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Testing the Raspberry Pi 500's new mechanical keyboard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 08:27:46

Instead of a traditional review of a new Pi product, I thought I'd split things up on my blog, and write two separate posts; this one about the Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard, and a separate post about hacking in an eGPU on the Pi 500+, for a massive uplift in gaming performance and local LLMs. The Raspberry Pi 500+ was announced today, sells for $200, and adds on the following over what was present in the regular Pi 500: Built-in M.2 NVMe SSD (256GB, 2230-size Pi branded drive) in a 2280-s

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RPi 500 arrives with mechanical switches, RGB LED backlit keys

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 00:17:49

Raspberry Pi 500+ is a premium version of the original Raspberry Pi 500, complete with 16GB RAM, pre-installed 256GB SSD, Gateron mechanical switches, low-profile changeable keycaps, programmable RGB LED backlighting and more! Raspberry Pi 500+ is a premium computer built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, redefining the compact PC experience for power users and enthusiasts. Powered by the same quad-core 64-bit ARM processor and RP1 I/O controller found in Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 50

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Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 19:17:03

Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with programmable firmware. Your fingers will thank you. I don’t normally review things here, as I find that it’s outside the realm of the blog, but I want to talk about the ZSA Moonland

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Raspberry Pi 500+ puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 11:16:04

The Raspberry Pi 500 (and 400) systems are versions of the Raspberry Pi built for people who use the Raspberry Pi as a general-purpose computer rather than a hobbyist appliance. Now the company is leaning into that even more with the Raspberry Pi 500+, an amped-up version of the keyboard computer with 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, a 256GB NVMe SSD instead of microSD storage, and a fancier keyboard with mechanical switches, replaceable keycaps, and individually programmable RGB LEDs. The computer

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Hell yeah, I want a Gundam keyboard with Topre switches

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-09-30 18:58:10

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Japanese keyboard brand Realforce is teaming up with the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and releasing four limited edition mechanical keyboards inspired by popular Gundam designs. The four keyboards are based on the Z Gundam and Hyaku Shiki from Zeta

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Hell yeah, I want a Gundam keyboard with topre switches

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-09-30 23:58:10

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Japanese keyboard maker Realforce is teaming up with the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and releasing four limited edition mechanical keyboards inspired by popular Gundam designs. The four keyboards are based on the Z Gundam and Hyaku Shiki from Zeta

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My new favorite PC accessory has infinite battery life and a host of productivity features

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-02 15:51:00

Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ Keyboard ZDNET's key takeaways Logitech's Slim Solar keyboard is available now for $99. It's wireless and light-powered, pairs with three devices at once, and has customizable action keys. It's ultimately a pretty standard keyboard, and the "laptop-style" design might feel too shallow for some users. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Logitech's latest keyboard is about as easy as you can get. It's wireless, universally com

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Remedy has a big FBC: Firebreak update aimed at turning things around

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-02 15:00:00

The new Crisis Board replaces the old Job Board and presents curated Crises to play, making FBC: Firebreak feel more dynamic, less predictable, and closer to its first-responder fantasy. At any given time, 4-6 Crises are active globally, ranging from full runs to shorter Jobs or Corrupted Jobs, each with randomized rewards, objectives, and length. The Crisis Board refreshes every 30 minutes. Crises in Zones 1-2 have streamlined requirements and can occasionally swap in unique Alternative Objec

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The latest Raspberry Pi is a computer in a satisfying mechanical keyboard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 01:27:26

TL;DR The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus has been launched, offering a Raspberry Pi computer inside a mechanical keyboard. Other upgrades include RGB lighting, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD via an M.2 slot. The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus is available at a starting price of $200. The Raspberry Pi 400 was an intriguing release back in 2020, as it was the first official Raspberry Pi computer built into a keyboard. This effectively enabled an all-in-one PC experience. We’ve since seen the Raspberry Pi 500, and

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Find SF parking cops

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:06:07

Officers Leaderboard How does this work?

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I tried Logitech's infinite battery-life keyboard, and it's made AA batteries obsolete for me

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-04 19:10:00

Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ Keyboard ZDNET's key takeaways Logitech's Slim Solar keyboard is available now for $99. It's wireless and light-powered, pairs with three devices at once, and has customizable action keys. It's ultimately a pretty standard keyboard, and the "laptop-style" design might feel too shallow for some users. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Logitech's latest keyboard is about as easy as you can get. It's wireless, universally com

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Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-04 19:05:19

Google’s latest AI project ventures into Pinterest’s territory, as the company announced the launch of Mixboard, software that enables anyone to create AI-powered mood boards. The service competes with Pinterest’s collage feature, where users create mood boards using their favorite Pins and other images. With Mixboard, however, there’s no need to have an established image collection to pull ideas from. Instead, users can start their own project using text prompts to have AI fill in the ideas.

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Logitech's new keyboard can be recharged by any kind of light

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:00:19

Logitech has launched the Signature Slim Solar+ K980, a new solar-powered keyboard that you don't need to put under the sun whenever it runs low on battery. The company says it can use "light from any light source to stay charged and ready to use" and that you can use it in complete darkness for up to four months once it's fully charged. As long as the light source reaches 200 lux in brightness, which is considered dim lighting during daytime, it can charge the keyboard. "Even the need to think

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Logitech launches a new Solar-powered slim wireless keyboard for Mac users

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-05 12:30:00

Today, Logitech is announcing its new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard, a slim wireless keyboard for Mac. Despite its normal looking design, it actually charges entirely via solar, so there’s no need to recharge it. It’ll be available for purchase today for $99. You might wonder, does it being solar mean it needs to be next to a window with direct sunlight? Well, actually: no! The Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard recharges using desk lamps and any sort of artificial light you have availab

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I threw out my AA batteries after using Logitech's new solar-powered keyboard

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-05 13:01:59

Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ Keyboard ZDNET's key takeaways Logitech's Slim Solar keyboard is available now for $99. It's wireless and light-powered, pairs with three devices at once, and has customizable action keys. It's ultimately a pretty standard keyboard, and the "laptop-style" design might feel too shallow for some users. View now at Logitech Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Logitech's latest keyboard is about as easy as you can get. It's wireless, universally c

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Logitech Signature Solar Slim+ K980 Keyboard Review: See the Light

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-10-05 13:01:00

Solar panels have long been used in consumer tech, from Garmin smartwatches and TV remotes to even a laptop. I’ve always wondered why there hasn't been a greater push for them. It’s free power. What’s not to like? Earlier panels may not have been as efficient, but that's no longer the case. Logitech is no stranger to solar technology. It first made a solar-powered keyboard 15 years ago, the K750, and now the time is ripe for a successor: the Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ K980. Like the origina

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Google’s Mixboard is an AI moodboard builder

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-06 03:30:59

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is launching a new AI concepting tool that lets you create moodboards to explore design ideas. The Mixboard Google Labs experiment gives users an open canvas to create projects from pre-populated board templates or text prompts using Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The experimental tool is available through public beta in the US. The format is visually similar to platforms like FigJam or Adobe’s Fir

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OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 02:54:51

Following our review of their RV2 RISC-V board, OrangePi has offered us to review one of their latest ARM64 based hardware, the OrangePi 5 Ultra. This is currently their highest specs ARM64 SBC. So what can we expect from the OrangePi Pi 5 Ultra board ? Let’s go through the specs first. Specs The board is fairly small in size, very close to what you get with the Raspberry Pi. Feature Specifications Master Chip Rockchip RK3588 (8nm LP process) CPU • 8-core 64-bit processor • 4 Cortex-A76 and

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We’re living in a golden age of affordable mechanical keyboards

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-07 11:30:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The mechanical keyboard world has undergone a renaissance. Thanks to increased competition and commoditized tech, features that used to be exclusive to limited-run DIY boards in the $300-plus range just a few years ago are now available in prebuilt

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Airport disruptions in Europe caused by a ransomware attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 07:24:19

The disruptions over the weekend at several major European airports were caused by a ransomware attack targeting the check-in and boarding systems. Among the airports suffering technical difficulties are Heathrow in London, Brussels Airport, and Brandenburg in Berlin. Cork and Dublin airports in Ireland also experienced difficulties, but the impact was minor. The attack started on Friday night, according to Brussels Airport, and targeted “Collins Aerospace, the external provider of check-in an

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Mentra (YC W25) is hiring to build smart glasses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 03:01:04

We’re building the OS for smart glasses because we believe glasses are the next personal computer. This year we launched MentraOS, graduated Y Combinator, and raised an $8M seed round to bring smart glasses software and hardware to market. We're a small team (~11 people) shipping thousands of our first pair of smart glasses in December. We need help in engineering (build smart glasses), design (design glasses interfaces), and growth (make glasses go viral). Apply on the job board or if you d

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iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it’s mostly battery

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 07:25:18

As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into a fairly consistent design for iPhones, but the new design of the iPhone Air offered an opportunity for compelling observations. Many of the important components—including the entire logic board—are clustered up at the top of the phone, while the majority of its middle and body house a battery. iF

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Save $36 on a Cool, Compact Hall Effect Keyboard

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-08 19:10:01

Looking for a compact keyboard with a unique twist? The Keychron Q1 HE (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is currently marked down over $35 on Amazon, and comes with Hall Effect switches, a rare offering that adds a ton of functionality to your keyboard. Think of a keyboard switch like light switches. They have a fixed point where they activate, and all they can report is whether they're in one of two states. Hall effect switches are more like light dimmer knobs. They know exactly where they currently ar

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Mentra (YC W25) Is Hiring to build smart glasses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 23:01:04

We’re building the OS for smart glasses because we believe glasses are the next personal computer. This year we launched MentraOS, graduated Y Combinator, and raised an $8M seed round to bring smart glasses software and hardware to market. We're a small team (~11 people) shipping thousands of our first pair of smart glasses in December. We need help in engineering (build smart glasses), design (design glasses interfaces), and growth (make glasses go viral). Apply on the job board or if you d

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Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:33:37

Since July, the state of Oklahoma has been consumed by important investigative questions, including: Why did naked women appear on a state-owned TV set during an official Board of Education meeting? Was someone in the room inadvertently streaming pornography from a personal device to the TV? Will anyone be prosecuted for what happened? Were the board members who complained about the video directed by the governor to "lie about me," as the state's pugnacious, hard-right Superintendent of Educat

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Gboard beta reveals ‘flick to symbol’ gesture and several more upcoming features (Update)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:59:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Gboard beta includes references to features such as “flick keys to enter symbols,” which could mimic the iPad’s quick symbol access method. The “Password number row” feature could allow for dynamically displaying the number key, restricting it to only during password entry to preserve space on compact devices. Google could also be upgrading the upcoming Writing Tools feature to let users generate text within the keyboard app itself. Update

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The best ergonomic keyboards for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 10:01:26

A simple experiment can tell you whether an ergonomic keyboard could be more comfortable for you: With your elbows hugged into your sides, bring your thumbs to touch in front of you. Now angle your elbows slightly outward and separate your hands. If the latter position feels better, you may appreciate the design of an ergonomic keyboard. These boards split, tilt and/or angle the keys in so your shoulders and chest feel more open and your forearms and wrists stay aligned. Some ergonomic keyboa

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Seeking 2027 Editors in Chief

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-14 01:00:26

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 17 September 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), known for producing trusted content in computer science and engineering, seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief (EIC) for several of its leading publications. EIC terms begin on 1 January 2027 and are for two years, pending reappointment for an additional two years, unless noted otherwise below. The application deadline is 1 March 2026. Applications should be submitted online through the EIC Search Ap

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Report: Apple inches closer to releasing an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-16 03:30:37

At multiple points over many years, Apple executives have taken great pains to point out that they think touchscreen Macs are a silly idea. But it remains one of those persistent Mac rumors that crops up over and over again every couple of years, from sources that are reliable enough that they shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Today’s contribution comes from supply chain analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who usually has some insight into what Apple is testing and manufacturing. Kuo says that touchscreen

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Repeat creepy meat problems at Boar’s Head plants draw congressional scrutiny

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:11:39

"The totality of these issues demonstrate a repeated pattern of food safety negligence that jeopardized Americans’ public health, and sadly, lives were lost," the lawmakers wrote in the letter. While calling the ongoing, repeated problems "appalling," they said they were "less than confident" that the Jarratt plant could safely reopen. "It seems your company continues to show a disregard for food safety and for the public health of the American people," they wrote. The letter was addressed to

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Latest Tech News

Testing the Raspberry Pi 500's new mechanical keyboard

RPi 500 arrives with mechanical switches, RGB LED backlit keys

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

Raspberry Pi 500+ puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

Hell yeah, I want a Gundam keyboard with Topre switches

Hell yeah, I want a Gundam keyboard with topre switches

My new favorite PC accessory has infinite battery life and a host of productivity features

Remedy has a big FBC: Firebreak update aimed at turning things around

The latest Raspberry Pi is a computer in a satisfying mechanical keyboard

Find SF parking cops

I tried Logitech's infinite battery-life keyboard, and it's made AA batteries obsolete for me

Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard

Logitech's new keyboard can be recharged by any kind of light

Logitech launches a new Solar-powered slim wireless keyboard for Mac users

I threw out my AA batteries after using Logitech's new solar-powered keyboard

Logitech Signature Solar Slim+ K980 Keyboard Review: See the Light

Google’s Mixboard is an AI moodboard builder

OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse

We’re living in a golden age of affordable mechanical keyboards

Airport disruptions in Europe caused by a ransomware attack

Mentra (YC W25) is hiring to build smart glasses

iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it’s mostly battery

Save $36 on a Cool, Compact Hall Effect Keyboard

Mentra (YC W25) Is Hiring to build smart glasses

Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service

Gboard beta reveals ‘flick to symbol’ gesture and several more upcoming features (Update)

The best ergonomic keyboards for 2025

Seeking 2027 Editors in Chief

Report: Apple inches closer to releasing an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro

Repeat creepy meat problems at Boar’s Head plants draw congressional scrutiny

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