Hacker News: SuperMouse

New comment by SuperMouse in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

SuperMouse — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:30 +0000

Tenda has good support among OpenWRT.

New comment by SuperMouse in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

SuperMouse — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:51:15 +0000

Lots of these machines are dynamically created and provisioned depending on load factors nowadays.

The days of manually setting up servers in hyperscaling-environments are long long gone.

Example: Your GitLab CICD needs Runners. They are dynamically requested "somewhere in our cloud somwhere in the world" and then spun up and configures fully automatically. No human touches this stuff anymore.

New comment by SuperMouse in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

SuperMouse — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:31:52 +0000

Our freaky network admins rolled it out in our global corpo.

Was fun seeing IPv6 running for a few days without problems.

New comment by SuperMouse in "State of Homelab 2026"

SuperMouse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:31:57 +0000

Ionos (VPS XS+)

1 Core with 512MB RAM combined with Wireguard easily shuffles a few GBit/s.

New comment by SuperMouse in "State of Homelab 2026"

SuperMouse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:37:08 +0000

For me it's a Intel n100 box with Proxmox. Auto Updates (without auto reboot) fully activated). It just works.

For accessing my home network I've rented a 1€-VPS that acts as a Wireguard connection hub.

New comment by SuperMouse in "Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down"

SuperMouse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:43:06 +0000

Maybe he could offer this "as a service" using LoRaWAN and a cheap Mikrotik basestation? As a backend Chirpstack can be used.

New comment by SuperMouse in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

SuperMouse — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:54:05 +0000

Not for 2400MHz LoRa.

For 433/868/915 they are great.

New comment by SuperMouse in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

SuperMouse — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:53:25 +0000

lol. 10.000km with a few bits of fixed-structure payload you mean.

Encoding basics

New comment by SuperMouse in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

SuperMouse — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:20:12 +0000

I'm currently thinkering of building a balloon with a 2.4GHz LoRa transmitter (SX128x) and a low-power STM32U microcontroller.

Why?

- You can repurpose 2.4GHz Wifi gear opening many doors

- You can easily include volunteers dumping data from HF into a IP sink for telemetry. TTGO offers boards with 2.4GHz LoRa.

- Theoretically you still can add a "low rate" 868MHz/433MHz and a "high rate" 2.4GHz for transmitting pictures and other stuff more quickly.

- BOM friendly. As the balloon might get lost you have to plan a bit for costs.

New comment by SuperMouse in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

SuperMouse — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:51:45 +0000

I've never seen a bigger network with Reticulum in the wild. And I'm deep into Mesh stuff with several local communities.

One of the main reasons of the communities not jumping onto the ship was that it's mostly a one-man-project and most of its Git changes are "Update" "Better Version" "Update" "Cleanup" which makes it basically impossible to track changes.

New comment by SuperMouse in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

SuperMouse — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:55:23 +0000

I've bought hundreds of Puya's for my lab stock on LCSC. Neat little things!

New comment by SuperMouse in "macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks"

SuperMouse — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:26:50 +0000

I have at least 10 neighbours on each 2.4GHz channel.

New comment by SuperMouse in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

SuperMouse — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:19:23 +0000

Any interesting changes regarding BLE Meshing?

We evaluated it BT5.x and the performance was not overly satisfying.

New comment by SuperMouse in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

SuperMouse — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:02:43 +0000

The Padauk and Nyquest are barely useable. They are highly specialized devices (often ROM-only).

Cheapest "general purpose" microcontrollers that have enough features for good developer experience are Puya and WCH.

If you are a seasoned STM32 developer you will get used to them within a day.

Examples:

https://download.py32.org/Datasheet/en/PY32F071_Datasheet_Re...

https://arvidtek.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CH32V006DS0-...

New comment by SuperMouse in "ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones"

SuperMouse — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:47:49 +0000

LTE/5G is available on the low bands (700/800MHz) in Europe for a long long time now.

I'm running LTE-only with zero problems for 2 years now without a single coverage gap. Even in the rural parts.

New comment by SuperMouse in "European Union Public Licence (EUPL)"

SuperMouse — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:14:37 +0000

Yes. All my OS projects have a strong Copyleft-clause.

Cannot stand companies stealing stuff and giving nothing back.

Thanks god they hate Copyleft licenses like the plaque.

New comment by SuperMouse in "European Union Public Licence (EUPL)"

SuperMouse — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:39:00 +0000

If you develop hardware also have a look at the "CERN Open Hardware Licence"

New comment by SuperMouse in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

SuperMouse — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:14:00 +0000

Xilinx and Altera want to talk to you :-)

New comment by SuperMouse in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

SuperMouse — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:06:52 +0000

Most FPGA vendor tools can be used from the console. But they are very fat.

New comment by SuperMouse in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

SuperMouse — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:04:09 +0000

There's also ING in Germany. They are super famous.

They are not called Ing Diba anymore.