Hacker News with Generative AI: Raspberry Pi

Is an Intel N100 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)
About one year ago, I bought an Intel N100 mini PC (specifically the GMKtec N100 NucBox G3) and compared it to the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB.
Raspberry Pi Pico audio player (blogspot.com)
For an index to all my stories click this text.After all the proceeding stories the time has come to build a complete stand-alone audio player with the Raspberry Pi Pico. The audio quality is not Hifi but it is really good !! Good enough as a player in your mancave, bedroom or even as a portable player. I have made a permanent setup and using it to play music and podcasts.
Windows 11 Arm VMs on a Raspberry Pi, with BVM (jeffgeerling.com)
With the release of a Windows 11 for Arm ISO, it's easier than ever to get an officially-supported install of Windows on many different Arm PCs—now including a Raspberry Pi.
Progress on Intel and Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
Nvidia GPUs have been running fine on Arm for a while now—I just upgraded the System76 Thelio Astra to an RTX 4080 Super and am testing it now.
Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices (github.com/abeisgoat)
Slime OS is an app launcher for the PicoVision (and soon other RP2040 and RP2350 devices). It was originally designed for the Slimedeck Zero, a mini cyberdeck project. However I hope to expand it to other devices and form factors.
The Raspberry Pi RP2040 Gets a Surprise Speed Boost, Unlocks an Official 200MHz (hackster.io)
Raspberry Pi has released a new version of its pico-sdk software development kit for the RP2040 and RP2350 microcontroller families — and it comes with a speed boost for the RP2040, bumping its maximum rated clock speed to 200MHz.
Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment (github.com/dwhinham)
A work-in-progress baremetal MIDI synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi 3 or above, based on Munt, FluidSynth and Circle.
Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio (tomshardware.com)
Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 (github.com/b4rtaz)
Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
uLisp: Raspberry Pi RP2350 Boards (ulisp.com)
The RP2350 processor is Raspberry Pi's successor to their RP2040 processor, and it has the following key features:
It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi (github.com/dwhinham)
A work-in-progress baremetal MIDI synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi 3 or above, based on Munt, FluidSynth and Circle. Turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated emulation of the famous multi-timbre sound module used by countless classic MS-DOS, PC-98 and Sharp X68000 games!
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi [video] (youtube.com)
ReflectOS: A configurable and extensible smart mirror operating system (reflect-os.github.io)
The approachable, configurable, and extensible Open Source Operating System for your Raspberry Pi smart mirror project.
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi (youtube.com)
DeepSeek R1 Runs at 200 Tokens per Second on Raspberry Pi (nextbigfuture.com)
Experimenters have had overnight tests confirming they have OPEN SOURCE DeepSeek R1 running at 200 tokens per second on a NON-INTERNET connected Raspberry Pi.
Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency? (wired.com)
In olden times, people dug holes in the ground to look for gold. They called it mining. But why is gold valuable, anyway? Well, mostly because humans decided it was valuable. Yeah, but why gold? Well, one cool thing about element 79 is that it doesn't interact with the oxygen in the air, so it stays shiny all the time. Also, it's rare enough to be a status symbol.
Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi (smallstep.com)
TL;DR In this tutorial, we're going to build a tiny, standalone, online Certificate Authority (CA) that will mint TLS certificates and is secured with a YubiKey. It will be an internal ACME server on our local network (ACME is the same protocol used by Let's Encrypt). The YubiKey will securely store the CA private keys and sign certificates, acting as a cheap alternative to a Hardware Security Module (HSM).
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi (mirawelner.com)
As of the time of writing this, the Raspberry Pi 5 has recently been released. Some people are buying it excitedly, while others think that its value over previous models doesn't warrant the price increase. In any event, many people will be implementing various projects on their new (or old) Pis.
Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge Results Announced (tomshardware.com)
Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
Das Blinkenlights (rodyne.com)
Probably the only German word I know, and, quite by accident, became the title of my last hobby project, a project to give some bling to my boring local RPI-based rack server without impacting the power budget too much.
Lego Retro Radio #10334 – play your own music using a Raspberry Pi (sean.co.uk)
Discover how to play your own music on the Lego Retro Radio (10334) set by putting a Raspberry Pi computer inside. My project description includes Python code you can use to play your own music.
Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120? (jeffgeerling.com)
That is indeed a puzzling question, brought about by Raspberry Pi's introduction of the newest Raspberry Pi 5 model, with 16 GB of RAM.
Aedan Cullen Cracks the Raspberry Pi RP2350's Security Subsystem Wide Open (hackster.io)
Engineer Aedan Cullen has come up with a way to break through the security subsystem on Raspberry Pi's latest RP2350 microcontroller — and looks to be in with a shot at winning the company's capture the flag competition as a result.
Inky Frame 7.3″ is a 7-color ePaper display powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (cnx-software.com)
The Inky Frame 7.3″ is a Pico 2 W ePaper display featuring a 7.3-inch E Ink screen with 800 x 480 resolution and 7-color support.
Signalens' SignalSDR Pro Is a Raspberry Pi-Like High-Performance SDR (hackster.io)
Hong Kong-based Signalens is preparing to launch a crowdfunding campaign for the SignalSDR Pro, a high-performance software-defined radio (SDR) unit in a Raspberry Pi-like footprint.
Ask HN: Will captive portals be in jeopardy due to browser policies? (ycombinator.com)
It seems all the currents ways of configuring Raspberry Pi wifi through the phone are based in captive portals.
Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade to the RPi 400 (phoronix.com)
Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500 as the successor and now built around the Raspberry Pi 5. For $90 USD this keyboard computer is a very versatile and convenient compact Linux PC.
Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted for Linux Kernel Review (phoronix.com)
The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers.
Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com/garyexplains)
Piccolo OS is a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico. It is designed primarily as a teaching tool. It demonstrates the fundamentals of a co-operative multitasking OS and the Arm Cortex-M0+.