[HN Gopher] It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
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       It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
        
       Author : FlyingSnake
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2025-04-28 15:02 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dmitrygr wrote:
       | 4 significant figures on weather temperature is kind of funny to
       | look at. Must be some very accurate forecasts
        
         | mobilemidget wrote:
         | I was just here to write the same thing :) imagine it being
         | 0.01 degrees too warm or cold
        
           | alnwlsn wrote:
           | Reminds me of those times I work with temperature sensors
           | which report in eighths of a degree. 3 decimal places to give
           | less than one decimal place of precision. You can round, but
           | somehow that doesn't feel right.
        
       | mahi_novice wrote:
       | Love this! Always fun to do stuff like this.
        
       | gitroom wrote:
       | lol i get weirdly obsessed with decimal places on stuff like this
       | too - makes me laugh every time.
        
       | mtlynch wrote:
       | > _I designed a backend API that collected the data in real-time
       | data and exported it as a PNG image._
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       | Does anyone know why in these Kindle modding dashboards, they
       | always generate the dashbard image on an external server? Why
       | isn't it possible to build all that functionality into an
       | executable on the Kindle itself? You've got a Linux environment,
       | so why can't you run all the logic locally?
        
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