Show HN: Micro web framework for low-resource systems – live example on ESP8266 (opens in new tab)

this kind of thing gives me hope that Google could be replicated on a low budget

It can run FreeRTOS, the Espressif SDK has an example and there's even a nice open source project around it too: https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos

there are a couple of javascript environments running on it, as well as lua, so it has managed to turn into something that can easily be IoT ready.

There is a firmware to run lua directly on the esp8266: https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware

And ESP8266 is now supported by the Arduino IDE. See https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

I was told the core team of esp8266 are all ex-broadcom wifi designers.

I bought one as well although I didn't do anything yet, would you mind share what you did/recommend doing? I was thinking to make a temperature sensor monitoring device, as I have an arduino that is doing the job now

Where do you get them for $2?

buy a huzzah from adafruit, it breaks everything out, and is much more tolerant than the board itself.

couple it with a small breadboard and an mb102, and you're good to go.

Onthe software side, the Arduino programming environment now supports the ESP8266. This makes it very easy to start playing.

One hint - to program, reboot with the programming pin (GPIO0) grounded, but take it back to 3.3V before you start programming. That took me a couple of hours to figure out.

This reboot is forced, we had over 3k requests with no hanging of whatsoever. It just helps when traffic is huge. This particular chip (serving linked website) is running at 80Mhz.

Thank you!

It's explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806904

We've been running a series of experiments to try to mitigate the randomness of what achieves liftoff from /newest. We started working on this because many users complained that good stories were getting ignored, and we looked closely and found that this was true. Below are links to a few comments I've posted about this over the last year, if anyone's interested. The next experiment will probably be to add a profile setting that people can turn on to let the software repost their story at a good time, rather than having to get an email invitation—although to judge from the feedback we've been getting, people seem to like the emails.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140