Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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What's the best hackable smart TV?
https://cani.rootmy.tv
https://cani.rootmy.tv/
https://gist.github.com/d4kine/b2458cc9d693d7d36193be02470946c5
https://github.com/satgit62/How-to-Install-and-set-up-Ambilight-on-LG-webOS
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/braviatv/
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/tv-thats-not-necs-pi-powered-55-display
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-epPf7D8oMk
https://pro-bravia.sony.net/develop/app/getting-started/index.html
https://repo.webosbrew.org/apps/org.webosbrew.custom-screensaver/
https://rootmy.tv/
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
https://youtu.be/Qtve0u3GJ9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVpABCxiDaU
Build Your Own LLM?
https://www.amazon.com/Build-Large-Language-Model-Scratch/dp/1633437167
https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-from-scratch
https://mathstodon.xyz/@empty/115088095028020763
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Does anyone want to take on the payment processing networks with me?
https://joincolossus.com/episode/rampell-visa-the-original-protocol-business/
https://paylias.xyz/
https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PYMNTS-Real-Time-Payments-World-Map-May-2025.pdf
Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?
https://affectablesleep.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_5/10
https://www.icare-world.com/us/
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade77.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgupgrade.html
Why aren't wet labs more automated?
https://www.asimov.press/p/making-the-modern-laboratory
Great Firewall in Iran?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan
Why is software quality collapsing?
https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss/%3CZ4p_GHsw5arWGlMc@arendt%3E
https://littlegreenviper.com/various/testing-harness-vs-unit/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you roll your own agent or use a framework?
https://github.com/aurelio-labs/graphai
Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2160672/build-portals-with-jetspeed.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/in-process-server-threading-issues
https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-did-the-%C3%BCber-protocols-fail-e7f10b4a996a?source=friends_link&sk=0f09831b1cfe972472a7df8597b1a113
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/lifecycle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468477
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
What do you wish existed? (October 2025)
https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOoRnv3lA0k&t=1s
Career Burnout Looking for Options
https://juliacameronlive.com/book/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity