surveillance in their area and advocating for change.

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

117 e-topy 2026-04-08 13:29:14 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 199

You're looking for a novel and less crowded project to contribute to, having explored various fields like AI, 3D printing, and drones.

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

49 DamnInteresting 2026-04-08 14:29:14 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 19

LG's rollable phone, the Rollable, was a complex device with a motorized screen that expanded 40% larger. It was overengineered, expensive, and fragile, likely contributing to its failure to launch and the demise of LG's smartphone division.

Science confirms torpedo [baseball] bat works as well as regular bat

5 Magi604 2026-04-08 18:29:14 UTC news.wsu.edu Prefix Share 2

PULLMAN, Wash. — The New York Yankees took the baseball world by storm with the newly designed torpedo bat last year, but the revolutionary design has ended up being no better than a standard bat for hitting the ball out of the park. In the first-ever laboratory experiments done on the bat, a research team determined that the torpedo bat and traditional bat perform equally well in hitting ...

One item purchased, ten emails

74 speckx 2026-04-08 18:29:14 UTC joshghent.com Llama Share 56

Email campaigns are optimized to increase volume, but result in frustrating experiences for consumers. Simple login aliases can temporarily solve the issue, but the problem lies in the campaign's design.

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

152 surprisetalk 2026-04-08 10:29:14 UTC scottlawsonbc.com Llama Share 50

The user spent 10 years developing an audio-reactive LED strip visualizer that uses the mel scale to model human perception of sound and gamma correction to model human perception of light, resulting in a highly engaging and musical visualization. The project has gained over 2,800 GitHub stars and has been used by thousands of people to create unique installations and experiences in ...

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

322 tetrisgm 2026-04-08 06:29:14 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 107

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

127 bundie 2026-04-08 06:29:14 UTC blog.railway.com Llama Share 110

Railway migrated from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router, reducing build time from 10+ minutes to under 2 minutes. This change improved iteration speed and allowed for near-instant shipping of frontend changes.

Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing

30 bookofjoe 2026-04-08 14:29:14 UTC rovers.land Full Share 10

follow the curiosity rover across mars, sol by sol, through every photo it has taken since landing in 2012 · by @laurentdelrey

Union types in C# 15

125 0x00C0FFEE 2026-04-08 10:29:14 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 119

C# 15 introduces union types with the union keyword, allowing a value to be exactly one of a fixed set of types with compiler-enforced exhaustive pattern matching. This feature provides a closed set of case types, enabling designs that traditional hierarchies can't express and catching missing cases at build time.

Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go

38 rvitorper 2026-04-08 15:29:14 UTC github.com/rvitorper Llama Share 3

go-bt uses a cooperative multitasking model with nodes returning state instantly. It provides a minimalist set of core nodes for creating logical control flow with a custom state.

Claude Managed Agents

77 adocomplete 2026-04-08 17:29:14 UTC claude.com Llama Share 33

Claude Managed Agents is a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, reducing development time from months to days. It handles complexity, enabling teams to focus on user experience and outcomes with less operational overhead.

Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route

23 vkatluri 2026-04-08 15:29:14 UTC navimodo.com Full Share 17

💡Click weather markers on the map for detailed forecasts at that specific location and time

Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map

37 intofarlands 2026-04-08 15:29:14 UTC intofarlands.com Full Share 6

Use the interactive map to explore the Silk Roads, discover new routes, learn what resources and goods are traded, or find an outpost or town to dive into. Black Icon indicates this place has been charted but currently at work to bring it online. Small black dot indicates a significant Silk Road outpost but has yet to be visited by us.

Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

144 alxndr 2026-04-08 09:29:14 UTC rumproarious.com Llama Share 64

The user uses Obsidian with AI to build a personal knowledge base by collecting raw sources into a directory and having an LLM compile them into a wiki of interlinked markdown files. This system serves as a context engineering system, providing the input layer that makes every future LLM interaction better by storing meeting notes, linked decisions, and filed artifacts.