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Brazil's presidential race came down to the wire, with Lula pulling off an upset after early results and prediction markets heavily favored Bolsonaro. Hacker News commenters dig into Brazil's two-rou…
Proton has launched an interactive map that lets you search by ZIP code to see where Flock Safety's license plate readers are installed. The data comes from security researcher Joshua Michael, who fo…
A post-mortem of G-Diffuser, the F-Zero X decompilation ported to the Nintendo 3DS. A 24-day sprint got it running at 60 fps in stereoscopic 3D on a New 3DS; a 43-day second phase added Old 3DS suppo…
A Beyblade X fan in Dublin bought the Japan-exclusive Beybattle Pass on eBay and reverse-engineered its Bluetooth Low Energy protocol. Using LightBlue and PacketLogger, he decoded the launch RPM (lit…
A new paper asks whether explicit self-attention is really necessary for strong performance. The authors reframe multi-head attention as tensor lifting and propose a Causal Grassmann layer that encod…
A retired decorator from Woking bought sealed Pokémon sets on eBay in the late 1990s for his son, then stored them in the attic for 15 years once the boy lost interest. Ewbank's auctioned all 42 mint…
A story-driven puzzle game from bitheap GmbH in Zürich, Chip Builder walks you through digital logic one lab at a time: transistors into gates, gates into adders and memory, and memory into a CPU you…