Inspired by aircraft IFF interrogator antennas, I decided to build my own array(techhub.social)

65 points by luu 2 years ago | 12 comments

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

Power over fiber(chaos.social)

360 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Mastodon post noting that power-over-fiber components can deliver 3V 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light sent over standard multimode optical fiber.

A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux(fosstodon.org)

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984(oldbytes.space)

98 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 20 comments

Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)(mastodon.sdf.org)

148 points by carlesfe 3 years ago | 181 comments

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)(jonaharagon.com)

334 points by Panda_ 5 months ago | 128 comments

Jonah Aragon's blog post about getting into mesh networking and comparing the Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum projects.

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh(iroh.computer)

326 points by tionis 3 months ago | 76 comments

Blog post from the iroh (n0) team introducing Mesh LLM, a system for distributed AI model inference across devices networked with iroh.

An Introduction to Meshtastic(meshtastic.org)

491 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 180 comments

Introduction page of the Meshtastic documentation, an open-source project using inexpensive LoRa radios for long-range off-grid mesh communication.

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks(github.com)

677 points by ananddtyagi 1 year ago | 309 comments

GitHub repository for bitchat, an open-source decentralized chat app that sends messages over Bluetooth mesh networks with an IRC-like feel.

"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

37 points by Brajeshwar 21 days ago | 15 comments

Jim Nielsen blog post reflecting on Ben Thompson's remark about tech being too convoluted, sparked by a family member's text complaining about the modern web.

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL(matthieulc.com)

563 points by cataPhil 1 year ago | 104 comments

Blog post by Matthieu Le Cauchois presenting Shoggoth Mini, a soft tentacle robot controlled using GPT-4o and reinforcement learning.