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I bought a bunch of 'smart' devices. AI was able to hack most of them
points · traction gained Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Oct 19, 17:59 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Oct 12, 17:59 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 3points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in HDWR this week
- #6of 22 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #202of 993 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 11.1%2/18 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 1Oct 12, 18:53 UTC
- Last reading
- 3Oct 17, 13:13 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 115h
Launch-day race · #26 of 141 Show HN launches on 2026-10-12
- #24Foretype4 points
- #25Ramet4 points
- #26I bought a bunch of 'smart' devices. AI was able to hack most of them3 points
- #27Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B3 points
- #28Lemma, an IDE for reading mathematics (macOS, open source)3 points
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