Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle(dmitrybrant.com)
793 points by zdw | 251 comments
Dmitry Brant's blog post about reverse engineering and bypassing a decades-old parallel-port copy protection dongle for legacy software.
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Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product(simonberens.com)
775 points by sberens | 368 comments
A newsletter post by a software engineer recounting lessons from manufacturing and shipping the first 500 units of Brighter, a high-brightness lamp funded via crowdfunding.
Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down(idiallo.com)
692 points by firefoxd | 329 comments
Ibrahim Diallo's blog post recounting how he got a neighbor to keep their volume down, subtitled "I'm the Captain Now."
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking(netbird.io)
691 points by l1am0 | 267 comments
Homepage of NetBird, an open source platform combining a WireGuard-based overlay network with Zero Trust Network Access for secure remote connectivity.
Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery(github.com)
508 points by deofoo | 151 comments
GitHub repository for Craftplan, a self-hosted open-source production management and ERP tool for small artisanal D2C businesses like bakeries.
Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation(github.com)
486 points by jimminyx | 195 comments
GitHub repository for NanoClaw, a minimal ~500-line TypeScript personal Claude assistant that runs agents inside isolated Apple containers.
My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs(journal.rafaelcosta.me)
409 points by rafaelcosta | 194 comments
Blog post describing how an iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running LLMs with Apple's MLX framework, and investigating the cause.
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games(adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
381 points by doener | 80 comments
Homepage of Adventure Game Studio, an open-source tool for creating point-and-click adventure games, with a games catalog and community.
Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out(boxc.net)
372 points by fugu2 | 197 comments
Blog post by Tim Plaisted explaining how to connect Claude Code to a local open-source LLM when the usage quota is exhausted.
Ian's Shoelace Site(fieggen.com)
361 points by righthand | 67 comments
Ian Fieggen's long-running website about shoelaces, covering lacing methods, tying techniques including the fast Ian Knot, and shoelace science.
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent(mariozechner.at)
347 points by SatvikBeri | 149 comments
Mario Zechner's blog post describing lessons learned building pi, an opinionated and minimal terminal-based AI coding agent.
List animals until failure(rose.systems)
321 points by l1n | 173 comments
A browser word game where players type as many animal names as they can before a one-minute timer runs out.
Apple I Advertisement (1976)(apple1.chez.com)
266 points by janandonly | 145 comments
The Book of PF, 4th edition(nostarch.com)
199 points by 0x54MUR41 | 38 comments
![Screenshot of btboces.org: There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/2/5/538c4ef7-19c8-4f61-ade6-c9d1343f42de.jpg)
A Broken Heart(allenpike.com)
147 points by memalign | 40 comments
Remarkable Pro Colors(thregr.org)
128 points by ffaser5gxlsll | 54 comments
Amiga Unix (Amix)(amigaunix.com)
127 points by donatj | 54 comments
Margin Call(asymco.com)
124 points by zdw | 64 comments
Treasures found on HS2 route(bbc.com)
116 points by breve | 64 comments
Listen to Understand(talk.bradwoods.io)
101 points by bradwoodsio | 17 comments
Contracts in Nix(sraka.xyz)
92 points by todsacerdoti | 16 comments
Lily Programming Language(lily-lang.org)
56 points by FascinatedBox | 39 comments
![Screenshot of zeroleaks.ai: OpenClaw security assessment [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/2/1/49d6636f-3605-4201-a2d6-33da060597b8.jpg)
