Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino(blog.jgc.org)

134 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 61 comments

Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit(blog.jgc.org)

78 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 16 comments

Restoration of an IBM 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop(blog.jgc.org)

100 points by jtwaleson 2 years ago | 35 comments

I Made a Rubbish Clock(blog.jgc.org)

110 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 33 comments

Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly(blog.jgc.org)

804 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 280 comments

John Graham-Cumming blog post explaining why Kelly Rowland's Excel-texting scene in the Dilemma video on a Nokia 9210 Communicator couldn't work via =HYPERLINK().

Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax(blog.jgc.org)

81 points by jgrahamc 1 year ago | 14 comments

AI slop is killing online communities(rmoff.net)

750 points by thm 5 months ago | 648 comments

A blog post by Robin Moffatt (rmoff) arguing that low-effort AI-generated content is degrading online communities.

How far back in time can you understand English?(deadlanguagesociety.com)

634 points by spzb 8 months ago | 335 comments

A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie presenting an experiment on how far back in time readers can understand earlier forms of English.

AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware(torrentfreak.com)

6 points by HieronymusBosch 14 days ago | 1 comments

TorrentFreak article on TorrentClaw, an AI-built torrent search engine whose TrueSpec feature inspects torrent contents, revealing a malware trick using a genuine VLC player as a decoy.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files(alexschapiro.com)

752 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 258 comments

A blog post describing how the author found an unauthenticated API flaw in Filevine's legal AI tool exposing 100k+ confidential files, with a disclosure timeline.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.