## breaking limits

[Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19573458)
[Downtown Doug Brown - Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it](https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/)

[IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844101)
[IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District | WhiteHoodHacker](https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick/)

[Hacking YouTube with a MP4 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28831347)
[Keyboard Warrior - Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?](https://realkeyboardwarrior.github.io/security/2021/10/11/hacking-youtube.html)

[How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039631)
[how to be popular · discrete blogarithm](https://blog.azuki.vip/csrf/)

[This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27814080)
[KittenLabs](https://kittenlabs.de/)

[Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897535)
[Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20210126024810/http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos)

[Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889)
[Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego · Jacques Mattheij](https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/)

[I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401294)
[How I hacked Facebook: Part One - Alaa Abdulridha](https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/)

[Bypassing Android MDM Using a $1.50 Electric Gas Lighter | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24590765)
[Bypassing Android MDM using Electromagnetic Fault Injection by a Gas Lighter for $1.5](https://web.archive.org/web/20200925152714/https://payatu.com/blog/arun/bypassing-android-mdm-using-electromagnetic-fault-injection-by-a-gas-lighter-for-$1.5$)

[BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810250)
[BitLocker Lockscreen bypass | secret club](https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html)
[SecretClub](https://secret.club/)
Security News
[BattlEye client emulation | secret club](https://secret.club/2020/07/06/bottleye.html)

[Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25012900)
[Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler](https://sarabee.github.io/2020/09/13/is-this-mahler/)

[Show HN: From Markdown to Video | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718854)
[From Markdown to Video](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/script/)

[Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728175)
[Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time - bugs.xdavidhu.me](https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/)

[Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24988301)
[DISCLOSURE: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points | Chad Scira](https://chadscira.com/post/5fa269d46142ac544e013d6e/DISCLOSURE-Unlimited-Chase-Ultimate-Rewards-Points)

[Booting from a vinyl record | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25177045)
[Booting from a vinyl record - BOGIN, JR.](http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/)

[Pimp My Microwave | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093704)
[dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave: Installing a RGB mechanical keypad on my microwave.](https://github.com/dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave/#)

[Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb - Vidar's Blog](https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog?p=766)

[Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013880)
[Bob_cassette_rewinder | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39623128)
[dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder: Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving!](https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder)

[Neil Sardesai on Twitter](https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1380649026186534913)

[code-relay/HowIDidIt.md at main · mmulet/code-relay · GitHub](https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/HowIDidIt.md)

[Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26677112)
[This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761 - Blog](https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html)

[Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022751)
[Unbricking a $2,000 Bike With a $10 Raspberry Pi](https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/)

[Why are McDonald's Self Service Kiosks so hackable? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32218232)
[Why are McDonald's Self Service Kiosks so hackable?](https://ghuntley.com/mcdonalds/)

[DVD Laser Scanner Microscope | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012652)
[Welcome to - DVD Laser Scanner Microscope](https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652)

[Fake IMDB credits | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377063)
[#16: The case of fake IMDb credits - by pb - Pea Bee](https://peabee.substack.com/p/16-the-case-of-fake-imdb-credits)

[I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32381550)
[That time I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case](https://artemis.sh/2022/08/07/emulating-calculators-fast-in-js.html)

[Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets! - DEV Community](https://dev.to/thormeier/dont-try-this-at-home-css-as-the-backend-what-3oih)

[The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38001784)
[That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars](https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html)
- they EASILY exploit (technical idiots)

[The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32434606)
[The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-internet-dish-hack/)

[I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292915)
[Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREokZa4dNU)

[Death by AI - a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318889)
[Death by AI - Survival Party Game](https://deathbyai.gg/)

[Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39976483)
[Two Bay Area railway workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations](https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/06/two-bay-area-railway-workers-charged-for-building-secret-apartments-inside-train-stations/)

[I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36325986)
[I booted Linux 292,612 times | Richard WM Jones](https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/06/14/i-booted-linux-292612-times/)

[Show HN: Bitwise Liminal - A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339249)
[Bitwise 📼 Liminal](https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/256B/BitwiseLiminal/)

[I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39470381)
[🤫 Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices | Andrey Konovalov](https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci)

[Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492515)
[John Graham-Cumming's blog: Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero](https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-tour.html)

[A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425280)
[0xdanelia/regex_turing_machine: The find/replace box in Notepad++ is Turing Complete](https://github.com/0xdanelia/regex_turing_machine)

[Hacking the Timex m851 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368099)
[Hacking the Timex m851](https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/timex.html)

[I reached my goal and now my snake game fits in a version 4 QR code](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/163rq8u/i_reached_my_goal_and_now_my_snake_game_fits_in_a/)

[Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249623)
[Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop](https://www.errno.fr/BypassingBitlocker.html)

[Facebook splitting the word "Sponsored" to bypass adblockers : assholedesign](https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/wp1o6p/facebook_splitting_the_word_sponsored_to_bypass)

[Infinite-Storage-Glitch - Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866808)
[DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch: ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video](https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch)

[Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402407)
[Alexander Pruss's Blog: Game Boy Fiver [Wordle clone]: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes](https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2022/02/game-boy-wordle-how-to-compress-12972.html)

[How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32663433)
[How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o)

[I hacked my car | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447650)
[How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style](https://programmingwithstyle.com/posts/howihackedmycar/)

[Genius Programming/Sugar Wiki - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/GeniusProgramming)

[GitHub - MinhasKamal/CreepyCodeCollection: A Nonsense Collection of Disgusting Codes](https://github.com/MinhasKamal/CreepyCodeCollection)

[Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse - hardware to custom OS | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690753)
[The Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle: A Rocketship Treehouse](https://rocket.jonh.net/)

## breaking social limits

[The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527251)
[The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem | Audubon](https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem)

[Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19092074)
[Build Your Van | Divine On The Road](https://divineontheroad.com/build-a-van/)

[Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444830)
[Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot | Russia | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/three-near-identical-boris-vishnevskys-on-st-petersburg-election-ballot)

[Open Insulin Foundation | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27853739)
[Open Insulin](https://openinsulin.org/)

[Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24309237)
[HealthcareIsDumb.com](https://healthcareisdumb.com/)

[Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26280808)
[Jakub G on Twitter: "👀Firefox replaces GA with a fake no-op GA (rather than outright blocking it) in strict tracking protection, to prevent websites from breaking: "Google Analytics is being shimmed by Firefox. See https://t.co/mfx5HZxueL for details." https://t.co/PMNRqgpOyX" / Twitter](https://web.archive.org/web/20230131100121/https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185)

[Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675666)
[Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth device into own ear to cheat in final exam | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/mbbs-student-bluetooth-cheating-bhopal-b2021217.html)

[My business card runs Linux | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077823)
[LinuxCard - Dmitry.GR](https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard)

[A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40531984)
[A Man Was Ordered to Build a Fence to Hide His Boat. He Asked an Artist to Paint the Boat on the Fence](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fence-boat-painting-artist-hanif-panni-2487875)

[The Free Movie | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399)
[the Free Movie](https://thefreemovie.buzz/)

## cleverness

[New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546273)
[New York Times Election Day Crossword ~ Crossword Unclued](https://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/01/nyt-election-day-crossword.html)

[Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129478)
[Picking up Free Lithium Cells Off the Street and Making them Safe for Use | atomic14](https://www.atomic14.com/2022/07/16/free-lithium-cells.html)

[Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31144106)
[Patching an Embedded OS from 1996 with Ghidra](http://blog.petersobot.com/patching-the-k2500)

[Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31146299)
[Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/)

[YouTuber builds his own x-ray machine after $69k hospital bill (2021) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30789046)
[How To Make a Homemade X-Ray Machine](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a37543273/homemade-xray-machine/)

[In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30709193)
[Angus Wallace - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Wallace#In-flight_surgery_with_a_coat-hanger_and_silverware)

["Amateur" programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31449147)
[This "amateur" programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti](https://howardchen.substack.com/p/this-amateur-programmer-fought-cancer)

[YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049)
[dzhang314/YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space](https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive)

[Installing a payphone in my house | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593248)
[Installing a payphone in my house | bertrand fan](https://bert.org/2022/06/02/payphone/)

[Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600848)
[MC387035: Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview) - PUPUWEB](https://pupuweb.com/mc387035-microsoft-purview-additional-classifiers-communication-compliance-preview/)

[DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31606334)
[HeavensLastAngel on X: ""A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)" #dalle https://t.co/CxyWFRJETc" / X](https://twitter.com/HvnsLstAngel/status/1531506455714492416)

[Dangerous Gift | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31609602)
[ongoing by Tim Bray · Dangerous Gift](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/06/02/Dangerous-Gift)

[Confess your love with zero-knowledge | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005)
[zk-Crush](https://www.zkcrush.xyz/)

[What rr does | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31617600)
[rr: lightweight recording & deterministic debugging](https://rr-project.org/)

[Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148)
[How to Make Money on Spotify? A 'White Noise' Podcast Could Bring You Big Bucks - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks)

[I won free load testing | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230457)
[I won free load testing](https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-won-free-load-testing)

[I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222506)
[beanlog.vercel.app/ibonds](https://beanlog.vercel.app/ibonds)

[300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30922808)
[Dallas Got Rick Rolled With a Giant QR Code on April Fools Day | Dallas Observer](https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-got-rick-rolled-with-a-giant-qr-code-on-april-fools-day-13716928)

[Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) - Trees that capture and store more carbon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672841)
[Living Carbon](https://www.livingcarbon.com/)

[Electronic Catan LCD Tiles | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31548268)
[Electronic Catan LCD Tiles · Colin Iuliano](https://coliniuliano.ca/projects/catan-tiles/)

[LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32520882)
[LackRack - Eth0Wiki](https://web.archive.org/web/20230526213547/https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack)

[Building a modern home in the woods | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193899)
[Johnny Rodgers](https://johnnyrodgers.is/building-a-modern-home)

[Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729026)
[Ancient Pompeii site installs 'invisible' solar panels that look like Roman terracotta tiles](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/06/ancient-pompeii-site-installs-invisible-solar-panels-that-look-like-roman-terracotta-tiles)

[Spot the backdoor: can you tell what's wrong with this unauthorised "patch"? (From an infamous security incident that happened in 2003) : linux](https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/12r4xqe/spot_the_backdoor_can_you_tell_whats_wrong_with/)

[Just For Fun](https://justforfun.io/)

[Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778996)
["Adam? …is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge?" | Kempa.com](https://www.kempa.com/adam-is-there-a-reason-your-laptop-is-in-the-fridge/)

[When your classmates threaten you with felony charges | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297823)
[When your classmates threaten you with felony charges | R. Miles McCain](https://miles.land/posts/classmates-legal-threat-fizz-defcon/)

[The 'Egg' Laptop | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33045219)
[The 'Egg' laptop](https://www.ikejima.org/projects/2022091-egg-laptop.html)

[Using Goatse to Stop App Theft | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917012)
[Using Goatse to Stop App Theft | The Blog of Dr. Josh C. Simmons](https://web.archive.org/web/20231017155207/https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F0xVTY%2FjNgy951c8TA%2BzC0yCQQ9F0dte2gYosIedbdEjbdG2dmRRFakE7q8vKCebXvIBySTfB59%2FwFeNecZvQqYME3wxKfhUCt4WnuxwOKPyyNnShqHFZCAMVa7K9TiQcsBVasBMK%2BMabcG6YaqRc1CMlBIHfPmnX%2Fmg%2Ffs0yvrxhPPzilKlBe%2BptMEWMlz5%2BcIYmDNoSH2elWI2ihkENaawYa7SCmRCoJg20GjxwmjKVSEXrrCFUUgNP2GVbItCKlQQWEs0RhZDEIdNeUNlSqBw4WrRuTgdDn%2B2ZK2y4hpTAl84o8TxHWRYJbAatI0jq0JNamQ9HQ5%2FsxrXQBsks0%2B3bhglJRqkkklVzCKz8%2FG0E%2FEEyh39EhXaaqlR%2BcWHr4yrf5hk9UpTrGrHQjOjsrZkemercn62jvdBLoI4ZycXUBkajRVUGU9dJJrnyrNP9HQ767UWUcMmrYJKQcwaQ0dBGfHX6g%2Bq7Ddt4Q0j5S6HM4fqDDXGVGXda5QqoY12OhzeHN1KgeG981xjF8jLGnSRlgIWujCOXZaBR2rKd89EBWEkXTDKFUdcGUEccm0ZFBSSd%2FQuq9O5n670zi49uxdlRbQXRHtWfGtqmKRiahlHDO3RMRqu5O0KqUbJjuEbj7a7%2BmbpF6isbIt7p7S694zZOFuUTCl5Q%2B6%2BLYk2%2FHV%2B%2B%2F3z1zcf9YSzT0Azxazm7mBbRNF7Br5wksL1rr%2FrNVDO7mnvUaS0om7Ful39xgnnCee%2BksFFolJe%2FD%2BnyBf%2BH7kcvSIGl4fZN%2BFxNjBaOU5VsoEGaYbrTWFoG3SssTguf6i0Oi6kjFLjyC7Mh27fhXMXrhXllFz9jycPjdEbuBY0uJOU2TnrO%2BFekMwW%2F2UnD%2BYWudLW3cJYyXevo66sRbLGHgWddBMEwfVhm54VJqAQ3CrStYDy2Gq0DUVSHDe%2FsIfC7MSB1j7zrZOK%2B92zZYd%2FRuAxBg73bqSonMMtWZhq2vDj6%2Burdulr5k7o%2BI64%2Bo7esrT7hpCdrpVV%2FUhb4RrXIh6cPauiOQUl0djXzRv0BZzuKxDYeLxvvN%2F2ro%2B1dLINC%2BnOxCN75spkHlU0Lm6JlbM93PaLY0vxwsfAJckGwuq%2BvzDmffwdizNrSOxp%2BvMtWW6z0B4%2Ba8w%2BxB%2Fsvok%2BBgiJVX01xQ2Bo8PxH%2B7q1t83j1hxjqP2baF9j3ek6sU9TPRlT2Bf28RztLiSsRvSadSXXrl7IUs3QJV0fw%2BQfbfE0cnz2BoXyjM7LE9%2Fiyuf8DkzPLrvPpAJSeTdJ43ZObiPu3db47x4cny%2F1IvBU6By2hDiNHk2G95j7tWKVKN0OvwHAAD%2F%2FwMASc5Y2XAHAAA%3D)

[I Hacked the Magic Mouse | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312649)
[I hacked the Magic Mouse](https://uplab.pro/2023/11/i-hacked-the-magic-mouse/)

[I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525978)
[I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate](https://www.mayer.cool/writings/I-Hacked-Magic-the-Gathering/)

[Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824115)
[Heisting 20 Million Dollars' Worth of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request](https://www.mayer.cool/writings/Heisting-20-Million-in-Magic-Cards/)

[LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515571)
[The Far-Reaching Consequences of LogoFAIL | Binarly - AI -Powered Firmware Supply Chain Security Platform](https://binarly.io/posts/The_Far_Reaching_Consequences_of_LogoFAIL/)

[LED Matrix Earrings | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446537)
[LED Matrix Earrings - mitxela.com](https://mitxela.com/projects/ledstud)

[I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30433477)
[When I'm Sad My Computer Sends Me Cats - Andrew Healey](https://healeycodes.com/when-im-sad-my-computer-sends-me-a-cat)

[I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37454766)
[I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race 🍕 - Matt Steele](https://steele.blue/geofence-pizza-ordering/)

[Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190743)
[flipreps](https://web.archive.org/web/20230819165752/https://carloslagoa.com/blog/flipreps/flipreps.html)

[Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134903)
[Behold: Ledonardo - Stavros' Stuff](https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/?)

[Avoiding homework with code and getting caught | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945906)
[Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught)](https://alistair.blog/mochip)

[I need to find an apartment | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30968721)
[I Need to Find an Apartment](https://mattrighetti.com/2022/04/05/i-need-to-find-an-appartment)

[2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902520)
[Unique 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer in Japan - The Mainichi](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220916/p2a/00m/0sc/017000c)

[Fixing annoying blue standby lights | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830782)
[Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights | Full Circuit | Elegant Solutions to Difficult Problems](https://www.fullcircuit.com/blog/fixing-annoying-blue-standby-lights)

## deconstructing

[Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29781019)
[Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU - Part 1 | I CAN Hack](https://icanhack.nl/blog/vw-part1/)

[Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719680)
[Reverse engineering my cable modem and turning it into an SDR | cm-sdr](https://stdw.github.io/cm-sdr/)

[Frasier Fantasy | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37916855)
[Frasier Fantasy by Edward La Barbera](https://edward-la-barbera.itch.io/frasier-fantasy)

## exploring limits

[Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685632)
[Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes](https://www.righto.com/2021/12/reverse-engineering-tiny-1980s-chip.html)

[This website has 81% battery power remaining | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531145)
[Power | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power)

[Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28887142)
[Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes | Art | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/16/vienna-museums-open-adult-only-onlyfans-account-to-display-nudes)

[Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394752)
[Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s](https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box-fan-air-purifier/)

[Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115837)
[Breaking Free from DRM: The Story of Hacking My Air Purifier - Unethical Info](https://unethical.info/2024/01/24/hacking-my-air-purifier/)

[Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101153)
[Is an $800 purifier best to clean your home's air? Marketplace tested 5 top brands and their claims | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/portable-air-purifier-tests-marketplace-1.5900782)

[Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215157)
[Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)](https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/17/pop/)

[List of Special Elevator Modes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27776830)

[We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772907)
[We replaced rental brokers with software](https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments)

[CSS in GitHub Readmes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349068)
[sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat: Style your readme using CSS with this simple trick](https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat)

[I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872)
[Oisín Moran | How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet](https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet)

[How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339)
[I cut GTA Online loading times (2021) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31681515)
[How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%](https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/)
[Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469753)
[Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming | PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-thanks-gta-online-player-who-fixed-poor-load-times-official-update-coming/)

[Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478)
[$200 solar self-sufficiency - without your landlord noticing. | by Niko Dunk | Medium](https://medium.com/@nikodunk/200-for-a-green-diy-self-sufficient-bedroom-that-your-landlord-wont-hate-b3b4cdcfb4f4)

[Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316637)
[Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37889666)
[Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31455968)
[Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux](https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html)
- piracy keeps the historical archives of the internet

[An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270184)
[Project Zero: An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html)

[I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25216499)
[I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track | by David Lu | Medium](https://delu.medium.com/i-spent-11-years-working-on-this-line-rider-track-96742fc0b709)

[Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26922448)
[Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository - RyotaK's Blog](https://blog.ryotak.net/post/homebrew-security-incident-en/)

[GitHub - p0dalirius/Awesome-RCE-techniques: Awesome list of step by step techniques to achieve Remote Code Execution on various apps!](https://github.com/p0dalirius/Awesome-RCE-techniques)

[Delivery Drivers Are Using Grey Market Apps to Make Their Jobs Suck Less](https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvpng/delivery-drivers-are-using-grey-market-apps-to-make-their-jobs-suck-less)

[PNG files can be animated via network latency | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579759)
[image.png (PNG Image, 4096 × 4096 pixels) - Scaled (21%)](https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/adamation/image.png)

[The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27487958)
[Andrew on X: "The pretend code on the laptop screen in the stock photo at https://t.co/9lUwhHwPh5 is user-editable." / X](https://twitter.com/Andrew_Taylor/status/1403709080737390592)

[I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121461)
[I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here's What Happened - The Mac Security Blog](https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/i-mailed-an-airtag-and-tracked-its-progress-heres-what-happened/)

[Horrifying PDF Experiments | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25609321)
[osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments: :syringe: Stuff which works in Chrome and maybe Acrobat and Foxit.](https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments)
[breakout.pdf](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments@master/breakout.pdf)

[Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912300)
[Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633792)
[Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel](https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/)

[Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613610)
[Underjord | Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS](https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html)

[Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815583)

[Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731699)
[Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL | Haki Benita](https://hakibenita.com/sql-anomaly-detection)

[Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703098)

[An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735665)
[A Q&A with the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to Wikifeet](https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/a-q-and-a-with-the-man-who-keeps-uploading-my-feet-to-wikifeet.html)

[A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24042305)
[The Impossible Maze - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVgoy_a_gWI)

[I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545361)
[How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes - James Somers (jsomers.net)](https://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/)

[Show HN: %%30%30: A Game | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249362)
[szhu/3030: %%30%30 Game: Don't touch the trees! (Thanks, Chrome dev team!)](https://github.com/szhu/3030/tree/master)
[%%30%30 by szhu](https://szhu.github.io/3030/)

[SpamChannel: Spoofing emails from 2M domains and virtually becoming Satan [pdf] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628337)
[byt3bl33d3r - SpamChannel Spoofing Emails From 2 Million Domains and Virtually Becoming Satan.pdf](https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20presentations/byt3bl33d3r%20-%20SpamChannel%20Spoofing%20Emails%20From%202%20Million%20Domains%20and%20Virtually%20Becoming%20Satan.pdf)

[Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37704760)
[PROJEKT: OVERFLOW](https://punkx.org/overflow/)

[Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784537)
[Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card Rev 2. by dinidu | Download free STL model | Printables.com](https://www.printables.com/model/467332-framework-laptop-cupholder-expansion-card)

[Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391137)
[brickbots/framedeck: A Framework mainboard based Cyberdeck](https://github.com/brickbots/framedeck)

[I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38130418)
[I Trapped 200 Scammers in an Impossible Maze - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E)

[Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252566)
[Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB](https://matthew.science/posts/occupancy/)

[Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37751140)
[Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station](https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-man-steals-800-gallons-using-bluetooth-to-hack-gas-pumps-at-station)

[I hacked a train toilet | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163797)
[I hacked a train toilet](https://www.devever.net/~hl/traintoilet)

[I bricked my Christmas lights | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657126)
[Bricked Xmas](https://www.whizzy.org/2023-12-14-bricked-xmas/)

[We made an animated movie in 8kB | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121101)
[How we made an animated movie in 8kB - Ctrl-Alt-Test](https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/2024/how-we-made-an-animated-movie-in-8kb/)

[How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838167)
[How to Get Root Access to Your Sleep Number Bed - Dillan Mills](https://dillan.org/articles/how-to-get-root-access-to-your-sleep-number-bed)

[Tiny volumetric display | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498109)
[POV Candle](https://mitxela.com/projects/candle)

[LED Industrial Piercing | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38734164)
[LED Industrial Piercing](https://mitxela.com/projects/scaffold)

[What's that touchscreen in my room? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063242)
[What's that touchscreen in my room? | Nikita Lapkov](https://laplab.me/posts/whats-that-touchscreen-in-my-room/)

[I broke IKEA (2023) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436358)
[cohost! - "I broke IKEA."](https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/2891449-i-broke-ikea)

[The 'Atlanta Magnet Man' is saving our car tires, one bike ride at a time | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39561356)
[The 'Atlanta Magnet Man' is saving our car tires, one bike ride at a time - WABE](https://www.wabe.org/the-atlanta-magnet-man-is-saving-our-car-tires-one-bike-ride-at-a-time/)

[Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968922)
[GitHub - veggiedefender/open-and-shut: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut](https://github.com/veggiedefender/open-and-shut)

[Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232)

[The Fantilator Page | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37641706)
[Fantilator Page](https://web.archive.org/web/20231010134227/https://onlyfans.web.cern.ch/)

[Did you lose your AirPods? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41334207)
[Did you lose your AirPods? | Alex Yancey](https://alexyancey.com/lost-airpods/)

## exploring limits - forced limits

[I keep making things out of checkboxes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826018)
[I keep making things out of checkboxes | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer](https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-out-of-checkboxes/)

[I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28671743)
[operand.ca/2021/09/27/how_i_bricked_then_recovered_my_remarkable_2.html](https://operand.ca/2021/09/27/how_i_bricked_then_recovered_my_remarkable_2.html)

[Show HN: ThreadTone - Halftone images made of thread | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254029)
[ThreadTone](https://www.thevelop.nl/blog/2016-12-25/ThreadTone/)

[New Linux port for the Nintendo 64 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539319)
[[RFC 0/6] Nintendo 64 Linux port](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20201225190503.12353218812e1655f56f0bf8@gmx.com/T/#m0862c3484e0da7195dc8989421d30f01b3b1c63a)

[Show HN: My personal website is a shell | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26700770)
[aava.sh](https://aava.sh/)

[Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279)
[Building a 'Homebrew' Video Game Console | Internal Register](https://internalregister.github.io/2019/03/14/Homebrew-Console.html)

[Building an iPod for 2022 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345399)
[An iPod for 2022](https://ellie.wtf/projects/ipod)

## fuzzy line between hacking and cleverness

[Is what I did considered hacking? : hacking](https://old.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/16tbasj/is_what_i_did_considered_hacking/)

## inventions

[GitHub - tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter: A laser cutter designed for cutting fabric. Because it is so large, it can hide under your rug when not in use.](https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter)

[3D printed mirror array | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191918)
[bencbartlett/3D-printed-mirror-array: 3D-printable hexagonal mirror array capable of reflecting sunlight into arbitrary patterns](https://github.com/bencbartlett/3D-printed-mirror-array)

## reinventing

[Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29507458)
[Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware](https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/)

[davidhampgonsalves/life-dashboard: E-Ink based dashboard for every day life](https://github.com/davidhampgonsalves/life-dashboard)

[An Open-Source Espresso | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320729)
[Enjoy An Open-Source Espresso | Hackaday](https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/enjoy-an-open-source-espresso/)

[Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022797)
[Embedded Engineering : Making Opensource USB C industrial camera with Interchangeable C mount lens, Interchangeable MIPI Sensor with Lattice Crosslink NX FPGA and Cypress FX3 USB 3.0 controller](https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-industrial-camera-c-mount-fpga-imx-mipi-usb-3-crosslinknx.html)

[IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576285)
[IBM open sources $300* fully-functional LEGO®microscope design | by Inside IBM Research | Medium](https://ibm-research.medium.com/ibm-open-sources-300-fully-functional-lego-microscope-design-248a6cdc81bf)

[My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435908)
[My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar](https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-loves-planes-so-i-built)
[My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094288)
[My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar](https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-still-loves-planes-so)

[Initial V: A BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth keyboard for use with Vim | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35004828)
[GitHub - tenderlove/initial-v: It's a BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth Keyboard that you use with Vim](https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v)

[Battery-free Game Boy (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35077859)
[Free The Game Boy](https://www.freethegameboy.info/)

[Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787838)
[Zeus WPI | Repurposing e-waste: turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer](https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/22-23/repurposing_ewaste/)

[Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501073)
[Switch Lite Boardview](https://usoldering.com/switch-lite/)

[I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428491)
[I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious - MacStories](https://www.macstories.net/stories/i-used-a-game-boy-camera-for-facetime-video-calls-in-ipados-17-and-it-was-glorious/)

["You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?" | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33738462)
[electrical - Is white wire with grey stripes positive or negative wire? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange](https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/252038/is-white-wire-with-grey-stripes-positive-or-negative-wire/252050#252050)

[Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36249671)
[Mechanical Apple Watch From Real E-Waste Apple Watch : 46 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables](https://www.instructables.com/Mechanical-Apple-Watch-From-Real-E-Waste-Apple-Wat/)