The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)(dynomight.net)

227 points by ruph123 3 years ago | 128 comments

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s(dynomight.net)

42 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 36 comments

My favorite keyboards(fabiensanglard.net)

114 points by tmach32 3 months ago | 109 comments

OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now(dynomight.net)

467 points by dmazin 1 year ago | 419 comments

Dynomight blog post following up on why gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct plays chess well while other LLMs play poorly, testing several theories.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

My stupid noise journey (2023)(dynomight.net)

153 points by ustad 1 year ago | 169 comments

IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes(theverge.com)

318 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 202 comments

The Verge article reporting Ikea's plan to launch over 20 Matter-over-Thread smart home devices, shifting away from Zigbee to simplify and cheapen its smart home line.

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines(jefftk.com)

150 points by luu 3 days ago | 142 comments

Blog post by Jeff Kaufman arguing that small air purifiers make good white noise machines while also filtering smoke and infectious particles.

Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier(unethical.info)

321 points by unethicalinfo 2 years ago | 125 comments

Blog post on the Unethical Info blog describing how the author hacked an air purifier to bypass its DRM-protected filters.

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?(nytimes.com)

899 points by deeg 3 years ago | 954 comments

A Wirecutter advice column answering a reader's request for a TV recommendation without smart features, discussing options for non-smart or 'dumb' TVs.

Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen(mastodon.social)

579 points by ruph123 3 years ago | 195 comments

A Mastodon thread by Felix Häcker describing how his new monitor kept going black for seconds at a time, traced to his IKEA chair.

Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats(makeuseof.com)

42 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 32 comments

MakeUseOf article explaining how Google ended cloud support for first- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats, leaving them as manual thermostats, and mentions an open-source fix.