Hacker News: jphastingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jphastingsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:24:21 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jphastings in "We need a federation of forges"]]>Oh that sounds very cool! Where can we follow your progress?

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:59:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959563jphastingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959563<![CDATA[New comment by jphastings in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"]]>I pulled apart my Yoto mini! I found an unencrypted ESP32, and managed to pull the firmware off it too.

My reverse engineering skills are limited, so my journey has paused there for now, but I would _love_ to be able to map out all the hardware & write open source firmware for it.

The Yoto set up is very smart (the NFC cards hold a Yoto URL, which responds with a JSON document describing the music & links to MP3s on S3, or m3u files for internet radio).

The only downside is that the Yoto will _only_ follow what I presume are allow-listed URLs, and has SSL certs for those URLs baked in, so if the company ever goes under the devices would lose almost all functionality, without new firmware.

I want to support Yoto as these devices are really great, but I’d also love to be able to drop my own URLs on cards and: - Play tracks from Plex like OP - Trigger lighting/mood changes with HomeAssistant as well as play an album - Play the music on network speakers (eg. Sonos), using the Yoto as the source

If anyone feels like they’d be interested in helping reverse engineer them, do reply!

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:33:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548309jphastingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548309https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548309<![CDATA[New comment by jphastings in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"]]>They’re a fantastic piece of kit! They have a Micro SD card internally and download the album/card on first use, then it can be used fully offline any time in the future. It’s a great trade off in my mind (though I’ll post one level up about how I wish it’d do even better here…)

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:21:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548242jphastingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548242<![CDATA[Show HN: Creating stub RESTful APIs from Swagger 2.0 docs]]>Article URL: http://swaggerific.io

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